Example sentences of "is only [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Suppose that there is only one type of bond available .
2 ‘ Stash-for-cash is only one way of trading .
3 Oh , I 'm not suggesting that these groups , if they come together and mix will cause problems , I 'm suggesting that if there is only one kind of person that 's attracted to a particular site and that type of person happens to be socially irresponsible , then then you 're it 's a recipe for disaster , is n't it ?
4 I see no reason to deny … that behaviour is only one kind of evidence , sometimes not the best , and surely no criterion for knowledge .
5 This line of thinking presupposes that there is only one kind of power .
6 Election is only one part of representation .
7 Because there is only one sense of monarch , namely , the general one , and because its reference must be maximised , if the subject of the poem was a king or a queen , then ‘ Yes ’ is the only truthful answer .
8 Finally , Stanley and Farrington ( 1981 , 78 ) also conclude that public transport is only one component of accessibility and argue that accessibility deprivation can be alleviated in one of three strategic ways :
9 It is the advice of Consultant Psychiatrists at Banstead and Horton that while there may be a ‘ small number of patients in other categories who might be suitable on an individual basis for transfer to appropriate alternative facilities , there is only one category of patient which can seriously be considered for transfer .
10 There is only one species of orang-utan and two races .
11 In food operations there is only one standard of cleanliness .
12 An official statement said that the dismissal was intended to " ensure there is only one line of thinking and action in environmental policy " .
13 And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort .
14 But such a phenomenalism is only one form of reductionism .
15 Adjudication is only one form of procedure .
16 Reserve police in this part of Belfast correctly point out that uncertainty over their contract is only one form of insecurity , and simply adds to the pressure of working in West Belfast ( FN 9/10/87 , p. 25 ) .
17 This is only one form of teacher collusion with racialized processes .
18 Punishment is only one form of reminder , a particularly vigorous one for emergencies usually with strong feelings involved — to get a child back into the groove .
19 That is only one form of counselling or psychotherapeutic approach .
20 And thirdly , it suggests that the library is only one source of information among many .
21 Although it is possible when a program is used for individual tuition for it to collect data on pupil performance , this is only one mode of diagnostics .
22 There is only one point of relief .
23 Moreover , the law is only one method of control over what is placed in the public arena .
24 The introduction of new technology is only one aspect of problem solving in marginal areas and the desirable overall policy package may be to a substantial degree indivisible since changing one part may affect one or all of the other parts at a local , regional , national or European Economic Community ( EEC ) level .
25 Although literary theory is only one aspect of structuralism , the question of language is obviously peculiarly relevant to it , and it is the conceptual rigour and the range of possibilities provided by the linguistic component of structuralism that give structuralist literary theory its distinctive qualities .
26 There is only one class of mail available for letters to and from Europe .
27 Certainly ‘ death 's other kingdom ’ ( my italics ) suggests that the speakers ' inane life is only another form of death .
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