Example sentences of "only to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave rise not only to a new religious movement of tremendous vitality , but also to tales of miracles and wonders . |
| 2 | Hundreds of travellers , parked illegally in a cattle market , moved off peacefully today … but only to a new site sixty yards away . |
| 3 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 4 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 5 | They confound you because there are times when conditions are compatible only to a warm bed yet you end the day with a netful of fish . |
| 6 | Thus an exclusion clause in a contract is a defence available only to a contracted party and only against the other contracted party , Scruttons v. Midland Silicones ( 1962 H.L. ) . |
| 7 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 8 | When John Howard died , ‘ Texas ’ was known only to a small number of Mexicans , American Indians and the occasional settler who had been thrown out of , or wandered away from , the established ‘ colonies ’ to the north and east . |
| 9 | Third , by contrast with a modern bureaucracy , the departments of medieval government were only to a small extent defined by areas in which they worked . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When either the supply or the demand curve for a good or service is very inelastic , the imposition of a tax will lead only to a small change in quantity . |
| 12 | It related , moreover , only to a small and atypical part of the empire . |
| 13 | ‘ The contents were known only to a small team of journalists who worked off-site on the project . |
| 14 | Although there is some laxity in the use of the term , ‘ broadside ’ or ‘ broadsheet ’ should properly be applied only to a complete , undivided large sheet , printed on one side . |
| 15 | I have concluded that either a ) the database was saved only to a floppy disk and taken away by your student , or b ) it was a WORKS database and was irretrievably lost when my hard disk crashed last year . |
| 16 | The objective here is to take a turn on a transaction that is subject only to a low rate of taxation . |
| 17 | However , when the technology has been developed , the R&D may be transferred to an IOFC location so that the income is subject only to a low rate of tax . |
| 18 | And if this process can be conceived as relevant not only to a possible future but to processes of critique and struggle now , then to point to the emergence of black American , non-Western and European ‘ folk ’ elements within mass produced popular music commodities — with however ambivalent results — may be the historically most significant way in which we can put Adorno 's critical pessimism in its correct place . |
| 19 | Nor does the estate come to an end with the tenant 's death : it passes to his heirs , but only to a limited class of heirs , ‘ the heirs of his body ’ , that is , his descendants . |
| 20 | Exceptions to this rule should apply only to a limited number of sectors enumerated in the Treaty . ’ |
| 21 | Finally , Rawls is only to a limited extent concerned with correcting inequalities in the ability to promote the good which are due to one 's natural endowments ( the difference principle is about social , not natural , primary goods ) . |
| 22 | They lessen the working value of the dog only to a limited degree , but they can obscure and distort the typical image of the breed . |
| 23 | Perhaps one of the most valuable assets of TL is restoring some tangible contact with the environment , although only to a limited extent . |
| 24 | BL have used carousels , but only to a limited degree and , it would appear , only where they were particularly vital to insulate the biggest machines from human variability . |
| 25 | Consequently , the defence account of mistake is of general applicability whereas the definitional account can apply only to a limited range of cases . |
| 26 | In the past the courts have been willing to interfere only to a limited extent in the use of prerogative power . |
| 27 | Now — but only to a limited extent — the officer has lost some discretion in handling routine cases . |
| 28 | When the market making arm of the company has run down its holdings , in-house arbitrage of overpricings ( which involves ‘ buying ’ shares from the market maker ) will be possible only to a limited degree . |
| 29 | A few instances of forged documentation and fraud have subsequently occurred , but only to a limited extent . |
| 30 | Only in that moment of self-reflection can any real state of intellectual freedom be attained ; and then only to a limited degree . |