Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 2 | Viruses are carried in the seawater from sewage outfalls , and while some may only cause minor stomach upsets , others , including coxsachie and echo viruses , could lead to hepatitis , meningitis and quasi-paralytic disorders . |
| 3 | This may only reflect the nature and purpose of the law-codes , but it may also point to the undeveloped nature of institutionalised commerce or the manner in which such exchange was connected only with those who issued and administered the law . |
| 4 | Throwing money at the problem , however , is not the answer ; this may only create more difficulties for the environment . |
| 5 | For example , if a customer agreement discloses that the firm might match the transaction undertaken on behalf of the customer with the transaction undertaken on behalf of another customer , this may only protect the firm in the simple case where no conflict arises between the interests of the two customers . |
| 6 | This may only serve to aggravate matters further and undermine your role as a neutral . |
| 7 | Improved forensic science standards and public sector laboratories equally available to the defence and prosecution — this may only go part way to ensuring an equality of arms between the prosecution and defence , which is essential in an adversarial system . |
| 8 | However , this may only represent one side of the story . |
| 9 | Depending on the complexity of your operations this may only take a couple of man weeks and could be repeated at regular intervals to monitor progress . |
| 10 | It assumes administrative efficiency will suffice when this may only have the most limited of practical effects . |
| 11 | This may only cease on withdrawal of the drug . |
| 12 | Very often the vagina and part of the uterus can be separated into two parts by a fibrous partition and this may only come to light after difficulty when intercourse first takes place , or sometimes at the onset of pregnancy . |
| 13 | While one country may be geared up for credit cards with hole-in-the wall machines everywhere you look , another may only accept local currency or travellers cheques . |
| 14 | This should only happen as a last resort in exceptional circumstances and if it does , you should take legal advice as soon as possible . |
| 15 | For instance one may find marked relief from taking warm drinks which would make another feel much worse ; one may have a high fever and sweats whilst another has no fever at all ; one may be hot and want to be uncovered and in the fresh air whilst another is hot yet wants to be covered up to his chin ; one may wish to continue his work whilst another might only wish to lie down and die and so on . |
| 16 | This could only mean that , in time , India would attain a status equal to that of the white dominions . |
| 17 | This could only happen when the time was ripe , which would be when he was worthy . |
| 18 | The intention was that the College should benefit the economy , but this could only happen as science replaced practice , and as those with a real knowledge and love of chemistry began to apply it . |
| 19 | To Barth , this could only indicate that Bultmann was in effect taking the same path as their nineteenth-century forefathers . |
| 20 | It could have been provided as an additional barrier to odour , but this could only have been achieved by the use of waxed paper — as seen in the Lethieullier vault at Little Ilford , Essex — between the top of the sides of the coffin and the lid . |
| 21 | It seemed that this could only have happened by God 's grace and with his approval . |
| 22 | But this could only occur if the number of selective secondary school places was exactly the same as the number of service class children . |
| 23 | The British could only watch and hope , yet at the same time they provoked some American complaints that their instinctive reaction in an emergency was to look for a compromise . |
| 24 | Moreover if , as seemed likely , CO 2 was the dominant atmospheric constituent then the greenhouse effect of CO 2 could only maintain such temperatures if the column mass of atmospheric CO 2 was about 10 6 kg/m 2 . |
| 25 | In fact , there is a buffer between the program and the operating system , but this need only concern you when you are organising your program for maximum file access efficiency . |
| 26 | Anyone who doubts this need only glance at a profile of Peter Phillips , director of The Tallis Scholars , published in The New Yorker : |
| 27 | For many years afterwards I was naturally very wary of any dog and , although I soon learnt not to run away , as this would only make them run after me , I never willingly approached them . |
| 28 | This would only make for higher scores which ca n't be good for the game . |
| 29 | And it is no good trying to combat that by making the microphone ( " ear " ) more sensitive , since this would only make it more vulnerable to being damaged by the , albeit now slightly quieter , outgoing sounds ! |
| 30 | Because this cake mixture uses baking powder to make it rise rather than gradual incorporation of air while beating , make sure you do not overbeat the mixture or add more than the specified amount of baking powder — this would only serve to toughen the cake and make it heavy . |