Example sentences of "[adj] only [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 2 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 3 | There had been enormous economic advances , which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance . |
| 4 | The burst of social legislation prior to 1914 was possible only within a context in which the most obvious social evils of the day , such as the poverty caused by old age , sickness and unemployment , had been identified and shown to be amenable to State action . |
| 5 | " Life is possible only within a movement which calls the world into question " , he was to note later in Le Cheval de Troie . |
| 6 | ‘ People in government should feel the way social processes are moving early , ’ he says , ‘ and that is possible only in a metropolis . |
| 7 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 8 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the view of the chief constable of west Yorkshire , Mr. Peter Nobes , that the upsurge in the taking of motor vehicles has probably occurred since the change in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , which reduced the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle to a summary offence triable only at a magistrates court ? |
| 9 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 10 | Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility . |
| 11 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |
| 12 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 13 | Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively . |
| 14 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 15 | Standing in the queue were problems of the economy , of the development of the productive forces , which , with regard to agriculture , was conceivable only in a form of the growth of petty-bourgeois economy . |
| 16 | I 'm writing this prose now in a domestic quiet broken only by a blackbird outside my window , and a car starting up and revving . |
| 17 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |
| 18 | First , the global standardization of taste is global only in a class sense . |
| 19 | Accessible only by a ladder . |
| 20 | The huge sphere of its forward compartments was visible only as a nothingness in the star-filled field of space — a circle of darkness more intense than that which surrounded it . |
| 21 | It actually failed to put the price of cigarettes up in the budget last year and most people agree that a high price would be a major disincentive , second only to a heart attack . |
| 22 | Notice that the pyramid shape is typical only during a period when medical care is deficient ; birth and death rates are then high with probability of death being relatively constant at all ages . |
| 23 | This book is likely to prove useful only as a source of references . |
| 24 | Even so , in 1974 and in subsequent general elections the system would have proved viable only in a minority of regions . |
| 25 | A gas that is present only in a trace — carbon dioxide — is , in practice , the stuff from which all flesh is made . |
| 26 | Among North Kensington laundresses , the local maxim was ‘ the best ironer gets the worst husband ’ , although within the local community it would appear that husbands and wives adjusted to the often superior earning power of the wife , and in at least one suburban district the custom prevailed whereby husbands remained responsible only for a sum which covered rent , the baker 's bill and boots for the family . |
| 27 | It is compatible only with a system of production and a society moving within narrow limits which are of natural origin ’ ( Marx , 1976 , pp. 927–8 ) . |
| 28 | Note that the absolute values of n are accurate only to a factor of 2 up or down but that the relative numbers from planet to planet are considerably more accurate . |
| 29 | This submission appears to me to suggest a way of making more effective proceedings in Parliament by allowing the court to consider what has been said in Parliament as an aid to resolving an ambiguity which may well have become apparent only as a result of the attempt to apply the enacted words to a particular case . |
| 30 | A mode of speech familiar only to a group or profession ; unintelligible words . |