Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 2 | … the obligation [ entails ] two principal elements ; first , the existence of a relationship giving access , directly or indirectly , to information intended to be available only for a corporate purpose and not for the personal benefit of anyone , and second , the inherent , unfairness involved where a party takes advantage of such information knowing it is unavailable to those with whom he is dealing . |
| 3 | Tickets are likely to be available only on the day . |
| 4 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 5 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 6 | Lysozyme appeared to be effective only against more or less harmless micro-organisms , and indeed no organism was found more sensitive than the curious M. lysodeikticus . |
| 7 | All these can act against only the aquatic stages , that is to say they are ‘ larvicides ’ and , as I have already emphasised , malaria control by such an attack is likely to be effective only in limited situations . |
| 8 | Acceptance of these presuppositions would seem to be possible only on the basis of faith , and this point is made by Gandhi when he says |
| 9 | Such an agreement is an agreement in writing between a person providing advocacy or litigation services and the client , which is not concerned with certain matrimonial and children proceedings ; provides for that person 's fees and expenses , or part of them , to be payable only in specified circumstances ; complies with any requirements imposed by the Lord Chancellor ; and is not a contentious business agreement . |
| 10 | In practice , however , simple majorities were to be applicable only in six very minor and procedural areas . |
| 11 | This last objection can be put in a form applicable to many of the theories discussed in this book : that it may be a mistake to try to define the essential features of literature in absolute and objective terms ; that such definitions as one may devise are likely to be relevant only to certain kinds or certain features of literature , or merely constitute one among a number of possible ways of approaching the subject . |
| 12 | Also , it will show that we are not so parochial as to be concerned only with money and the minutiae of City affairs . |
| 13 | There are areas of education in which boys do badly ( modern languages , for example ) ; yet liberal feminists tend to be concerned only with the areas where girls are less successful , such as science and mathematics . |
| 14 | In the second phase Western practitioners try out their ideas in other cultures and many new insights emerge by comparisons and contrasts , in particular it becomes clear that some of the principles thought to be valid for ‘ man ’ turn out to be valid only for man in Western cultures . |
| 15 | His decision to drop Hughes to see if McClair could recover his striking form of the season before last proved to be popular only with Palace . |
| 16 | When sued , the defendant claimed to be liable only for the cost of the seed because of a clause in their contract to that effect . |
| 17 | It is not enough for a business to be responsive only to its present environment . |
| 18 | Age at operation was found to be significant only for the adenoidectomy only group , with those who were older at operation facing a minor disadvantage ( about 2 dB ) between three and five years postoperatively . |
| 19 | The reason why at present independence is thought to be achievable only by involving a different force is that investigations of police operations typically involve suspicion of malpractice . |
| 20 | Answering the question as to the state in which this love can best be practised , Rolle points to an inner quietness which seems for him to be achievable only in literal solitude and constrained stability : " er Goddes trone , dwelles still in a stede , and er noght abowte rennand " [ trone : throne ; a stede : one place ] ( 10.116.258 – 9 ) . |
| 21 | As one farmer put it , ‘ Time allows me to be interested only in what is going to affect me on my farm — making up the numbers is not the answer ’ . |
| 22 | For a while they are ‘ egocentric ’ — so self-centred that they seem to be interested only in themselves and their own point of view . |
| 23 | The above effects are likely to be important only at or below the glass transition temperature but they do not seem to have been analysed to date , nor is there yet a molecular interpretation of the frictional forces between chains arising from these and other causes . |
| 24 | This pathway was originally thought to be important only in those tissues lacking ADH , such as the heart , but a recent study has shown in vivo formation of FAEEs in the liver and pancreas during ethanol exposure . |
| 25 | The wasteground of Sheffield also supports in some places a number of species believed to be native only in dry places in the south of Britain , for example , yellow vetchling ( Lathyrus aphaca ) , sickle medick ( Medicagofalcata ) and the annual grass Vulpia ambigua . |
| 26 | Any effect on the number of road accident casualties is likely to be detectable only in the longer term . |
| 27 | Any effect on the number of casualties in this category is likely to be detectable only in the longer term . |
| 28 | It is interesting that women are said to be conservative only at times and in places where this trait is not valued . |
| 29 | But planners are paid to be pessimistic , and for the time being they felt it prudent to assume that American assistance in a crisis — imperative though it would be — was likely to be forthcoming only after an unpredictable interval . |
| 30 | Clearly this function is continuous everywhere and fails to be differentiable only at the origin ( i.e. x = 0 is the point at which there is no tangent ) . |