Example sentences of "[verb] only to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 2 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 3 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 4 | Modulation to keys on the flat side is usually limited only to the subdominant , so that a chord progression something like the following is used : |
| 5 | The stockmarket has in effect been closed to new equity issues for three years , and banks will lend only to the safest borrowers . |
| 6 | In an interview in Newsweek International , he said Tory Euro-rebels amounted only to a ‘ very small number of people ’ in the party . |
| 7 | According to Merleau-Ponty , Western academic Marxism , starting with Lukács , amounted only to the production of ‘ ideas without historical equivalents ’ ( 204 ) . |
| 8 | The information received typically referred only to the riot 's location , and not specific incidents . |
| 9 | To expect a full grammatical statement of BSL after a research history which can be traced only to the mid-70s , would have been optimistic in the extreme . |
| 10 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 11 | ( The English Electric number quoted in the October FlyPast may well relate only to a sub-section . ) |
| 12 | Clearly in that case any statements about the services at the hotel can relate only to the future . |
| 13 | The statements could relate to past facts ( i. e. they could mean that those services were provided last season ) or they could relate only to the future ( i.e. that they will be provided next season ) . |
| 14 | The ceramic and soil contain minute quantities of uranium , thorium and potassium which are radioactive , and when these decay they produce alpha , beta and gamma radiation ( potassium contributes only to the beta and gamma components ) . |
| 15 | The Music dictionary contributes only to the recognition of Music text . |
| 16 | some proteins are exposed only to the exterior surface of the cell . |
| 17 | some proteins are exposed only to the interior surface of the cell . |
| 18 | The debate about overseas government expenditure may be seen as in one sense straightforward — an unsurprising clash of departmental interests , which , given the political weight of the participants , led only to a gradual though cumulative reduction in commitments . |
| 19 | The lane near our cottage led only to a farm , the youth hostel poised on the edge of the cliff and a monument to a Welsh poet , put there by his friends . |
| 20 | He is generally believed to be commemorated in the place name Caradon , which formerly applied only to the hill around which he held sway but now covers a complete District of South East Cornwall . |
| 21 | The testator has not regulated the case of the death of the second son childless : the condition on the trust in favour of his brother ( or rather now that brother 's heir ) is not satisfied , since that applied only to the brother to die first , if childless ; nor , since the first did not die childless , is the condition on the trust in favour of the granddaughter satisfied . |
| 22 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 23 | The tentative Taif agreement , on the other hand , sets no timetable for a total Syrian withdrawal and refers only to a pull-out from the Beirut area within two years . |
| 24 | It could be argued that Lewis 's poem refers only to a failure of etiquette . |
| 25 | Weathering here refers only to the physical agents of sun , wind , rain and temperature change , and the effects of burial in soils ( breakage and corrosion ) will be discussed separately below . |
| 26 | The final draft refers only to the marine environment , which , according to Patricia Bliss-Guest , UNEP 's legal advisor , eliminates large parts of the Gulfs of Mexico , Venezuela , and Campeche , as well as extensive coastal areas throughout the rest of the region . |
| 27 | Mr. Robert Hughes : I think that the Minister intended some slight criticism of the new clause on the ground that it refers only to the companies covered by the Bill . |
| 28 | It refers only to the cause of a difference not to a whole course of development . |
| 29 | Completed family size sometimes refers only to the number of surviving children . |
| 30 | It is via these windows that the system informs the Offline Operator what is happening and requests a media item to be physically mounted or dismounted on the appropriate media unit ; in this case mounting refers only to the action of placing a media item onto a media unit . |