Example sentences of "only to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is simply saying that each market participant , in laying his buying or selling plans , must pay careful heed not only to the prospective decisions of those to whom he hopes to sell or from whom he hopes to buy — as an implication of the latter — also to the prospective decisions of others whose decisions to sell or to buy may compete with his own . |
| 2 | Cats are not particularly popular there , it seems , and this particular breed became smaller and smaller as an adaptation not only to the hot climates but also to the need to find restricted hiding-places . |
| 3 | And that , I reflected on the final leg , enveloped in air-conditioned heat and six-speaker stereo sound , is why the Discovery is so uniquely suited , not only to the rough and tumble of off-road riding , but also to the equal rigours of life in Knightsbridge and Notting Hill Gate . |
| 4 | In the 1970s , the House of Lords Select Committee suggested that Article 235 could extend only to the economic and financial purposes provided for by Article 2 of the Treaty . |
| 5 | The Bogomil heresy , which first appeared in Macedonia during the tenth century , was a disruptive force not only to the Byzantine Church but also to those rulers — Bulgar , Serb or Byzantine — whose authority was derived from the spiritual sanction of the Patriarch of Constantinople . |
| 6 | This applies not only to the small number of the very old who live in three-generational households , although that throws up some particular issues and problems , it is equally relevant when there are triangular interactions , such as husband , wife and old person , or to situations when the old person lives alone but is closely supported by kin . |
| 7 | And this new form of entertainment was available not only to the ordinary citizens of the Republic but to the innumerable foreigners who came for commerce or pleasure . |
| 8 | In the first place , the questions relate only to the actual house and land being conveyed . |
| 9 | ( a ) The ground of the unsuitability of the applicant applies not only to the actual applicant but also , where the applicant is not an individual person , to the person named in the application as the person to be responsible for the day-to-day running of the premises under the provisions of 5.11 and to the person on whose behalf or for whose benefit the premises are run . |
| 10 | Four of their Lordships held that ‘ in furtherance ’ referred only to the subjective state of mind of the defendant and that he so acted if his purpose was to help the parties in the dispute to achieve their objectives and if he honestly and reasonably believed his actions would do so . |
| 11 | Because most of our patients were men ( 96% ) , our observations may apply only to the male population . |
| 12 | In a famous episode in February 1985 , Oxford University congregation voted by a 3 to 1 majority to deny the Prime Minister an honorary degree , a rebuff previously extended only to the late President Bhutto of Pakistan . |
| 13 | The original definition contained 129 words , related not only to the financial sense ( i.e. charge as in ’ require payment ’ ) but also to the ’ electrical charge ’ sense and the ’ military charge ’ sense , etc . |
| 14 | But it is not only to the institutionalised abuse of animals that we must turn if we are progressively to disengage ourselves . |
| 15 | Oh , the patient looked a mess , but Kath had seen the enormous care that had gone into the alignment of each suture , the meticulous attention not only to the innumerable tiny little muscle fibres , nerves and blood vessels but to laughter lines and wrinkles to ensure that the tissues were realigned as closely as possible to their original position . |
| 16 | Even so-called low-cost homes remain access only to the middle class , and beyond the purchasing power of the poor majority . |
| 17 | Despite the undoubted hardship , not only to the famous such as the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West and other hon. Members , but to those who are known only to their families — I know from correspondence that many ordinary people suffer hardship because of what is said and done in court cases — I suggest to the House that we interfere with this at our peril , and at peril to our liberties and system of open justice . |
| 18 | That particular proposal was of interest only to the limited number of countries which have huissiers de justice , which prompted Professor Graveson when the issue was discussed in 1960 to express the traditional preference of the British Government for bilateral conventions , but the topic attracted more general interest and it was decided to re-examine the whole range of possibilities . |
| 19 | That procedure now applies only to the limited class of actions which are excepted from the effect of the new Ord 17 , r 11 . |
| 20 | Equally plainly , in this view disobedience is literally world-shattering ; to transgress or deviate from the law of nature , to ‘ fail , or swerve ’ ( i. 185 ) from one 's allotted course , is a perversion which brings ruin not only to the transgressive agent , but to every other dependent entity . |
| 21 | The basic principles of correction and praise apply not only to the well-balanced puppy , but also to the adult dog who has been acquired second-hand . |
| 22 | And because the series has not been directed only to the scholarly elite but to the Church at large , authors in the series have tried to keep the style comparatively light , though the content has been , we hope , of some weight . |
| 23 | The astonishing speed with which the two brother radicals developed their Pantisocratic scheme was testimony not only to the transforming effect they had on one another , but to the very weak foundations upon which the whole enterprise rested . |
| 24 | Thus while newspaper accounts and other sources ( including this one ) , often talk rather loosely about volcanic ‘ ashes ’ during an eruption , a vulcanologist properly restricts this term only to the smallest particles . |
| 25 | This question had little significance and was relevant only to the part-time farmers as most family farmers said they did not take holidays . |
| 26 | This homology is not confined only to the kinking proline residues and the long basic side chain of arginine but also includes the hydrophobic amino terminal valine or alanine . |
| 27 | On surrendering , the paramilitaries had admitted only to the illegal possession of arms and to having agreed to commit an offence . |
| 28 | The connection that is asserted to hold between a condition-set and its effect , when the effect has a probability of 1 , is akin only to the insufficient one allowed by the Humean accounts , in terms of constant conjunction . |
| 29 | some proteins are exposed only to the interior surface of the cell . |
| 30 | The great mass of them , those living on the lands unoccupied by nobility or church ( the so-called ‘ black ’ lands — as distinct from the ‘ black-earth ’ regions ) , owed allegiance only to the Grand Prince . |