Example sentences of "only up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But only up to a point , you see . |
| 2 | Only up to a point : without oil Saddam Hussein would not have invaded Kuwait ; nor would his invasion have threatened the West 's security . |
| 3 | McFarlane took it to heart also , but only up to a point . |
| 4 | The metrics in both regions are unaltered , since a null electromagnetic field is defined by the metric only up to a constant duality rotation . |
| 5 | Tolkien 's opinions here are clear only up to a point . |
| 6 | Burton 's local fame grew in contradicting this up to a point — but only up to a point . |
| 7 | An American president can decide to focus on domestic policy only up to a point ; events in the wider world , leaders of other countries , have a habit of eating into time that the president thought he would spend on other things . |
| 8 | The three businessmen-politicians can be lumped together , but only up to a point . |
| 9 | Even the conservatives in the House could not be entirely depended on , for all but a few of them were no more than ‘ Hooverites ’ to use Stockman 's contemptuous label ; they were keen on budget-cutting only up to a point and were anxious that the budget should be balanced , but they had no stomach for swingeing tax cuts — the main article of the supply-side faith . |
| 10 | Productivity increases as we spend more time and energy , but only up to a critical point . |
| 11 | The answer is , yes it is , but only up to a point . |
| 12 | ‘ Though that is true only up to a point — last year after the dog fox was killed on the road the vixen called for three nights , the saddest sound I ever heard . ’ |
| 13 | But only up to a point . |
| 14 | Subsection ( 5 ) defines ‘ relevant shares ’ as : ‘ shares in the company other than — ( a ) shares which as respects dividends and capital carry a right to participate only up to a specified amount in a distribution , and ( b ) shares which are held by a person who acquired them in pursuance of an employees ’ share scheme or , in the case of shares which have not been allotted , are to be allotted in pursuance of such a scheme . ’ |
| 15 | That is true only up to a point . |
| 16 | That is true , but only up to a point ; I have found the procedures laborious at times but usually vital , and SCOTVEC 's full-time officers invariably helpful and cheery . |
| 17 | Well only up to a point Lord Copper . |
| 18 | There they were brought up by angels , but only up to the ideal age : |
| 19 | The above arguments lead to the conclusion that the usual initial data for colliding plane waves leads to a unique solution only up to the topological singularities and in regions II and III , and to the ‘ focusing ’ singularity in the interaction region . |
| 20 | It may be noticed too that our analysis rather simplified the relation between awareness and spontaneity , taking account of the awareness only up to the rousing of the impulse . |
| 21 | the person named can then write in the figures , but only up to the amount stated . |
| 22 | Criticism and discussion must , therefore , be solicited and encouraged , but never for its own sake , and only up to the point that decision is taken . |
| 23 | Such an adult sex-ratio buffer as proposed here is quite distinct from Fisher 's principle for sex ratio , which would operate only up to the end of parental care . |
| 24 | Though Halsey 's figures reach only up to the mid-1960s , other data show that the expansion of universities from the late 1960s onwards has not benefited the working class as much as the professional classes . |
| 25 | He put it best , perhaps , when he said that the writer must wade into life as into the sea , but only up to the navel . |
| 26 | In modern times , we have effectively removed the third possibility above by redefining the goal of science : our aim is to formulate a set of laws that enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty principle . |
| 27 | But you paint only up to the point on which your own marginal benefit equals the marginal cost of the paint you buy and the time you spend . |
| 28 | However , it required this to be done only up to the amount of the buyer 's outstanding indebtedness to the seller . |
| 29 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 30 | He 's not only up against the ghost of Simon Ellis , he 's paying this other man 's bill . |