Example sentences of "[verb] only to a " 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 | In an interview in Newsweek International , he said Tory Euro-rebels amounted only to a ‘ very small number of people ’ in the party . |
| 4 | ( The English Electric number quoted in the October FlyPast may well relate only to a sub-section . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It could be argued that Lewis 's poem refers only to a failure of etiquette . |
| 9 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 10 | At the same time it should be recognized that the Library 's exhibitions in their present form are likely to appeal only to a limited audience . |
| 11 | It was happening only to a minority . |
| 12 | In this latter regard , a distinction must be drawn between , on the one hand , Bills of general application — Public Bills , and Bills applying only to a particular area or person — Private Bills . |
| 13 | Should the judges take it into their heads to question this ‘ authority ’ ( as occasionally they have ) then much of it is not too difficult to discount , as being obiter dicta , or as relating only to a rather narrow , specific point , ( e.g. the effect of a fraud on the Private Bills Committee of the House of Commons ) and leaving untouched the broader general question . |
| 14 | One might expect it to lead only to a rather vague pantheism which could make no real place either for religious institutions or for specific doctrines and formulations . |
| 15 | Under the English Bill of Lading Act of 1855 , the rights under the contract of affreightment are transferred only to a person ‘ to whom the property in the goods passes upon or by reason of endorsement . ’ |
| 16 | In countries which already have predominantly enterprise-level bargaining reverse and countervailing pressures have operated only to a more limited extent — in this case towards greater consolidation in bargaining structures . |
| 17 | But that can be granted only to a refugee who is seeking asylum on the ground that the Government might have administered a case improperly and not followed its own rules for processing refugees under a United Nations Convention . |
| 18 | I have concluded that either a ) the database was saved only to a floppy disk and taken away by your student , or b ) it was a WORKS database and was irretrievably lost when my hard disk crashed last year . |
| 19 | To be accurate , ‘ private press ’ should be applied only to a press where the owner 's or operator 's chief objective is to print a fine book , without being at the mercy of a publisher 's instructions and a first necessity to show a profit , even though he may sell his wares through commercial channels . |
| 20 | John Carter , on the other hand , concluded that ‘ as generally understood , the term private press would be applied only to a shop where the work was hand-set and hand-printed ’ . |
| 21 | Although there is some laxity in the use of the term , ‘ broadside ’ or ‘ broadsheet ’ should properly be applied only to a complete , undivided large sheet , printed on one side . |
| 22 | It ‘ is the most difficult form of communication to learn , though since it is used only to a very limited extent , the skill is not essential to the handling of horses ’ . |
| 23 | The changes in exports and imports of manufactures , for example , can not be attributed only to a failure , or in some cases success , of British managers and workers ; and the rise in ( portfolio ) investment overseas by UK banks and finance houses is not explicable in terms of the propensities of British bankers or the character of the UK banking system alone . |
| 24 | It should be clear that such a restoration is not to be undertaken lightly , and it should be entrusted only to a skilled professional . |
| 25 | What it does n't currently offer is Unix SVR4 compatibility , and Solbourne commits only to a gradual migration to Solaris over a two year period . |
| 26 | It applies only to a few high risk processes and is invariably achieved by means of heat . |
| 27 | Mr. Armitage [ junior counsel for the plaintiff ] suggested that clause ( b ) applies only to a mistake made by the officials in the Registry and not to a mistake made or induced by one or other of the parties . |
| 28 | The defence contained in the proviso applies only to a contravention of subs . |
| 29 | Curiously , the Order discriminates against Scottish and Irish lawyers : the relaxation of the general rule applies only to a defined class of EC lawyers from which those qualified in Scotland or Northern Ireland are , whether by accident or design , excluded . |
| 30 | Exceptions to this rule should apply only to a limited number of sectors enumerated in the Treaty . ’ |