Example sentences of "[noun sg] only to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 2 | ‘ I enjoy it ’ and ‘ It hurts ’ testify of course only to awareness of the immediate stimuli , and will always be outweighed if enlargement of awareness changes the response . |
| 3 | It explicitly reversed the accepted Catholic teaching which related freedom only to truth and not to persons , claiming that error had no rights . |
| 4 | In America it is the most common fatal form of cancer , in Britain it is second only to cancer of the lung . |
| 5 | The results , in a health and beauty magazine , show over-45s fear Alzheimer 's Disease second only to cancer . |
| 6 | The NHS management executive , however , appears to have put job evaluation second only to skill mix on its list of priorities . |
| 7 | The spreadsheet application is second only to word processing in terms of popularity . |
| 8 | Of the remaining varieties , red kidney beans are the most widely known , being a vital ingredient in chilli con carne , which strikes me as being second only to ham , egg and chips on the standard pub menu ! |
| 9 | Worldwide , indeed , ‘ exotic ’ species introduced by human beings have become a major cause of extinctions : probably second in importance only to loss of habitat . |
| 10 | Dismissing the anti-spirits movement 's idea of imposing a pledge only to moderation in wine and beer , he announced amid cheers that ‘ nothing but the tee-total would do ’ or , according to some accounts , ‘ I 'll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever . ’ |
| 11 | Much of policy-implementation today requires positive action by government officials — it is no longer a case of making rules and leaving the citizen to get on with observing them , subject only to policing . |
| 12 | to be designed , developed and maintained to the highest achievable standards of data processing , subject only to resource constraints ; and |
| 13 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 14 | The core studies comprise Architectural History courses taken alongside other clearly associated courses ( either history of art or architectural science , according to the student 's choice ) , while a third course in each year is chosen by the student from all subjects in the Faculties of Arts , Science or Social Sciences , subject only to compatibility of timetable . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the sense of mouth ( of river ) is stable across a variety of contexts ( i.e. subject only to modulation ) provided that ‘ of river ’ is understood . |
| 16 | Both had their origin in a Working Document presented by the United Kingdom delegation and designed to apply the Convention only to evidence ‘ for use in proceedings pending in the State of origin ’ . |
| 17 | So far , legislation has been passed to apply this principle only to packaging . |
| 18 | Thus , if it issues an investment advertisement only to business investors , FSA-authorised persons , FSA-exempted persons or relevant European institutions ( see page 37 above ) , the requirement under the COB Rules to apply appropriate expertise and to ensure it is clear and not misleading will not have to apply ; but that requirement will apply if the firm indicates that it is a member of the SFA , and s 47 of the FSA ( misleading statements ) must always be remembered . |
| 19 | She must live with women , be a mother only to girl children . |
| 20 | The garden , which had provided not only subsistence but a little cash crop , was overgrown with brambles and cow-parsley and other vegetation of interest only to wildlife . |