Example sentences of "solely a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 2 | With the reading of Hippolytus and the cracking of the outer shell of his cheerful , hard-working , no-nonsense self , introspection was running riot and ‘ spiritualism ’ — by which he clearly meant dabbling in affairs of the spirit rather than solely a preoccupation with the dead — had , by the summer of 1929 , taken a firm grip on him . |
| 3 | Concentrating on what you do well is not solely a Hanson preserve . |
| 4 | ‘ If this election were solely a choice between party leaders , Mr Major would be preferable . |
| 5 | The recent cognitive revolution in psychology has meant that an individual 's behaviour is now rarely viewed in simple behaviourist terms as solely a product of rewards and punishments , but is seen as influenced by the individual 's own , often idiosyncratic , view of their situation . |
| 6 | We will reduce the proportion of UK aid tied to the purchase of UK goods and services and ensure that help to British exports is solely a function of the Department of Trade and Industry , rather than the ODA . |
| 7 | Although from the way the Americans complain one would imagine such treachery is solely a British disease , more than 30 American citizens have been recently convicted of serious espionage offences . |
| 8 | The factory , too , is not solely a technical institution , it is a social organisation , influenced by political , social and economic aspects of society at large . |
| 9 | ‘ The justification for Hinkley C , ’ he said , ‘ is solely a justification based on the government diversity policy associated with the NFFO . ’ |
| 10 | By the 1850s , it was solely a corn mill , working up to the First World War . |
| 11 | point out that this change in procedure will tend to equalize the associative statutes of the two contexts and suggest that the context-specificity they observed in their first experiment was solely a result of their failure to equalize the two contexts in this respect . |
| 12 | The total cleaning effect of the solution is not solely a function of the detergency characteristics . |
| 13 | Strictly speaking , this is not solely a funboard technique but I include it here as it has such close links with the waterstart . |
| 14 | With systems comprising solely a Type II ‘ internal market ’ , the home authority would find itself very restricted in its health care planning role with little scope for ensuring that local needs and priorities are met . |
| 15 | We hope that primary prevention of attempted suicide will not continue to be solely a focus for conjecture . |
| 16 | It was , he said , solely a legal exercise and would n't physically change the rights of way . |
| 17 | The difference between the normal and the schizophrenic is , then , solely a matter of degree , depending upon the extent to which the products of autism become fixed in place or , alternatively , remain under rational control . |
| 18 | Despite being so ubiquitous , until now they 've been solely a male preserve . |
| 19 | Gallie concludes that the relatively greater emphasis upon authoritarian and paternalistic practices within the French context is not solely a reflection of managerial attitudes engendered by the structural characteristics of industry , as typified by a long predominance of small , family firms in which the employer regarded himself as having a right to exclusive control . |
| 20 | Arguably the indirect consular channel , like the modes of transmission still to be noted , is solely a creature of conventions . |
| 21 | Bea Campbell ( MT May ) is over-simplistic in suggesting that the Labour Party 's hesitancy in supporting the ‘ Do n't Pay ’ poll-tax movement is solely a consequence of its preoccupation with success in the next general election . |
| 22 | The choice is not solely a question of relative bargaining power , but also one of assumptions about the role of the state . |
| 23 | The Chamber became solely a domestic household institution , but Wards and the Duchy of Lancaster maintained an independent existence . |
| 24 | It is true that ‘ bad ’ housing is not solely a rural problem , just as it is not exclusively urban . |
| 25 | Manufacturing establishments were more likely to be users of agency workers , service establishments of fixed-term contract workers , although this difference was solely a consequence of the practices of public sector service establishments . |
| 26 | It goes without saying that this designation is solely a function of the propensity of such locales to attract the very ugliest examples of Homo erectus . |
| 27 | The fact that some providers , including NHS trusts , have run out of money is not solely a problem of inefficiency or poor resource management ( although it may be in some cases ) ; it is also a reflection of the diversity and complexity of the demand for health care , which makes it so unpredictable . |
| 28 | For this reason you are not asked questions which would require only knowledge , as this would be solely a test of memory . |
| 29 | The universe is a spiritual construction , not solely a physical construction . |
| 30 | Assessing the performance of this kind of institution can not be solely a matter of adding up figures on a balance sheet , whether they are the finance officer 's financial data or the registrar 's data on student performance . |