Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] only to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as a case for a ‘ radical extension ’ of industrial democracy by means requiring the assumption by unreformed trade unions of rights which had hitherto attached only to ownership , it merits at this point no more than a suspended judgment at best . |
| 2 | For example , G above refers only to government consumption expenditure rather than all government expenditure , which would also include spending on fixed assets ; this item is in fact included under gross domestic fixed capital formation . |
| 3 | Corporations may be granted these devices , but they are normally permitted only to counties , cities and councils of standing ; and companies and institutions of an important national nature . |
| 4 | They are , in short , symbols of eminence and are normally granted only to peers and knights of the first class of the orders of chivalry — although some baronets also have armorial supporters . |
| 5 | He improved his championship best to a wind-assisted 10.39 seconds in the 100 metres semi-finals and the organisers have agreed to pay his expenses for competing in the Olympic trials in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 a bonus normally offered only to winners . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) The fact that clearing house protections generally apply only to members of the exchange and not to customers . |
| 7 | It 's a story now told only to children . |
| 8 | These were mysteries now known only to God . |
| 9 | Or , put another way , are the Powell conditions too tough — tough not just for Americans , but for those , like Bosnia 's Muslims , whose plight is such that they can plausibly look only to America for salvation ? |
| 10 | Thomas Laqueur quotes various nineteenth-century writers who use metaphors of enlargement , bursting and rupture ; words such as ‘ rut ’ , previously applied only to dogs , were employed to describe women . |
| 11 | Criminal liability , the argument continues , ordinarily attaches only to commissions which cause consequences not omissions whereby consequences are permitted to occur . |
| 12 | Walesa on May 20 addressed a special session of the Knesset ( parliament ) , an honour previously accorded only to Presidents Jimmy Carter of the United States , Anwar Sadat of Egypt , and François Mitterrand of France . |
| 13 | The men following up therefore had only to pinion the defender and use their momentum to force him backwards to be given yet another kick instead of a scrum . |