Example sentences of "[be] [adj] only in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to protect the privacy of those whose lives are recorded , the material may be kept confidential for some years , or may be available only in a form where individuals can not be identified . |
| 2 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 3 | ‘ People in government should feel the way social processes are moving early , ’ he says , ‘ and that is possible only in a metropolis . |
| 4 | First , the global standardization of taste is global only in a class sense . |
| 5 | A gas that is present only in a trace — carbon dioxide — is , in practice , the stuff from which all flesh is made . |
| 6 | As Stanyer ( 1976 , ch. 1 ) reminds us , it is important to see each locality as a miniature political and administrative system in its own right , a point reinforced by the Widdicombe Report ( 1986 , p. 22 ) when the committee emphasized that ‘ some of the commonly held assumptions about local government are valid only in a minority of authorities ’ . |
| 7 | Standing in the queue were problems of the economy , of the development of the productive forces , which , with regard to agriculture , was conceivable only in a form of the growth of petty-bourgeois economy . |