Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] only [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second point , raised by Brown and his colleagues ( 1986c ) concerned the decision by Henderson to analyse the role of support only for those women completely free from any psychiatric symptoms . |
| 2 | Accordingly , he has argued , it should be of concern only to those involved in the respective private sector transactions . |
| 3 | As the build-up to the pending general election got under way , the position of the leader of the Liberal Democrats , Paddy Ashdown , came under scrutiny when on Feb. 5 he made a statement acknowledging that some years earlier he had had a " brief relationship " with a woman ( identified as Patricia Sullivan , now known under the name Howard ) ; he stressed , however , that this " should have remained a private and personal matter of concern only to those involved " . |
| 4 | This is the challenge of real democracy ; it 's very simple to espouse freedom of expression only for those you agree with . |
| 5 | Pameton is little publicised because it is of value only to that small number of people who may misuse medicines . |
| 6 | PEAS capital gains tax savings were of value only to those whose capital gains had in the given year exceeded the free allowance — not a predicament in which the average punter found himself . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , this also means that they are of value only to those users who have the expertise and the authority to make more detailed investigations . |
| 8 | And again to spell that out erm the way it needs to work in practice I believe is that in its local plan a local authority should be able to define a site which it would regard as suitable for development only for these strategically important reasons . |
| 9 | When this is done , the LIFESPAN display of the package contents will show the constituent modules ( even though the new ones exist in name only at this point ) . |
| 10 | Nevertheless Poland was still encumbered by a poorly developed industrial sector , a primitive , almost feudal , agricultural system , an under-funded banking sector and a poorly integrated railway system , and was hampered by the fact that it paid out 40 per cent of Gross National Income ( approximately 28 per cent of all government expenditure ) to maintain an army that was second in size only to that of Russia . |
| 11 | Damage to the cervical spine from rheumatoid arthritis has been noted in 30% to 46% of necropsy studies and is second in frequency only to that seen in the metatarsophalangeal joints . |
| 12 | Shoppers approaching what LET have named The Galleries from New Street and High Street will be channeled along a brand new street flanked by granite and stone-clad pseudo-Classical shops and offices , entering the new mall under a vast glazed dome , second in diameter only to that of St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 13 | Tickets for Olds Scumford on New Years day are on sale only to those people who went to the Sunderland away game . |
| 14 | The son of a woman disgraced by the scandal of divorce , brought back to respectability only by some freak of fate . |
| 15 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |