Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun] only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all these months of forward movement only to be expected . |
| 2 | Martin Rosenbaum , the family adviser , added : ‘ This very narrow decision by the court shows that the Government can hang on to its defence of corporal punishment only by a hair 's breadth . ’ |
| 3 | Martin Rosenbaum , the family adviser , added : ‘ This very narrow decision by the court shows that the Government can hang on to its defence of corporal punishment only by a hair 's breadth . ’ |
| 4 | It is therefore feasible to make projections of future trends only in the case of opioid use , and so the remainder of this section focuses on users of opioids , of whom 98.5 per cent ( 776 out of 788 ) primarily used heroin . |
| 5 | By 1939 Europe could meet her own needs of agricultural products only in olive oil and wine ; in 1880 she could still do much better than this . |
| 6 | Elsewhere in Asia , stations were to emerge as the prime symbols of European power only at the end of the century . |
| 7 | Between the late-nineteenth century and the 1980s , there was a progressive decline in the occurrence of industrial confrontation only for it to dramatically reappear between 1983 and 1985 . |
| 8 | The Science Citation Index ( SCI ) lists citations of multi-authored publications only under the first-named author . |
| 9 | Choices of ends , as of means , are debatable in terms of public tests ( of whether things are in fact as the agent imagines them , whether his reactions as observed in his behaviour are as he feels them to be ) , but can take account of public observations only to the extent that they are subjectively confirmed . |
| 10 | While professional advisers can , and do , work towards ‘ once only ’ savings such as changes in the prescribing of generic drugs , the real control needed is the introduction of new products only after assessment of the health gain and financial consequences . |
| 11 | While under Polish rule , the Orthodox hierarchy in the Ukraine had been able to resist the spread of Catholic influence only by adopting many of the methods and some of the ideas characteristic of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 12 | Nagel refers to Adam Smith whom he takes to be advocating , as a matter of reason , the restriction of moral judgment only to that which the agent has done in a narrow sense because to attribute responsibility for that beyond the agent 's control seems irrational and is akin to strict liability . |