Example sentences of "only in [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book says that Eliot 's truest poetry was a form of plagiarism , in the benign sense that ‘ it was only in response to other poetry that Eliot could express his own deepest feelings ’ . |
| 2 | Lawrence Kohlberg 's empirical work on moral development follows , as far as its basic stance is concerned , the structure and assumptions of Jean Piaget , who has demonstrated apparently invariant sequences of change , not only in relation to moral development , but in other areas , too . |
| 3 | I suggest that these meanings arise from everyday discourse , which habitually makes use of oppositions such as masculinity/femininity , science/arts — oppositions which make sense only in relation to each other . |
| 4 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 5 | The noun ‘ dependent ’ is an ugly label , implying that a person exists only in relation to another person . |