Example sentences of "[adj] only to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some parents who had n't heard the news brought their children to school as normal only to be turned away . |
| 2 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 3 | Henceforth , like St Paul , she was dead to the world and alive only to God . |
| 4 | Bracken scratched her tender skin , but she was barely aware of it , her every nerve ending alive only to the man touching her with such consummate skill . |
| 5 | This is much easier to follow than text which is long-winded and frequently ambiguous or file designs or programming flowcharts which are understandable only to the computer professional . |
| 6 | The polymer solution is separated from the pure solvent by a membrane , permeable only to solvent molecules . |
| 7 | In other words communism under freedom is possible only to the extent that people are motivated by non-economic rewards . |
| 8 | When the market making arm of the company has run down its holdings , in-house arbitrage of overpricings ( which involves ‘ buying ’ shares from the market maker ) will be possible only to a limited degree . |
| 9 | True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost . ’ |
| 10 | Even at this stage it is preferable only to sketch in secondary details , fragmentary accompaniment ideas , etc. , before completing a whole section of the main subject matter . |
| 11 | In each case the Canadian fiction of a supposedly identical sovereign was repudiated ; and in each case the continuance of a unity which had been due only to the former British connection was made a prior condition for even pretending to play the Canadian game . |
| 12 | Sir Willie 's success is due only to the dealers ' greed . |
| 13 | 1984 was notable for the extension to the rights queue caused by the British Telecom privatization so that the brief emergence of the ‘ vendor placing ’ may have been due only to exceptional circumstances . |
| 14 | Due only to its immense solidity are the remains so adequate today . |
| 15 | Now , she judged , his informal look was due only to the casual style of his clothes , a linen jacket in a beige loose-weave designed to set off his sexy tan , and a sort of hand-spun silk T-shirt emphasising the solid muscle underneath . |
| 16 | In any scientific investigation , the extent to which an observed difference is due only to some deliberate perturbation ( internal validity ) and the extent to which such a difference reflects a real difference in the parent population ( external validity ) is dependent on avoidance of a variety of pitfalls . |
| 17 | comparisons of the drugs within litters reveal differences due only to the effects of X 1 , X 2 , X 3 , i.e. there is good internal validity ; |
| 18 | Failure on such a scale can be attributable only to some major underlying cause , which has stubbornly defied discovery , or has been equally stubbornly kept hidden by those who , whilst being aware of it , are interested only in its continued existence . |
| 19 | However , it could be argued that an organisation is badly structured because it is poorly managed , and even if it were restructured , poor management would continue to depress the organisation 's performance — ie. performance may not be attributable only to structure . |
| 20 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |
| 21 | To claim that such functions are peculiar only to western cultural uses of words is plain ethnocentrism easily refuted by the evidence available . |
| 22 | Was I therefore to assume that homelessness was an issue peculiar only to Apex members within the G M B or was I to reach the alternative , and I might say equally ridiculous conclusion , that despite its majority of women membership , toxic sock , shock syndrome was not of particular interest to Apex members ? |
| 23 | ‘ I say this only to the very special women , of which there are few , and of which , my dear Alexandra , you are one . |
| 24 | The uncollimated detector had a 3 dB angle of 75° , and the collimator supplied by the manufacturer with the detector reduced this only to 50° . |
| 25 | It is not enough for a business to be responsive only to its present environment . |
| 26 | 1.2 Advantages and It is not enough for a business to be disadvantages of responsive only to its present forecasting environment . |
| 27 | The association of thought was clear only to him , luckily ! |
| 28 | The Sun radiates energy over the whole electromagnetic spectrum , but the Earth 's atmosphere is transparent only to infra-red , visible , and some ultraviolet light . |
| 29 | The hairs are transparent only to ultraviolet light : other light in the visible range is reflected , which is why the coat appears white . |
| 30 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |