Example sentences of "[adv] only in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of the spectacle is an effective term which now has a wide currency , but perhaps only in a sense which approximates its use by the Situationists . |
| 2 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 3 | ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’ |
| 4 | You have to train people to become doctors or engineers or professors , and at the same time to train them in questioning all that — not only in a critical way , but I would say in a deconstructive way . |
| 5 | With cinema admissions expanding rapidly , Rank was not only in a buoyant financial condition , but also in a strong position to negotiate a deal , which would secure his films a fair return from the US market , with major American companies increasingly concerned to protect their UK earnings . |
| 6 | Basingstoke can look back with pride , not only in a record crowd of 4,091 but in extending the reputation of non-League clubs for friendliness . |
| 7 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 8 | Not only in a simple financial sense but also in a spiritual sense . |
| 9 | It was important , bearing in mind private viewing , that bodies should be not only as wholesome as possible but also as well dressed ; and dressed not only in a material according to social status but also in as well upholstered a coffin as funds would permit . |
| 10 | Teddy has lots of people to thank , including such nice FlyPast -type people as W/C Chris Booth of 8 Squadron who got him flying not only in a Shackleton , but in 8 Squadron 's new Boeing E–3 Spinning Coffee Table ; Teddy 's logbook itself came courtesy of Vulcan XH558 ; thanks also to Plane Sailing , Sally B , the Old Flying Machine Company , the Fighter Collection and the Shuttleworth Collection . |
| 11 | Berridge ( 1985 ) , for example , describes the considerable isolation of residential workers , not only in a personal sense , but also professionally . |
| 12 | The result was evident not only in a growing emigration movement but also in the disproportionately high number of Jews in the most radical political parties . |
| 13 | The assessment of various regulatory alternatives to solve financial market regulatory problems requires governments and regulators to make appropriate policy choices not only in a reasoned and cost-effective way , but with regard to issues of fairness . |
| 14 | Epithets such as " naughty " or " dirty " , or their implication , may result not only in a general feeling of unworthiness in the child but also in a sense that they apply to anal-genital matters as a whole . |
| 15 | Yes , I gave him my heart … and my body , put willingly and joyfully at his continual disposal , not only in a sexual way but as general factotum . |
| 16 | A long struggle by writers to establish first domestic and then international copyright resulted not only in a new concept of literary property but new , or at least amended , social relationships of writers . |
| 17 | This results not only in a shift along the marginal productivity of labour curves , but in shifts in the positions of the curves . |
| 18 | Repeated government " failure " results not only in a withdrawal of support from specific administrations by the electorate but eventually disillusionment with the institutions and processes of political democracy itself . |
| 19 | Journal literature is very widespread indeed and any researcher may find himself having to read not only in an academic subject area but also in the professional or trade journals too . |
| 20 | Starting from the assumption that capitalist equilibrium is a mobile one , it is possible to precipitate dis-equilibrium not only in an upward direction , but also in a downward direction : |
| 21 | Reduced Ca 2+ induced under conditions of light adaptation will result not only in an increase in cGMP , but also in a higher affinity of the channel for cGMP . |
| 22 | Since a progressive tax means that the rich pay more , not only in an absolute sense , but as a proportion of their total income , we need to know more than that the marginal rate of tax rises with income . |
| 23 | The role of land use in modifying lake acidity is important not only in an overall scientific understanding of the process , but more urgently because of the need to control sulphur and nitrogen emissions , primarily from power plants . |
| 24 | Biblical scholars have long noticed , and based arguments on , the occurrence of hapax legomena , or words which occur once only in a given text or author . |
| 25 | The effort to produce a technical or elevated alternative to " length " results here only in a comic effect ( a sort of MALAPROPISM , or effect of trying to use words which are imperfectly understood ) . |
| 26 | " Reform " , he wrote , " can be undertaken here only in an authoritarian manner ( vlast'iu ) " . |
| 27 | The publication day of Hank Stych 's book went unremarked in Tollemarche , mainly because the only bookseller in the town had not had time to unpack his new stock , and book reviews were featured only once a month in the Tollemarche Advent and then only in an obscure corner of an inner page . |
| 28 | Democracy can only advise and consent , and then only in an indirect and spasmodic manner . " |
| 29 | When he next turned his attention to the matter , The Times leader writer had to explain to his readers that the law of debtor and creditor was as yet only in a transitional state and that a very unsatisfactory one . |
| 30 | The results were often not good , yet only in a few severe cases did HMI go in and make an impact with its report . |