Example sentences of "[adj] only to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at this stage it is preferable only to sketch in secondary details , fragmentary accompaniment ideas , etc. , before completing a whole section of the main subject matter . |
| 2 | Surely you have learnt by now that care of equipment comes second only to care of the patients ! ’ |
| 3 | Coal imports will double in Japan over the next twenty years or so with coal becoming second only to oil as an energy supplier , at about one-quarter of demand . |
| 4 | Health , education , and social services were issues that came second only to unemployment in terms of public priorities . |
| 5 | The Attorney General is answerable only to Parliament for his decisions . |
| 6 | They say — the records say , that twilight is a moment equal only to pre-dawn in its tenuous hold on life . |
| 7 | Moralists able only to think of autonomy , of the active imposition of the will on what is round us , miss the essential values of receptivity , of contemplation , of openness to the splendours of what is not oneself . |
| 8 | He is ‘ loyal only to Nature in a vague way ’ ; he reads obscene books and then worries at frequent seminal emissions . |