Example sentences of "[adj] only to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The polymer solution is separated from the pure solvent by a membrane , permeable only to solvent molecules . |
| 2 | Even at this stage it is preferable only to sketch in secondary details , fragmentary accompaniment ideas , etc. , before completing a whole section of the main subject matter . |
| 3 | However , it could be argued that an organisation is badly structured because it is poorly managed , and even if it were restructured , poor management would continue to depress the organisation 's performance — ie. performance may not be attributable only to structure . |
| 4 | Was I therefore to assume that homelessness was an issue peculiar only to Apex members within the G M B or was I to reach the alternative , and I might say equally ridiculous conclusion , that despite its majority of women membership , toxic sock , shock syndrome was not of particular interest to Apex members ? |
| 5 | Apple Computer Inc is opening its Company Store , previously accessible only to Apple employees , to the public , but only for buying Apple-logoed merchandise , computer accessories and software — not for buying Macintoshes or peripherals . |
| 6 | Particles larger than this are subject only to saltation and surface creep . |
| 7 | ‘ I am subject only to grief , Nicholas said . |
| 8 | As a cause of lung cancer it comes second only to smoking , and research shows that people who live in houses affected by the gas run a one in thirty chance of dying of lung cancer . |
| 9 | Some officers seem to be unaware that in terms of the number of people who do it , cycling 's second only to walking . |
| 10 | Cancer is the second biggest killer in Northern Ireland , second only to heart disease — itself caused largely by smoking . |
| 11 | Colorectal carcinoma ranks second only to lung cancer in men and to breast cancer in women in the United States . |
| 12 | Surely you have learnt by now that care of equipment comes second only to care of the patients ! ’ |
| 13 | Cooking energy is clearly one of the biggest human needs , second only to food . |
| 14 | Coal imports will double in Japan over the next twenty years or so with coal becoming second only to oil as an energy supplier , at about one-quarter of demand . |
| 15 | Health , education , and social services were issues that came second only to unemployment in terms of public priorities . |
| 16 | During our Pre-Campaign Wave in March defence was the main issue on television , the main issue stressed by the Conservative Party , and second only to unemployment as Labour 's main issue . |
| 17 | The Attorney General is answerable only to Parliament for his decisions . |
| 18 | ‘ Secondly , the Commission is answerable only to Parliament , and to no other group nor individual . |
| 19 | Economics Minister Andrei Nechayev , commenting on the measure , said that it was a new means of regulating fuel prices , applicable only to oil so far , which was based on profitability and would contribute resources to a fund for compensatory payments . |
| 20 | Moreover , unless the United Kingdom is taken to be consciously disregarding the very international obligations on the basis of which it claims that the requirements at issue are compatible with Community law , the fact that those requirements are applicable only to fishing vessels tends to show that , in the United Kingdom 's eyes also , they are not the sole requirements suitable for ensuring the existence of a ‘ genuine link ’ as required by international law . |
| 21 | They say — the records say , that twilight is a moment equal only to pre-dawn in its tenuous hold on life . |
| 22 | the press should be a free press , criticising the government , and [ that the public ] wished the government to be an independent government , not disregarding the criticisms of the press , but nonetheless responsible only to Parliament . |
| 23 | Moralists able only to think of autonomy , of the active imposition of the will on what is round us , miss the essential values of receptivity , of contemplation , of openness to the splendours of what is not oneself . |
| 24 | She had herself spent several weeks alone in her cottage when she had just bought it and when she returned to mix with people she had found that her vocabulary had deserted her , that without stimulation she had completely lost the art of conversation , had been able only to mutter inanities in monosyllabic form . |
| 25 | Many commentators predicted that a majority of women voters , regardless of party loyalty , would be alienated by a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , and that this could damage Bush , who believed that abortion should be available only to rape victims or if the woman 's life was in danger , and whose judicial appointments , the latest of whom was Clarence Thomas , might have created an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court . |
| 26 | One answer is that unions also provide other goods which are private to the extent that they are available only to union members . |
| 27 | While , for a time , they were available only to manufacturing companies or allied service industries , these restrictions have been relaxed to include most types of business . |
| 28 | In the UK , in 1984 a bill was introduced in parliament seeking legal safeguards to ensure that computerised personal health data about patients is available only to health professionals and not to groups such as the police , tax authorities , industry , and social services personnel . |
| 29 | It is significant that the Romans gave them first place , whereas the Chinese valued them above gold , inferior only to jade . |
| 30 | 47 Tucanæ ( NGC 104 ) is inferior only to Omega Centauri . |