Example sentences of "[noun sg] only to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I enjoy it ’ and ‘ It hurts ’ testify of course only to awareness of the immediate stimuli , and will always be outweighed if enlargement of awareness changes the response . |
| 2 | In America it is the most common fatal form of cancer , in Britain it is second only to cancer of the lung . |
| 3 | Worldwide , indeed , ‘ exotic ’ species introduced by human beings have become a major cause of extinctions : probably second in importance only to loss of habitat . |
| 4 | Dismissing the anti-spirits movement 's idea of imposing a pledge only to moderation in wine and beer , he announced amid cheers that ‘ nothing but the tee-total would do ’ or , according to some accounts , ‘ I 'll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever . ’ |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 6 | The core studies comprise Architectural History courses taken alongside other clearly associated courses ( either history of art or architectural science , according to the student 's choice ) , while a third course in each year is chosen by the student from all subjects in the Faculties of Arts , Science or Social Sciences , subject only to compatibility of timetable . |