Example sentences of "but only [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But only up to a point , you see . |
| 2 | McFarlane took it to heart also , but only up to a point . |
| 3 | Burton 's local fame grew in contradicting this up to a point — but only up to a point . |
| 4 | The three businessmen-politicians can be lumped together , but only up to a point . |
| 5 | The answer is , yes it is , but only up to a point . |
| 6 | But only up to a point . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | the person named can then write in the figures , but only up to the amount stated . |
| 10 | Butler 's examination of this policy from 1952 to the 1970s shows that the differences between the average list size of the four different areas have declined , but only slightly over the years and with a number of upward and downward fluctuations . |
| 11 | He makes a great deal , as we have seen , of the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus : but only once in the ministry does he speak of the disciples having the Spirit . |
| 12 | Evidence for this is so freely available even within a single language that it may be overlooked ; a random pair of examples from English , one abstract , one " concrete " , would be those in ( 40 ) and ( 41 ) , each showing the same notion present twice but only once in the guise of a noun : ( 40 ) the male ape has amazing strength the male ape is amazingly strong ( 41 ) Steve 's scarf was greasy there was grease on Steve 's scarf The question is not essentially affected by the need to enter certain caveats related to the superficial grammar of the language concerned ; thus in English , unlike for example Russian or Latin , there are relatively few nouns which can instantiate an entity without some article or other determiner playing a supporting part . |
| 13 | But only down to the tiles so mine 'd only be half way . |