Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] only to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ask yourself , John , a device the size of a nuclear tactical shell used by the artillery , with damage confined only to the research station , or the dissemination of some of the most deadly bacterial and viral agents the world has ever known . ’ |
| 2 | During adolescence , the teenager may develop special meanings for certain words known only to the peer group and not understood by adults . |
| 3 | Previous Marxist descriptions of the democratic state as a nakedly repressive apparatus attuned only to the behests of capitalists sat unsatisfactorily with the apparent emergence of government planning and ‘ caring capitalism ’ , at least in the period from the early 1950s to the late 1970s . |
| 4 | She must have thought she was using some magic password known only to the foreigners who drank this strange golden liquid in preference to kava . |
| 5 | For some reason known only to the Fellows I was nominated as senior of the four scholars of my year . |
| 6 | His rendition of the approach journey from Kingsburgh fills in more detail than Johnson 's , with the revealing observation — still visibly understandable — that their guide navigated across the moors much in the same manner as , I suppose , is pursued in the wilds of America , by observing certain marks known only to the inhabitants ' . |