Example sentences of "only [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 1988 : 47–84 ; Enloe 1978 ; Pockrass 1986 ; Weitzer 1985 , 1986 , 1987 a , b ) , this forms only part of RUC duties , given the special position of Northern Ireland among divided societies . |
| 32 | But that is only part of the explanation for the magnitude of their swing to the Conservatives . |
| 33 | The services provided by the music business adviser are only part of the union 's total commitment to servicing the needs of today 's musicians . |
| 34 | The bluffness of Lewis , which before he became a don was only part of his nature ( 'Heavy Lewis ' ) , was fast hardening into a persona . |
| 35 | Efficient plant is only part of the answer to rising energy costs . |
| 36 | B&C shares recovered only part of their losses , closing 16p down at 92p , because the rumours coincided with downgradings of the company by three analysts . |
| 37 | Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days . |
| 38 | Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days . |
| 39 | Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days . |
| 40 | Mr Patten said the 120-clause bill was only part of the Government 's strategy for the environment . |
| 41 | Although these games are only part of the phoney war the results are still important to a country 's prestige and confidence and Brazil would love to add England to their victims when they visit Wembley at the end of March . |
| 42 | But the taxman 's generosity is only part of the problem : more pernicious is the way he imputes a set amount of taxable income according to the size of a car 's engine . |
| 43 | Linkage may get Mr Hussein out of Kuwait , but recovering Kuwait , though welcome in itself , is only part of what the world needs to achieve in the Gulf . |
| 44 | And enforcing his policies is only part of the problem . |
| 45 | The cost of film-making is only part of it . |
| 46 | But death , in itself , was only part of the problem ; for many people , an even more terrifying part was the uncertainty when and how death would come . |
| 47 | A Shamen show is designed so you do n't just stand and stare at the band : and though the live act might be the heart of the show , the spectacle of Colin ( cropped Aberdeen curls , Trotsky shades ) , and Will ( shoulder length braided locks , shabby green fatigues ) is only part of an evening of light , music and effects that now involves around ten people . |
| 48 | But even this remark states only part of the truth . |
| 49 | That was only part of the story . |
| 50 | Simplicity and ceremonial seem to express the changing pattern of Nonconformist worship but that worship was only part of a wider search for dignity , a dignity which was mainly realized in the new and improved buildings Nonconformity was erecting up and down the country . |
| 51 | But such innocence is only part of the story . |
| 52 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 53 | As we have seen , however , the gathering together of workshop participants with similar interests is only part of the idea , for Highlander always aims at helping people to translate their ideas into positive action when they return to their own communities . |
| 54 | Fluka is known world-wide as a supplier of high quality chemicals and bio-chemicals for research and development and intermediates for industrial manufacture , but this is only part of the picture . |
| 55 | Only part of central northern Scotland may be below the critical load for sensitive plant communities such as those around some lakes and peat bogs . |
| 56 | The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased . |
| 57 | Only part of this extensive cloth and flock mill remains , much having been destroyed by fire . |
| 58 | In most countries , groundwater flows from aquifers throughout the year but rainfall replenishes them for only part of the time . |
| 59 | As a result , a number of Palestinian intellectuals and development workers began arguing that liberation from Israel was only part of a broader process and indeed unless that broader process , which implied radical economic change , took place no liberation from Israel was likely . |
| 60 | Only part of the case for answering positively to the question Why save ? has been given . |