Example sentences of "in [noun sg] only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This magnificent constellation is arguably second in splendour only to Orion . |
| 2 | The bank provided finance for our client to exchange contracts , this the deposit , and then subsequently the attempt to obtain full security over their proposed lendings by including security over a property at Frinton on Sea which had been left in part only to our client upon his father 's death . |
| 3 | It was following immediately upon this that , on 10 September , Leslie wrote to me excitedly about a small enemy landing — a fact that was finally denied , and explained by Attlee in Parliament only in 1946 . |
| 4 | But Thomas Kuhn has argued that even the concepts and laws become intelligible in practice only as components of a disciplinary matrix which he calls the ‘ paradigm ’ , in which the scientist learns to apply them through concrete instances of problem-solving which serve as models in approaching new puzzles . |
| 5 | This is because each program in the category is content-free , highly versatile , limited in practice only by the user 's imagination . |
| 6 | As a safeguard , the Bank of Italy 's rules are likely to allow banks to take stakes in industry only as the strength of their balance sheets and the depth of their merchant-banking experience permit . |
| 7 | The RP is involved in remembrement only in an advisory capacity ; they have to balance the need for such farmland rationalisation with ecological and landscape considerations . |
| 8 | Any re-bindings are in effect only for the duration of the CLI command file . |
| 9 | The House of Lords held that parental rights are recognised in law only for so long as they are needed for the protection of the child . |
| 10 | Much rarer than Greater Sandplover , from which distinguishable in winter only by size , darker plumage , shorter , less stout bill and more gregarious habits ; in summer both sexes as male Greater Sandplover but with breast warm buff . |
| 11 | The black sands were wind-eroded basalt , and where parts of the sheet remained intact — and in basins and wadis — there was still radioactivity so that the desert could be navigated in safety only by the well-tried routes . |
| 12 | Although trenches had been constructed on a limited scale in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5 , they became a significant factor in warfare only in World War I. By the end of 1914 , the conflict had developed into what amounted to a siege and both Allied and German soldiers dug trenches to protect themselves from enemy small-arms and machine-gun fire . |
| 13 | Worldwide , indeed , ‘ exotic ’ species introduced by human beings have become a major cause of extinctions : probably second in importance only to loss of habitat . |
| 14 | The Queen 's Way , which ran at right angles to the King 's Way , was to have a massive terminal station at its head , dominating Connaught Circus and second in importance only to the Viceroy 's palace on the Raisina Acropolis at the head of King 's Way . |
| 15 | As sources of essential sociable interaction and ‘ informal ’ support and care , these networks are second in importance only to the nuclear family . |
| 16 | Its confidence appeared to be growing , for in 1864 the tsar enacted three measures that were second in importance only to the emancipation itself . |
| 17 | In Figure 2.15A we can imagine a segment of the Earth 's surface ( ABE ) which has split into two , the two halves ( ABC and ADE ) remaining in contact only at point A. Point A is the pole of rotation about which movement occurs , and the separation of originally adjacent points on each segment occurs along small circles about this point . |
| 18 | 1.50 Once the 21 days for acceptance have passed or the trial has started the plaintiff can take the money in court only with the defendant 's consent or by order unless the payment in itself was made or increased after the trial started , when he has two days to accept , but must do so before the judge begins to deliver his judgment ( RSC Ord 22 , r5 ; CCR Ord 11 , r3 ) . |
| 19 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 20 | If an expert sues for his fees , the entitlement and/or the amount could be challenged in court only by reference to the contract made by the parties about the fees . |
| 21 | Applicants should apply in person only at the Carlton Highland between 2.30pm and 8pm and ask for Mark Linnane in Training Room 329 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 24 | At a place known in advance only to a few , the motorcade comes to a halt . |
| 25 | There is no reason to suppose that these beautifully caparisoned vessels were in use only round the coast of Thera ; they were probably not intended for long voyages on the open sea , but we can imagine that very similar passenger ships plied round the coasts of Crete , gliding elegantly from bay to bay . |
| 26 | First , however , it disposed of the concept of ‘ design technician ’ put forward by the Coldstream-Summerson Report , a concept which had evoked a hostile reception from the art colleges in 1970 , on the grounds that the expression seemed to be in use only in the ceramics industry . |
| 27 | ( 6 ) The proviso protects the granting of a new licence in respect only of the disqualifications mentioned in the section . |
| 28 | He was guilty under s.2(1) ( b ) in respect only of the debts made while he was manager and not of debts incurred previously by the hotel owner . |
| 29 | In a Cabinet reshuffle on Oct. 10 the Interior Minister , Abdullah Kallal , became in addition Minister of State , making him second in rank only to Prime Minister Hamed Karoui . |
| 30 | Or , it might be added if we wish to consider history rather than geography , medieval Europeans represented women as sexually insatiable , while the Victorians represented them as naturally frigid , engaging in sex only as a marital duty . |