Example sentences of "only [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all .
2 Only the person to whom the duty of confidence is owed will be allowed to sue ; in other words , an outsider who is adversely affected by trading in shares to which the information relates , will again have no remedy .
3 They also accept that the brain has certain innate dispositions , if only the disposition to be reinforced by particular stimuli .
4 Only the exhortation to ‘ all Party organizations ’ on 28 March 1933 to carry out a nation-wide boycott aimed at Jewish businesses , goods , doctors , and lawyers , starting on 1 April , concentrated explicitly on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ .
5 We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech .
6 I suppose the only the balance to that is to say
7 Change in rural transport is not only the key to many of the changes outlined in Chapters 4 and 5 , but it is also a central connecting factor linking service provision and rural deprivation .
8 Green candidate , Bill Hughes sees investment in more public transport as not only the key to an improved environment , but also to an improved economy .
9 A variation on this is to hold in each entry in the translation table , not only the value to be placed in the destination string , but also the address of a new translation table to be used for the next source character .
10 The Royal Commission publishes an Annual Review of its work ( with maps and photographs ) and this is a worthwhile document to seek out , for it gives not only the background to the work undertaken but keeps the publications record up-to-date .
11 If this image were displayed using the methods described earlier it would lack very dark values ( 0–24 ) as well as medium to bright values ( 91–255 ) and would cover only the dark to medium grey range .
12 If only the solution to the Church 's other problems were as straightforward .
13 This is the classic position , and with only the bat to be raised the batsman is in position to move back or forward while at the same time able to focus on the ball .
14 The generation before the Revolution saw not only the opposition to royal power offered by the parlements and their allies but a growth in criticism of the monarchical regime of a more fundamental and ultimately more dangerous kind .
15 Lovely as the peak experience is , it is only the path to the transcendent .
16 Only the succession to the presidency of the Lebanese army commander Fouad Chehab , and his refusal to commit the army to the struggle , preserved the balance of power in Lebanon .
17 Even if X. Ray was only the Baptist to some little woodchuck 's saviour , I do know that nothing died with Osvaldo except his own faults .
18 ( iii ) Pupils should consider not only the extent to which English has changed since Shakespeare 's day but also some of the ways in which it is changing now .
19 So far we have considered only the extent to which changes in stimulus effectiveness might be revealed by changes in the ability of a stimulus to evoke its UR ; but , according to the theory , a loss of effectiveness will have other effects .
20 In the process it will be necessary to examine not only the extent to which geographic issues feature on the policy issues agenda in these fields but also the institutional context which governs decision-making and the extent to which data are available for research and policy analysis purposes .
21 A computer is a wonderfully useful tool but it will be only a nuisance to your wife if all the language data is locked up on disks and she has nothing to look at in a spare five minutes .
22 Inflation increased by only a fraction to 3.2% .
23 Wilkie was only a friend to whom she chattered .
24 The importance of withdrawal brings us back to the issue of women 's sexual dependency and the fact that some degree of male cooperation was necessary , if only a willingness to be pushed out of the way .
25 When I reached Ostend at midday on 16th there was no ticket but only a message to the effect that I had to buy another one .
26 These methods , therefore , are only a beginning to your deciding on the right goal weight for you .
27 The sequence of events in the creation of a bank bill is in Figure 9.4 , and is only a modification to that for commercial bills .
28 It was — only a day to him , but to her …
29 At the siege of Belle-Isle I was there all the while ; All the while , all the while , At the siege of Belle-Isle Until last month these lines were only a nursery-rhyme to me , accompanied in my memory by a crude illustration of a tower by the sea and square-rigged warship balancing on humped waves .
30 I must try to remember , Celia said to herself , that I am only a statistic to Dr Shalcross , possibly a case history she might wish to quote , anonymously , because I do n't happen to run true to form .
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