Example sentences of "[noun] only in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in relation to our local communities , these bureaucrats are part of the dominant ideology only in a relative sense . |
| 2 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |
| 3 | Thus tunicates ( creatures distantly related to vertebrates , and commonly known as ‘ sea-squirts ’ ) naturally accumulate vanadium or titanium which are present in sea water only in a few parts per billion . |
| 4 | In Spain for example , where the social importance of a commission was comparatively slight , would-be officers were required to prove noble descent only in a few calvary regiments . |
| 5 | The title of Southey 's essay suggests a second area of difficulty since he defines his subject only in a privative sense . |
| 6 | If we persist in interpreting virginity and motherhood only in a physical sense this leaves us with a problem , and she once again becomes a burden by being an impossible act to follow . |
| 7 | Most fish use electricity only in a passive way , receiving the tell-tale discharges of other animals . |