Example sentences of "[noun sg] only of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Take the first sentence only of the implicit example ,
2 For we have long since ceased to regard the raising of houses in such an offhand fashion , even when they are to the glory only of the home-owning democracy .
3 IN 1905 , when the Automobile Association was founded , ownership and use of a car was the privilege only of the rich .
4 Many respondents found the discussion paper 's proposals in this area confusing or illogical , which caused the Board to re-examine it and to propose requiring disclosure only of the total amounts of the respective kinds of interest in shareholders ' funds .
5 Via the PMDL it is possible to limit the effect of a process model to the latest version of a module only of the defined type and subtype or to allow all versions to be effected independently .
6 The UCR managed to retain control only of the federal capital of Buenos Aires , won by Fernando de la Rúa , and the western industrial province of Córdoba , won by Eduardo Angeloz , the UCR presidential candidate in 1989 .
7 An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman .
8 ‘ It is , ma foi , a matter only of the little grey cells , m'sieur ’ , he was saying .
9 Insiders attempt to maximize the utility only of the representative employed worker ( that is , the representative insider ) ; they attach no utility to the welfare of unemployed workers ( outsiders ) .
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