Example sentences of "[verb] only [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 2 | The change in depends only on the second derivatives at x , and so these derivatives must embody the curvature information . |
| 3 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 4 | The second " have " ( = " has " ) seems odd because the realisation happened only during the Second World War and is now clearly finished . |
| 5 | The oddity is that the jurist seems to deal only with the second question , which is of much less complexity than the first . |
| 6 | What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged . |
| 7 | Certain ‘ representatives of the Afghan people ’ would be admitted only at the second stage of the conference and they would need to accept the decisions of the conference . |
| 8 | In the early 19th century , however , new legislation inadvertently deprived the press of its fiscal advantages , and its publishing petered out , to be revived only after the Second World War . |
| 9 | Mass movement of women into the work-force dates only from the Second World War — especially from 1960 — and the improvement of women 's wage rates relative to men 's happened only since 1970 . |
| 10 | State intervention in rural manufacturing really dates only from the Second World War , after the report of the Scott Committee in 1942 assessed the advantages and disadvantages that would result from rural industrialization . |