Example sentences of "only [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be achieved only through Parliament . |
| 2 | If government wanted such powers , it could obtain them only through Parliament ( Parliament itself has never sought to exercise executive powers ) and the granting of them could take place only after deliberation and approval by the triumvirate of monarch , Lords , and Commons . |
| 3 | Only through awareness of , and agreement on , the value of each aspect of communication can we hope that educational methodology will progress . |
| 4 | In the classical version , we are manipulable only through threats or appeals ; in the positivist it is through the alteration of mechanistic causal variables . |
| 5 | Human Behaviour can be Controlled Only Through Child Training |
| 6 | In evaluating the Copernican system , for example , mathematical criteria should take precedence over interpretations of Scripture , which may have become normative but only through ignorance . |
| 7 | Such a process is essential to help a team to mature because it is only through reflection that a team can emerge from the forming and storming stages . |
| 8 | The atmosphere was recreated not only through dance and costume but also by authentic contemporary music . |
| 9 | Until that first excursion most travellers for pleasure were the wealthy and the aristocracy who travelled independently ; less privileged people travelled only through necessity . |
| 10 | Indeed , this institution is self-perpetuating positively , and not only negatively — not only through inertia , but through activity . |
| 11 | Self making was seen as a product of will and energy but it was achieved only through struggle . |
| 12 | What is missed is that alongside an increase in centralized control has been persistent dissent ; domination — social , economic and ideological — has been maintained only through struggle . |
| 13 | First , as a general point , an industry may change from being a natural monopoly not only through changes in underlying technology but also through changes in demand . |
| 14 | The Soviet response , this time round , was to accept the election of a Solidarity prime minister with relatively good grace ( Jaruzelski , after all , had become president ) ; more generally , Soviet theorists began to accept that socialist countries could have legitimate differences of interest and that these could be resolved only through discussion , not by the imposition of a Soviet diktat . |
| 15 | Many elderly people have a wide range of interests , maintain them — if only through reading — right on into old age , and still enjoy the cut and thrust of discussion and debate ; but we have to accept the fact that for some , the main topics of conversation will be their own and other people 's health , past reminiscences , and family matters . |
| 16 | Polybius and Posidonius remained the masters in the field : the former survived in sufficient measure to impose his interpretation on modern historians , whereas Posidonius reached the Renaissance only through mediators , such as Diodorus and Strabo and perhaps Sallust and Plutarch . |
| 17 | The Socialist League still took the view that only through work in the Labour Party was there any possibility of building a united labour movement . |
| 18 | Like many other aspects of twentieth-century thought and culture , both modernism and postmodernism negotiate with the problem that ‘ we can know the real ’ , as Linda Hutcheon puts it , ‘ only through signs ’ , and , based on arbitrary relations between signifier and signified , language and sign may sheer away from the reality they seek to represent ( Hutcheon 1988 : 230 ) . |
| 19 | As Marwick has argued , ‘ It is only through knowledge of its history that a society can have knowledge of itself ’ , and Carr has said that ‘ The more sociological history becomes and the more historical sociology becomes , the better for both . ’ |
| 20 | ANDES argues that only through reforms in the social and economic structure of the country , and with an end to the concentration of power in the hands of the oligarchy , can the inadequacies and inequalities of the Salvadorean education system be overcome . |
| 21 | It is these private goods , available only through union membership , which may provide the incentive to join for potential members . |
| 22 | Furthermore a solicitor 's experience of advocacy is only through magistrates courts and is completely different . |
| 23 | Again , FMI developments have aroused tensions among middle- and lower-management grades , not only through fears about jobs and increased central monitoring , but concern also that financial stringency could impact on staff development and training ‘ with longer term consequences for an efficient and effective Civil Service ’ ( Public Accounts Committee , 1986–7c , para. 39 ) . |
| 24 | Betting on the day is only through credit or deposit accounts , or by debit card . |
| 25 | We were erm not given many opportunities to do that only through things well local clubs like the W R I and which er and in that way all Orcadians just trying to do our best together you know . |
| 26 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 27 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 28 | So Mrs. Pedelty ( who collects 11,0001. in rent and has not subscribed one farthing in relief ) has regained several hundred valuable acres , while the British Treasury has acquired two hundred and fifty more mouths that can be fed only through relief . |
| 29 | The question is whether David Mellor knows that mere fun gets boring very quickly ; that excellence , whether in the media , sports or arts can be achieved only through difficulty , through painstaking work , through seriousness ; that people can not be conned for long . |
| 30 | Only through composition can pupils acquire effective mastery of the enlarged vocabulary with which they become acquainted through literature , but which remains inert in their minds without the exercise of applying it to the expression of their own thought . |