Example sentences of "only partial " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on and after that date the Inheritance ( Family Provision ) Act 1938 gives to the dependants of a testator , and the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 gives to those of an intestate , power to apply to the court for a reasonable maintenance out of the estate , if such is not provided by the will , or the law of intestacy , or the combined operation of will and law where the intestacy was only partial . |
| 2 | And what impact it had made was soon dissipated when it was realized that the ‘ total ’ war was still only partial after all , and that the well-to-do and high-and-mighty were still able to avoid the burdens which fell on ordinary people . |
| 3 | Even though at best only partial success was attained in ‘ imposing ’ this image on the still unbroken socialist/communist and catholic subcultures , where there were strong ideological counters to acceptance of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , and on sections of the upper classes whose status-conscious élitism provided a continuing barrier to the appeal of populist leadership images , there can be no doubt that the penetration of the propagated ‘ Hitler myth ’ was deep , especially , but by no means only , among the German middle classes . |
| 4 | The recovery was only partial , the price closing down 1½ at 18p . |
| 5 | It is a direct intuition of God , in effect a hotline that bypasses the ambiguous world of the senses that might indeed provide only partial or uncertain evidence of the Deity . |
| 6 | They are a useful , if only partial , substitute for cloths . |
| 7 | Our comprehension , however , based as it is on observation , intuition , and guesswork is always only partial . |
| 8 | If Richmond bureau , which is seriously committed to the use of computers for the purpose , can extract only partial data from clients , bureaux that are less convinced of its value are likely to obtain a very sparse picture of their clients using this method . |
| 9 | Such measures are the provision of cycle paths and bus lanes and the introduction of 30 km/h zones with only partial reconstruction of the streets within the zone . |
| 10 | Some petals do not fully develop and may be only partial petals , so in practice the actual number can mean pretty well anything . |
| 11 | Its branches fork from an implanted bud just above ground level and normally make 2–4ft ( 0.6–1.2m ) high , although — and this has to be said — too often encouraged by incorrect and only partial pruning that permits new growth to break not from near ground level but from 1ft ( 0.3m ) , 2ft ( 0.6m ) , or even higher , they are frequently to be seen consisting of younger bloom bearing growth on top of old barky stems , the whole reaching 5ft ( 1.5m ) , even 6ft ( 1.8m ) , or more in height . |
| 12 | The failure may be only partial . |
| 13 | The fact that the transfer of property rights was only partial and conditional gave them the guarantee of security in old age , and the people involved in such transactions were not necessarily children or even relatives . |
| 14 | Although the eclipse is only partial at the two highest frequencies , so that the pulses are observed throughout the orbit , strong pulses are seen for only about one-quarter of the time at 606MHz , close to phase 0.75 when the pulsar is nearest to the Earth . |
| 15 | Noel 's colleagues all wish him well and the very best of health in his retirement , which fortunately is only partial since for the next few years he remains with us as Research Professor in German . |
| 16 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |
| 17 | The comparison was only partial , since we considered only a selection of possible stylistic variants . |
| 18 | Edith J. Morley , for instance , writes of the " inexplicable value " of great poetry , and advances the view that such poetry " can explain itself only " by existing " so that in one sense every attempt at an explanation , however worthwhile , is doomed in advance to failure , or , at best , only partial success . " |
| 19 | F2 rules out the suggestion that the non-inferential justification of basic beliefs is only partial , and needs supplementing by appeal to other beliefs . |
| 20 | These two functions are only partial . |
| 21 | It was the first sound of only partial acceptance ; Jezrael was waiting for more . |
| 22 | These schemes are regarded as models that should be extended to those whose disability is congenital or arises out of non-industrial disease or accident , for whom cover , though recently improved , is still only partial . |
| 23 | Findings gleaned from these research literatures provide only partial insights into the issues confronting mothers caring in poverty . |
| 24 | models are : ( a ) they take time to be developed , and are thus less useful for producing quick answers , ( b ) they can represent an over-simplified picture of a particular set of conditions , and therefore may suggest only partial solutions , and ( c ) they may be resisted by line managers on the grounds that such models are too theoretical to be put into practice . |
| 25 | Several analysts in recent years , most notably Schorske , Bell , Marshall Berman , and T. J. Clark , have attempted to tackle this issue , though they have , I think , enjoyed only partial success . |
| 26 | This nearly spherically symmetrical mass distribution helps explain why the synchronous rotation of Mercury is only partial ( compare section 4.2 ) . |
| 27 | At best , that understanding is only partial , but anthropologists would claim that they have a much better insight into the motives and perceptions of " other people " than do scholars who work within other conventions — whether they be those of pure science or of the humanities . |
| 28 | It 's only partial , fortunately , but that may change . |
| 29 | To obtain such information is costly and there are people or groups with an incentive to provide only partial or distorted information . |
| 30 | If the substitution is only partial ( involving only one , say , of a group of symmetry-related atoms ) the resulting reduction of molecular symmetry may alter the selection rules . |