Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [verb] only [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The oxide contains about 60 per cent metallic tin , which is recovered only after the material is reduced in a smelter . ) |
| 2 | Tests revealed that the man — who is known only as ‘ John Smith ’ — could survive without injections of insulin . |
| 3 | It is broken only when his neighbour is injured and not before . |
| 4 | An alternative is that under conditions which are maximally unfavourable for plural reference , when a plural reference is made , it is made only because no strain exists in those ( rare ) cases . |
| 5 | It is binding only if there are good reasons to enable people to subject themselves to political authorities by their consent . |
| 6 | It is binding only if the conditions of the normal justification thesis are substantially met independently of the consent . |
| 7 | ‘ Much of the structure of the Constitution is now mere form ; it is tolerated only because in practice its form is no indication of the way it functions . ’ |
| 8 | Traditional civil-law interpretation would say that it is : the words amount to a demonstratio rather than a causa ; the testator is suggesting a means of satisfying the liability under trust rather than indicating that it is to arise only if the estate of Gaius Seius is entered . |
| 9 | Rather , in this context the word ‘ I ’ is idle , superfluous ; it is used only because Descartes is habituated to the use of ‘ I ’ in expressing his thoughts and feelings to other people . |
| 10 | It is used only if the origin of the report must be described in greater detail than is possible in the opening statement of the body . |
| 11 | Until the mid-730s he is described only as king of the Mercians but in an important charter of 736 concerning the granting of land in the territory of the Hwicce , the oldest Mercian original text to survive , Aethelbald is variously ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of all the provinces which are known by the general name South Angles ’ , ‘ king of the South Angles ’ and ‘ king of Britain' ( CS 154 : S 89 ) . |