Example sentences of "[verb] only to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 2 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 3 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 4 | some proteins are exposed only to the interior surface of the cell . |
| 5 | some proteins are exposed only to the exterior surface of the cell . |
| 6 | The debate about overseas government expenditure may be seen as in one sense straightforward — an unsurprising clash of departmental interests , which , given the political weight of the participants , led only to a gradual though cumulative reduction in commitments . |
| 7 | Weathering here refers only to the physical agents of sun , wind , rain and temperature change , and the effects of burial in soils ( breakage and corrosion ) will be discussed separately below . |
| 8 | The final draft refers only to the marine environment , which , according to Patricia Bliss-Guest , UNEP 's legal advisor , eliminates large parts of the Gulfs of Mexico , Venezuela , and Campeche , as well as extensive coastal areas throughout the rest of the region . |
| 9 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 10 | No District Court accepted the exclusivity argument , many relying on a superficial reading of Article 27(c) of the Convention , which allows Contracting States to permit ‘ by internal law or practice , methods of taking evidence other than those provided for in this Convention ’ ; the better view is that this freedom is given only to the requested country and does not refer to the country from which the discovery request originates . |
| 11 | At the same time it should be recognized that the Library 's exhibitions in their present form are likely to appeal only to a limited audience . |
| 12 | Britain has one of the largest black populations in the Western world , yet magazines seem to try to appeal only to the white mainstream . |
| 13 | — senses can not always be derived by affix-stripping , e.g. ’ conductivity ’ derives from ’ conduct ’ , but corresponds only to the electrical sense ( one would not talk of the ’ conductivity ’ of an orchestra ) ; |
| 14 | There is not yet , however , any experimental evidence for these phenomena : injection of a low-power continuous signal is routinely used to induce single-longitudinal mode operation in , for example , high-power CO , lasers , but this application corresponds only to the small-injected signal limit of the system under discussion . |
| 15 | Four of their Lordships held that ‘ in furtherance ’ referred only to the subjective state of mind of the defendant and that he so acted if his purpose was to help the parties in the dispute to achieve their objectives and if he honestly and reasonably believed his actions would do so . |
| 16 | This homology is not confined only to the kinking proline residues and the long basic side chain of arginine but also includes the hydrophobic amino terminal valine or alanine . |
| 17 | Life-cycle poverty was a condition not confined only to the old . |
| 18 | In this latter regard , a distinction must be drawn between , on the one hand , Bills of general application — Public Bills , and Bills applying only to a particular area or person — Private Bills . |
| 19 | I have concluded that either a ) the database was saved only to a floppy disk and taken away by your student , or b ) it was a WORKS database and was irretrievably lost when my hard disk crashed last year . |
| 20 | Alternatively , the information obtained from a remote-sensing satellite could be inappropriate for a developing country if the sensors on board the vehicle are tailored only to the different requirements of industrialised nations . |
| 21 | Although there is some laxity in the use of the term , ‘ broadside ’ or ‘ broadsheet ’ should properly be applied only to a complete , undivided large sheet , printed on one side . |
| 22 | If not , it amounts only to an invalid legacy . |
| 23 | The seminary itself is difficult to see , the approach from the road leading only to an imposing wall with faceless windows and a usually , barred door It was built by San Carlo Borromeo in 1564 and is square , the four walls enclosing a courtyard that measures 56 metres on one side and is surrounded by a double tier gallery , each floor of which is supported by double Doric columns . |
| 24 | The effect of the maxim is to add to most utterances a pragmatic inference to the effect that the statement presented is the strongest , or most informative , that can be made in the situation ; in many cases the implicatures can be glossed by adding only to the propositional content of the sentence , e.g. " Nigel has only fourteen children " , " the flag is only white " , " Harry only got a fine " . |
| 25 | These comments may seem to apply only to the large international manufacturing corporation , but nowadays there is no business so small that it is immune to the effects of international competition , and many service businesses are only just beginning to feel these effects . |
| 26 | It should be clear that such a restoration is not to be undertaken lightly , and it should be entrusted only to a skilled professional . |
| 27 | Wring our hands and bleat that the world is ‘ interdependent ’ , ignoring the plain truth that interdependence without equity leads only to the deepening dependency of the weaker ? |
| 28 | Enzensberger 's whole position , which seems to cry out for such examination , leads only to an overstrained nihilism . |
| 29 | Whether it is more difficult than selling only to the domestic market is a debatable point , but success depends to a large extent on the attitude and approach of the firm and the personal qualities of the salespeople — not every salesperson is suited to such a task from the point of view of understanding and empathy with the foreign market concerned . |
| 30 | Olson 's claims for the consequences of literacy refer only to the essay-text form of writing , as though this was what is generally meant by ‘ literacy ’ . |