Example sentences of "[v-ing] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are often process ‘ blind ’ , seeing only tasks and underestimating the importance of process aspects . |
| 2 | Out of it came an imperative on women , as well as men , not to be swayed by traditional culture and educational choice into seeing only obstacles to advancement . |
| 3 | Indeed , even by February 1989 when the first meetings with Jones took place , where Jones was claiming to see neutrons — a sure sign of fusion — Fleischmann and Pons were seeing only heat . |
| 4 | Suppose that , in a typical sexual species , a strain of parthenogenetic females arose , producing only daughters like themselves . |
| 5 | To be worthwhile , any such conference would have to be of sufficient weight so that it could have a decisive effect on the ‘ official ’ international conferences — several of which had already taken place with the express purpose of reviewing the treaty , but which had succeeded in producing only confusion and bitterness . |
| 6 | Like Helmut Newton before her , Rheims has experimented with those visual devices which seem to suggest pornography and danger , but which end up suggesting only titillation and glamour . |
| 7 | Then there are the affrine transformations , which destroy shape and size but maintain straightness and proportions in any line , as well as parallels ; and projective transformations which destroy shape , size , proportions and parallels , maintaining only straightness , as in perspective . |
| 8 | Again , therefore , Truman had to be satisfied with pursuing only parts of his reform programme . |
| 9 | Despite the persistence of huge environmental problems , Western donors and lending institutions are financing only projects that give a good return on investment and are expecting Eastern European countries to pay for much of the clean-up themselves . |
| 10 | The patient returned to eating only foods that had been shown to be safe . |
| 11 | Party chairman John Evans , backed by union leaders , wants a return to the tradition allowing only NEC members to speak from the platform . |
| 12 | In Britain , gene transplants like Carly 's have been limited by the ethics committee to operations which produce changes that will not be passed on to future generations — effectively allowing only treatments little different in ethical terms from ordinary organ transplants . |
| 13 | The law is far too complex to justify a policy of allowing only advice and assistance . |
| 14 | He will present MPs with three options — total deregulation , limited opening times , or allowing only shops selling ‘ emergency ’ supplies to open . |
| 15 | Dogmatic training techniques using only phonics or only sight vocabulary will result in restricted flexibility , and the processing of new or unfamiliar words will be impeded . |
| 16 | As the Navigator nudged Tormentum Malorum slowly nearer to the indicated zone , using only attitude jets , for Jaq a strange intuition of security began to percolate through the dread engendered by hulk and warp alike . |
| 17 | The first successful flour-manufacturing plant using only rollers was the Manchester mill established by Henry Simon in 1878 . |
| 18 | Each sector has been assumed to produce its final output using only capital and labour . |
| 19 | The idea is to be able to play melodies using only arpeggios , but not making them sound like arpeggios . |
| 20 | As yet you are using only variations of the first fifty millesimal potency with which you began , and this way you derive the maximum benefit from each potency in turn . |
| 21 | Of course , much music has been composed using only scale and chord patterns , and if they have rhythmic distinction we may still find them useful . |
| 22 | They could discuss the problems of skinning an animal , or scraping skins to make leather using only stone tools . |
| 23 | The " gilt only " scheme , which was advocated by workers in the United States , consists essentially of using only gilts for breeding . |
| 24 | For instance , using only components of the quartal chord D , G , C , F , we can move as follows , by abandoning the strict use of fourths without transposition , and using the notes in different groupings and in different registers : In spite of the abandoning of strict usages of harmony in fourths , it will be felt that in the above example the same harmonic mood persists throughout . |
| 25 | But what made him choose to devote himself to mathematics was his finding in 1795 of the criterion for a regular n-gon to be constructible using only compass and straightedge . |
| 26 | In some research projects carried out mainly in the library , using only documentary sources , there will obviously be no recourse to the use of survey techniques for collecting data . |
| 27 | We have already pointed out that atonal music can be written not by obscuring tonal structures but by ignoring conventional harmonies altogether and using only note-combinations which avoid the suggestion of tonalities . |
| 28 | From 24 June , a service was provided with Corporation cars running from West Croydon to Penge terminus and a service from West Croydon to the Crystal Palace , using only South Metropolitan cars , which had the track brakes demanded for Anerley Hill . |
| 29 | Hugh Flynn , Maintenance Fitter , received £50 for developing a machine that would strip waste yarn from used bobbins using only air pressure . |
| 30 | To restore the walls to their former glory they are being completely stripped and cleaned , with the plasterwork and paintings being reapplied , now using only material that will breathe . |