Example sentences of "a [noun sg] only [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That problem is not a function only of Government or their housing policy — it is much more deep-seated and complex than that . |
| 2 | If control and data signals are propagated through the circuits of a computer only at time instants controlled by a master " clock " or pulse generator , then we have a synchronous computer . |
| 3 | Probably mandamus is available as a remedy only in respect of public duties , that is , duties which are not shared with private citizens . |
| 4 | He accepts it only because of what he calls ‘ an insuperable logical difficulty ’ : position is not a quality , so a sensation can convey to us the position of a stimulus only by virtue of our ability to interpret something about it as meaning a certain position . |
| 5 | Dismissing the anti-spirits movement 's idea of imposing a pledge only to moderation in wine and beer , he announced amid cheers that ‘ nothing but the tee-total would do ’ or , according to some accounts , ‘ I 'll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever . ’ |
| 6 | For it was in the end a revolution only in thought , not in action . |
| 7 | It differs from a moon-shot only in degree . |
| 8 | Joyce 's drawling nasal delivery ( the result of a broken nose in his schooldays ) attracted widespread interest in Britain , where no restrictions were placed on listening to enemy broadcasts , and he was quickly dubbed ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ , a kind of malign Bertie Wooster ( see Sir P. G. Wodehouse , q.v. ) , whose opinions were a subject only for entertainment . |
| 9 | Anti-semitism was not a matter only of concern to Jews ; all Social Democrats must campaign against it — or leave the party . |
| 10 | I am presumably using words literally when the metaphor is a matter only of etymology ( ‘ insight ’ ) , and feel still more confident of it when the etymology belongs to the Latin ancestor of the word ( ‘ intuition ’ , from intueor ‘ gaze at ’ ) . |
| 11 | To the majority of performers , cash advances of any substance were a rarity , contracts a thing only of myth . |
| 12 | In the agriculture and forestry sector the committee would set a target only for rice production , leaving export quotas for other major products such as rubber and coffee to be set by government departments . |
| 13 | She must live with women , be a mother only to girl children . |