Example sentences of "only [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been SCOTVEC 's consistent view that centres can not only prepare students/trainees to the level of occupational competence , but can also model the requirements of the workplace . |
| 2 | Salisbury had remarked in 1911 that " whatever your own opinions , the Conservative party can only assimilate change gradually " , and this was certainly so in the case of personnel at the top . |
| 3 | It is financed by the film industry , and will only grant certificates to movies which it considers are within the limits of public acceptability . |
| 4 | Such an application can only be made with the leave of the court , and the court may only grant leave if it is satisfied , inter alia , that ‘ there is reasonable cause to believe that if the court 's inherent jurisdiction is not exercised with respect to the child he is likely to suffer significant harm : ’ see section 100(3) and ( 4 ) ( b ) . |
| 5 | Adoption of EC Commission proposals would only grant copyright protection to those databases which involved intellectual and creative effort in their compilation . |
| 6 | Here we can only paint answers with a broad brush , but a coherent picture is beginning to emerge . |
| 7 | Mauriac could only explain de Gaulle 's decision as the product of impatience . |
| 8 | As we have seen , congruence with ‘ verb bias ’ can facilitate role mapping directly , but it can only facilitate name mapping indirectly . |
| 9 | What we need is not so much a point irregularity such as a foreign atom , because that could only facilitate movement at one point , but rather a line defect which will allow the army of molecules , as it were , to sweep forward on a broad front . |
| 10 | All the best rock bands come out of art colleges , etc … and it 's still the case they find they can only reproduce music from Beethoven , Mozart , etc . |
| 11 | Whatever the answer is there is little doubt that improving the vegetation cover can only enhance productivity and improve the soil structure so that it is less susceptible to erosion and degradation . |
| 12 | And women have become more impatient with each other for allowing the divisions which men have created historically — class , racism and heterosexuality — to continue to divide us as women from finding ways of working politically that do not only liberate women but transform the systems of oppression themselves . |
| 13 | For financial periods beginning after 1 October 1991 , companies must also disclose the fees paid to auditors for non-audit work , although this will only cover services provided in the UK . |
| 14 | The police could only cover accidents , not doctors ' referrals . |
| 15 | The police could only cover accidents , not doctors referrals . |
| 16 | So do you think , then , that this policy could only cover people with an income . |
| 17 | If the three-day time limit is not complied with the certificate will only cover costs incurred after the date of issue . |
| 18 | Yet the value of such a ‘ special circumstances ’ doctrine is limited , since it would only cover insider dealing in face-to-face transactions and so provide no remedies to those dealing though impersonal stock exchange markets . |
| 19 | The control theory would only eliminate alcohol abuse if consumption were reduced to zero — an unrealistic proposition , as the prohibitionists in the United States found out earlier this century . |
| 20 | Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level . |
| 21 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 22 | Tell that to Mike Teague , who can only make money if he can work . |
| 23 | Personal spirituality can only make progress if it is in partnership with social spirituality . |
| 24 | But do n't go around being cross or you 'll only make enemies for yourself . |
| 25 | If we get involved , we might only make things worse . ’ |
| 26 | Irrespective of the cause of anxiety , punishing the horse will only make things worse . |
| 27 | ‘ That 'll only make things worse . |
| 28 | It 'll only make things that much harder for you . |
| 29 | ‘ You will only make things more painful for yourself later , and more pleasurable for me . ’ |
| 30 | The flashes of hostility between them could only make things worse . |