Example sentences of "[coord] only [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the latter , can it be for any offence or only for a serious one , and is the offence in the problem sufficiently serious ? |
| 2 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
| 3 | Many other substances play a minor role as insect pigments , occurring either in small amounts or only in a few species . |
| 4 | The voice sounded surprisingly strong for someone supposedly in the throes of a heart attack , thought Lindsey , stepping into the suite and only with a real effort stifling an exclamation of amazement . |
| 5 | Today it means in terms of a hierarchy of pedagogical responsibilities that the individual and the individual family have a primary role , which they carry out through contracting and engaging for specific purposes the services of ‘ free ’ organizations according to their private ideological orientation , and only as a last resort does the state intervene directly . |
| 6 | Jakobson 's poetic analyses are mostly concerned with establishing the mere presence of relationships of equivalence , and only to a small degree with discussing their significance . |
| 7 | He once wrote : ‘ I am not fond of writing about myself and only to a less degree about my work . ’ |
| 8 | The following remarks apply particularly to the roundhouse kick and the side kick and only to a lesser extent to the front kick . |
| 9 | Where , on the other hand , the third estate was still weak and only in a budding stage at the beginning of the nineteenth century , as in Germany , Italy , and among the Slavonic peoples , nationalism found its expression predominantly in the cultural field . |
| 10 | At first , it touched just one or two establishments , and only in a small way , but it spread with time and today it is one of the major driving forces in AEA 's business . |
| 11 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 12 | Fortunately most of the corridors were bright enough and only in a few of the darker , damper ones did he need his torch to see where he was going . |
| 13 | However , the problem for competition policy is that trade-offs are more or less ubiquitous , and only in a few cases ( price fixing or market sharing are examples ) is it possible to reach an unambiguous verdict . |
| 14 | Deceptively , because in practice it is rarely accomplished and only in a few cases have polymer blends or mixtures achieved industrial importance . |
| 15 | During the addition of user data , dangling cross-references , perhaps reflecting the order in which data is added , are flagged in the first pass and only after a second pass to re-check citations is the possibility of rejection considered . |
| 16 | When they meet one another , they gingerly caress each other 's long legs and only after a great deal of hesitation do they come to closer quarters . |
| 17 | Theoretical concepts like Saussure 's langue help to reassure linguists that they are not dealing directly with speakers who inhabit the real world of social and power relations , but only with a pure , decontextualised system . |
| 18 | After a little Pickerage calmed down , but only with a palpable effort . |
| 19 | " You ran a brothel in Dublin , and you 've continued your foul trade here — but only on a grander level . |
| 20 | Alison Clifford is back in the saddle , but only on a borrowed horse . |
| 21 | Chain had overcome the problems which had defeated every previous experimenter with penicillin , but only on a small scale . |
| 22 | The staff are working as normal but only on a week-to-week basis . |
| 23 | SCOTLAND 's assistant coach , John Jeffrey , donned his playing kit in Hong Kong yesterday , but only on a one-off basis . |
| 24 | In the exercise of that right the landlord may exclude the tenant from occupation , but only for a reasonable time , and only if to do so is essential for the execution of the work ( McGreal v Wake ( 1984 ) 269 EG 1254 ) . |
| 25 | Grimsbury Secondary Modern was on the other side of the town , and had to be accommodated — I believe it was , successfully — within the plans , but only for a transitional period . |
| 26 | In the end we all agree that AZT is an effective drug , but only for a short period . ’ |
| 27 | It seems that Gainsborough produced such works as favours for important clients , but only for a short period in his career , later preferring oil on paper for smaller portraits of this sort . |
| 28 | They had provided her with a local map , pin-pointing the exact location of the Château La Tour Monchauzet , and explaining she should take the Villereal road out of Issigeac , but only for a short distance . |
| 29 | But they do , they get paid a lot of money but only for a short period of time . |
| 30 | In the event , two professors — Moorcroft and Coleman — were appointed , but only for a brief period . |