Example sentences of "[adj] only to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , she judged , his informal look was due only to the casual style of his clothes , a linen jacket in a beige loose-weave designed to set off his sexy tan , and a sort of hand-spun silk T-shirt emphasising the solid muscle underneath . |
| 2 | In each case the Canadian fiction of a supposedly identical sovereign was repudiated ; and in each case the continuance of a unity which had been due only to the former British connection was made a prior condition for even pretending to play the Canadian game . |
| 3 | Lovins 's adversaries were both numerous and powerful ; and they drew some consolation from his tendency to write prose of baroque opacity , sometimes more than 50 per cent footnotes , and accessible only to the dogged . |
| 4 | The connection that is asserted to hold between a condition-set and its effect , when the effect has a probability of 1 , is akin only to the insufficient one allowed by the Humean accounts , in terms of constant conjunction . |
| 5 | , director of research at ICAS and editor of the study , conceded that there can ‘ never be total independence but , in being responsible only to the chief executive and the financial reporting and audit committee , there could be relative but strong independence ’ . |
| 6 | He worked with the CNR , the Provisional Consultative Assembly , the political parties , and the resistance movements , but he continued to insist that he was accountable only to the French people , who would make their will known after liberation . |
| 7 | However , it remained a luxury food item , available only to the rich , until the 1950s when turkey farming was developed on a much greater scale . |
| 8 | Whereas historically it was expensive , rare , and available only to the privileged few , mainly mathematicians and scientists , now anyone can own and use one . |
| 9 | This can be either broad , with the full expression of human feeling common only to the Labour movement , or it may be narrow , niggardly and mean with only the objective of shirking responsibility , and never carrying out in the spirit of those laws work which could be applied to make the conditions of the working people easier , and the lives of their children brighter and better . |
| 10 | In July and August approximately two million visitors came to London attracted by the historical interest and other events and places common only to the British Isles . |
| 11 | The Felixstowe Justices case illustrates another way in which standing and merits are related : just as the journalist had a sufficient interest only in the general policy of secrecy and not in its application to a particular case , so the remedy to which he was entitled related only to the general policy . |
| 12 | This question had little significance and was relevant only to the part-time farmers as most family farmers said they did not take holidays . |