Example sentences of "[noun sg] only to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under such circumstances characteristics of adult language input would be reflected in differential rates of progress only to the extent that they coincided with the child 's existing ‘ style ’ of learning language ( Gleitman et al . |
| 2 | An exclusion clause in a contract of sale can provide a defence only to the seller and only against a claim by the person to whom he sold . |
| 3 | C , lacking an association with X , will be able to evoke the test response only to the extent that , without any special training , it holds elements in common with A. Now , for acquired distinctiveness to occur , for the generalization between A and C to be reduced , it is necessary for the training procedures to reduce the extent to which these common elements acquire strength . |
| 4 | The recruitment of members of both groups into the Police Force of the Interior was also covered by the treaty , an important consideration given the hostile response by Tucayana to the July 1989 Kourou peace accord [ see p. 36811 ] which afforded this provision only to the SLA . |
| 5 | Where courses are offered at only one teaching centre , it would be possible to make significant progress by initially devolving responsibility for assessment only to the college , while maintaining for the time being central control of the course content . |
| 6 | To the extent that activities are spontaneous it appears that they belong to the realm of the caused ( which in the case of biological process is obvious enough ) , and that he is a free agent only to the extent that he learns to direct them . |
| 7 | Section 1(2) of the Act states that the following are not inventions for the purposes of the Act : ( a ) a discovery , scientific theory or mathematical method ; ( b ) a literary , dramatic , musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation whatsoever ; ( c ) a scheme , rule or method for performing any mental act , playing a game or doing business , or a program for a computer ; ( d ) the presentation of information ; but the foregoing provision shall prevent anything from being treated as an invention for the purposes of this Act only to the extent that a patent or application for a patent relates to that thing as such ( emphasis added ) |
| 8 | ‘ The public house represents what should be the hub of our wheel of life , essential to our material need and second only to the church that stands and represents our spiritual necessity . |
| 9 | Charkham enjoyed his job , coining the phrase that ‘ patronage is second only to the act of love in conferring pleasure on all parties concerned . ’ |
| 10 | From record pancake tossers and bubblegum blowers to an Ulster woman who was still working at 107 — they all get a mention in the book that is second only to the Bible in the best sellers list . |
| 11 | With the Stonesfield mosaic , which in terms of sophistication is second only to the design from Woodchester , this region , however , still boasts five remarkable , concentric circular designs . |
| 12 | Morvern is a peninsula and almost an island , having sea water on all sides and a connection with the mainland only to the east of Loch Sunart . |
| 13 | As a result , a subsidiary will be able to acquire shares in its parent only to the extent that the parent is able to acquire its own shares . |
| 14 | We shall be drawing upon this case further , but for the moment we want to draw attention only to the way in which the reporter , by a particular choice of descriptive vocabulary , conveyed the impression that the actions of the group were meaningless . |
| 15 | At present , the UK operates a margin scheme ( ie ; it applies tax only to the difference between the purchase and the sale value ) and exempts from VAT imports of paintings and works of art created before 1 April 1973 and items older than one hundred years . |
| 16 | Profits earned overseas by companies registered in the UK may be subject to overseas taxation , but corporation tax on those profits is usually reduced by overseas taxation suffered ; in effect , overseas profits are usually subject to UK corporation tax only to the extent that the rate of overseas tax is lower than the UK rate ( double tax relief . |
| 17 | Rawls applies the Kantian insight only to the choice of the principles of justice . |
| 18 | The Queen 's Way , which ran at right angles to the King 's Way , was to have a massive terminal station at its head , dominating Connaught Circus and second in importance only to the Viceroy 's palace on the Raisina Acropolis at the head of King 's Way . |
| 19 | In 1930 , Helene Deutsch described the syndrome of frigidity t-n a significant group of her patients , women who are ‘ psychically healthy ’ , yet for whom the concept of orgasm was completely alien : ‘ In intercourse they experience a happy and tender sense that they are giving keen pleasure , convinced that coitus is of importance only to the man . |
| 20 | Its confidence appeared to be growing , for in 1864 the tsar enacted three measures that were second in importance only to the emancipation itself . |
| 21 | Provision is made for deferred taxation only to the extent that it is probable that the tax will become payable , and is at the rate at which it is estimated that the tax will be paid . |
| 22 | On the other hand , your reader will be interested in your writing only to the extent that what you say is convincing ; and while a film reviewer or a famous literary theorist may be able to rely on their position or fame to guarantee the authority of what they say , you will need to rely on the quality of your argument . |
| 23 | the Problem ‘ Author ’ has access only to the problem reports he has created |
| 24 | constitute a challenge to interference theory only to the extent that this theory is constrained to predict that the aversive CR acquired in the first stage of training should fail to transfer fully to a new test context . |
| 25 | Even the preference of the British Chiefs of Staff for an advance only to the waist-line in North Korea ( well short of Manchuria ) might not have reassured them . |
| 26 | Uezd and volost' organs were required to report twice a month only to the guberniia , which sent a monthly summary to Moscow . |
| 27 | Of strategic significance only to the race that put it there , the shell was treated as a grotesque curio , a titanic folly . |
| 28 | That being so , there was no reason why the words of section 29(3) should not be given their natural meaning and so read , the power was clearly all-embracing , subject only to the qualification that the Home Secretary could not lawfully require broadcasters to broadcast matter involving them in a breach of their statutory duty . |
| 29 | The decision whether to treat is dependent upon an exercise of his own professional judgment , subject only to the threshold requirement that , save in exceptional cases usually of emergency , he has the consent of someone who has authority to give that consent . ’ |
| 30 | The decision whether to treat is dependent upon an exercise of his own professional judgment , subject only to the threshold requirement that , save in exceptional cases usually of emergency , he has the consent of someone who has authority to give that consent . |