The phrase "are only eliminated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something is removed or excluded, emphasizing that it is the only action taken.
Example: "In this process, unnecessary steps are only eliminated to streamline efficiency."
Alternatives: "are solely removed" or "are exclusively discarded".
Rather than immediately narrowing down their lists of potential schools based on factors like size and location, students are only eliminating colleges from their initial lists if they are significantly unaffordable.
Rising worker wages in the late 19th and early 20th centuries stabilised growth in wealth concentrations but did nothing to reduce inequalities, which were only eliminated by the great shocks of the period from 1914 to 1950.
ALONSO: In the early part of last century, there were still major outbreaks of malaria here in Boston, and there were big ones in Washington, D.C. Malaria was only eliminated in the 1960s from the U.S. Probably most of the planet had malaria transmission 150 years ago.
Subsequently, FGC was officially banned in 1997, but the loophole allowing for medically necessary circumcision was only eliminated in 2007 following outrage over the death of an 11-year old girl after being circumcised [ 10, 11].
C. albicans was isolated by test I in five patients and by test II in four of them and in one new patient, which means that this microorganism was only eliminated in one patient from the oral cavity microflora.
In a mammary epithelial cell line, tight junction formation was only eliminated when both ZO-1 and ZO-2 function was downregulated, identifying a requirement the expression of both factors for tight junction assembly.
Although there was a reduction in the proportion of point measurements < or = 10 mmHg in 11 out of 13 patients, during carbogen breathing, measured points of < or = 2.5 mmHg were only eliminated in three out of 11 tumours.
"We're only eliminating it because of the cost," he added.
The developers are making its bugs a selling point, too: "We're only eliminating the crash-bugs, everything else is hilarious and we're keeping it... .. That's my choice, but what Android apps and games have you been using recently?
Ending a "launch-on-warning" policy, even if ICBMs were not eliminated, or were only partially eliminated, would add stability and set the appropriate example for the rest of the world at a time when we should be leading the way on a path toward more nuclear safety and eventual elimination.
