Example sentences of "only [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Language has the ability to stimulate and motivate , not only through appeals to logic but also through appeals to emotion ( Burke , 1950 ; Pfeffer , 1981 ; Edelman , 1964 ) . |
| 2 | Since the GCBS waybill lacks the spaces for the data that usually accompanies combined or multi-modal transport , it is suitable only for port to port and through transport . |
| 3 | It was Mr Carway who discovered that the holding in Laforza 's parent company , the Jersey-registered AIUK , was only under option to Eagle , not directly owned by it . |
| 4 | In the service sector the predicted relationship appeared to obtain , but again only with respect to agency workers ( Table 3.10 ) . |
| 5 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
| 6 | True , barges and wagons alike were drawn by horses , but the latter did not have to negociate flights of locks ( the Rochdale Canal had ninety-two locks in only 33 miles ) , and until the advent of " fly boats " at the very end of the canal era there was no night working , with the canals open only from sunrise to sunset . |
| 7 | The spirit of brotherhood travels not only from country to country but also from time to time . |
| 8 | However , one can see that the relative emphasis on these four factors may vary ( and sometimes conflict ) not only from job to job ( in some cases expertise is of the essence , in others the degree content is virtually irrelevant , and ability and ‘ personality ’ are the key things ) but from one employer and even personnel manager to another . |
| 9 | These practices , they further note , ‘ varied not only from region to region and from time to time but also from social class to social class , so that their impact on field systems and rural settlement patterns is complex and not easy to determine . ’ |
| 10 | How do you ring the changes so that the mood alters , not only from month to month but from one part of the garden to another ? |
| 11 | Timber for construction needs to be acquired only from time to time , and enough firewood can be collected in one journey to last several months . |
| 12 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 13 | It is , after all , one of the world 's most expensive spices , second only in cost to saffron itself . |
| 14 | My dictionary defines ‘ solo ’ only in reference to music , to whist and to aviation . |
| 15 | It can not have been only in relation to land that £40 had a special significance . |
| 16 | Earlier sections of this chapter have indicated the existence of recent , major changes within manufacturing in the UK economy , in the geography of manufacturing and in uneven development more widely ( for uneven development can not be considered only in relation to manufacturing — and later chapters will add to this wider picture ) . |
| 17 | When employees ' share schemes first came to be introduced here , the normal practice was to create a special class of shares with restricted rights regarding , in particular , votes and transferability ; only in relation to share option schemes , designed as incentive to top management , were ordinary voting equity shares on offer . |
| 18 | There are indeed times when a lemon as a seasoning seems second only in importance to salt . |
| 19 | Briefly , plasma antibodies present only by adhesion to cell membranes were removed by preliminary incubation of PBL and careful washing . |