Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] only [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course those who regarded the study of mind only as a branch of metaphysics smiled at the ineptitude of the mere man of science . |
| 2 | It is absolutely essential that each parcel should be described with such particularity and precision that there is no room for doubt about the boundaries of each , and for such purposes if a plan is intended to control the description of part only of a building , an Ordnance map on a scale of 1:2500 is worse than useless ( Scarfe v Adams [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 843 ) . |
| 3 | Prefaced by an ‘ urgent remonstrance ’ to the gentlemen of England , warning them that the young Queen Victoria 's announcement of her intention to marry Prince Albert may lead to great numbers of her female subjects taking a similar nuptial initiative owing to Leap Year of 1840 ( traditionally a woman could make a proposal of marriage only in a leap year ) . |
| 4 | The valuation of high cultural works of art , which sees possibilities of critique only in an aesthetic realm that is separate from the social , is constitutive of the modernist aesthetic of critical theory 's ‘ mainstream ’ . |
| 5 | Poetry can be delineated as a specific area of analysis only by a comparison with what is not poetry . |
| 6 | Evidently there is something odd about the expression imperator noster divus Marcus , for noster is generally used of the current emperor , and divus of course only of a deceased one . |
| 7 | Paid in part by the Crown and in part by ecclesiastical benefices , they were Crown servants first and ministers of God only in a fairly casual sense . |
| 8 | But I took on the idea of transcendence only at a personal level . |