Example sentences of "[modal v] only [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many potential customers may only require parts of the information system , a decision was made that only complete systems could be sold . |
| 2 | The criteria adopted by the Court of Appeal in Newell ( 1980 ) were that courts should only take account of characteristics with which the provocation was concerned ; permanent characteristics such as race and , probably , religion may be taken into account , but transient conditions such as intoxication and exhaustion may not . |
| 3 | It is applied by adults who read a wide variety of material with a wide variety of ‘ value ’ ( the newspaper headlines , a new best-selling novel , the horoscope for the day , financial annual reports , personality gossip , a Jane Austen novel , holiday brochures to exotic places , hints on cooking rice ) but feel that children should only read things of lasting value and of clearly-identified worth . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 'll only take hold of this damn bag so I can go I will . |
| 5 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 6 | Fifty years ago , Debussy fans could only buy records of this or that piano piece from the Préludes , Estampes , Children 's Corner and so on , and I remember my pleasure as a child in acquiring HMV 's 12-inch shellac disc of Rubinstein playing the Prélude from Pour le piano ( labelled as ‘ Prelude in A minor ’ ) coupled with Ravel 's ‘ Forlane ’ from Le tombeau de Couperin . |
| 7 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 8 | The machine could only take material of a certain size — not a whole figure , for example — and so fragments were collaged together . |
| 9 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 10 | The ideal Socratic evening came about when one of the speakers was an out-and-out atheist , but sometimes the society could only find speakers of opposing viewpoints within the Christian fold . |
| 11 | In the case of an irremediable breach the landlord need only give notice of the nature of that breach and then proceed to forfeiture . |
| 12 | Of course not all social security benefits may be regarded as part of the remuneration package — e.g. maternity benefits to a single man — in which case the labour supply curve will only shift part of the way back to its original position . |
| 13 | The sack should be in certain Karrimor agents ' shops by now , priced £350 , but at present it will only fit people of average size or bigger — those who take , say , size 42–47 boots . |
| 14 | Originally it catered for pupils from 5 to 16 , but local reorganisation means that eventually the school will only accommodate children of secondary school age . |
| 15 | The field officer will only discover examples of pollution himself , however , when he engages in proactive enforcement , through regular surveillance by sampling or inspection or , if his suspicions are aroused , through spot checks . |
| 16 | But the offspring will only favour acts of altruism where the benefit exceeds the cost discounted by the figure we agreed . |
| 17 | First , whereas the implied terms relating to goods supplied under a contract of sale , or any other type of supply contract , are classified by statute as conditions , the implied term requiring work to be performed with reasonable skill and care will normally be an intermediate stipulation ( SGSA 1982 , s13 ) so that breach will only justify termination of the contract if the breach is serious or goes to the root of the contract . |
| 18 | You can make a selection of names to be included in the list so the computer will only display combinations of the selected names . |
| 19 | We recognise that MPG6 can only offer part of the solution to the serious problems of over-consumption endemic in our society at present . |
| 20 | We recognise that MPG6 can only offer part of the solution to the serious problems of over-consumption endemic in our society at present . |
| 21 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 22 | Paraphrases can only capture part of what these significances represent : A represents something like " things which children have to learn in order to communicate " ; B — " features of buildings ( grand and ecclesiastical ) " ; C — " features of buildings ( plain and domestic ) " ; D — " outdoor terrain for boys ' amusements " ; E — " grand architectural features " , and so on . |
| 23 | But of course grammatical modification can not account for the particulars of meaning which are signalled on particular occasions , Grammar can only denote degrees of generality . |
| 24 | In conclusion , the 1989 Children Act can only go part of the way towards changing the direction and ethos of child care in the nineties . |
| 25 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 26 | Thinking can only make use of the patterns we have acquired in the past . |
| 27 | Over-production led to the infamous butter mountains and ultimately set aside , which means that arable farmers here can only work 85% of their land . |
| 28 | That is the inevitable result of the doctrine which can only afford protection of the defendant at the risk or price of causing an injustice to the plaintiff . |
| 29 | But the Government clause which says Caldaire can only keep 35pc of any purchase price above £1.3m makes a move virtually impossible . |
| 30 | While a shareware Windows spell checker is available , you can only get hold of it in English . |