Example sentences of "only [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Z2 Carbonate is also widely known as the Hauptdolomit ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Rhys 1975 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Wagner et a/. 1978 ) but strictly speaking this name only refers to a particular part of the formation . |
| 2 | She and her husband had only moved to a government-sponsored caravan park south of Miami after Hurricane Andrew destroyed their home last August . |
| 3 | French biologists ignored Darwin and only turned to a Lamarckian version of evolutionism in the 1880s . |
| 4 | If intellectualism only leads to a cultivated despair or a hankering after dictatorship , then it is time to give ordinary intelligence a chance . |
| 5 | ‘ We are n't interested in quoting prices over the phone , because that only leads to a Dutch auction . |
| 6 | Major , addressing the Welsh Conservative Party conference on June 14 , dismissed those " sulking on the fringe of talks about the destiny of Europe " and declared that " the British government and the British parliament would only move to a single currency if they took a further , separate and explicit decision to do so , not just when to do so but whether to do so at all " . |
| 7 | These traces not only witness to a sad history , but also hint of glorious possibilities . |
| 8 | The general public might have been disappointed but they needed only refer to a contemporary poem then available : |
| 9 | They only appeal to a few , and some people are repelled by them . |
| 10 | Except in relation to discretionary management , the rule as such only applies to a private customer and thus , to some extent , non-private customers are left to make their own judgement as to the frequency of dealings . |
| 11 | Three hundred thousand foxes are killed annually in this country , either through hunting , which only attributes to a small two point percent , shooting , gassing , snaring , all of which happen during the hunting season as well . |
| 12 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 13 | This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds . |
| 14 | They note that for a deviation Δ of 10 -11 the accumulated effect over a year would only amount to a relative velocity of 1 µm s -1 towards the Sun ! |
| 15 | The answer is probably yes , provided there were concessionary tax rates for the retired and proper facilities for their leisure and recreation ; for surely these people only go to a foreign land for these reasons ? |
| 16 | This provision may cause confusion to clients as they will not understand that it only relates to a late completion date . |
| 17 | Shakespeare evidently shared Donne 's dissatisfaction with the extant convention , agreed with him that unfulfilled love was a trope that could only lead to a limited number of stereotyped situations . |
| 18 | This can only lead to a partial picture where lenders try to succeed within their own parameters , without all the facts on the likely borrower . |
| 19 | With a very shallow L curve ( as in Figure 18.3 ) , a rise in money supply from M to M' will only lead to a small fall in the rate of interest from r 1 to r 2 . |
| 20 | ‘ Halliwell said that these sexual experiments can only lead to a dead end . |
| 21 | This exploratory and performance-based approach will not only lead to a deeper understanding of the text in question ( a dramatic exploration of a speech in Shakespeare , for instance , will show how the placing of different emphases can alter fundamentally one 's interpretation of character or meaning ) , but will also lead to an understanding of the play as theatre . |
| 22 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 23 | The company 's hotels are run as autonomous units , and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent . |
| 24 | I like to wear a lightweight windproof while travelling and trekking , only resorting to a waterproof when it is really wet . |
| 25 | " A tomboy 's like a whistling woman and a crowing hen , who can only come to a bad end . |
| 26 | The Commission considered that there was not only one beverage packaging market comprising glass , plastic and cans , but that packaging products may belong to separate markets which only compete to a limited extent . |