Example sentences of "only [prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was completely contrary to Lord Darlington 's natural tendencies to take such public stances as he came to do and I can say with conviction that his lordship was persuaded to overcome his more retiring side only through a deep sense of moral duty . |
| 2 | In the nineteenth century , divorce was more or less impossible except for the very wealthy , initially only through a private Act of parliament . |
| 3 | It is only through a living faith in God that we can make a new start in our emotional life with each other . |
| 4 | The final decision as to what to count is actually the solution to the problem in hand ; this decision is taken only through a long series of complicated exploratory maneuvers ’ ( Labov 1972a : 82 ) . |
| 5 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 6 | On the contrary , it is only through a phenomenological clarification of the structure of experiences that the logical properties of such sentences can be made fully transparent . |
| 7 | The relevant factors to consider in investment appraisal are likely to be different for each product and can be determined only through a thorough understanding of the company 's and industry 's actual and specific situation . |
| 8 | You find a parallel world that knows great beauty but can speak only through a tiny box of plastic and tin . |
| 9 | It will be shown , as was already briefly hinted earlier on , that the concept of objective order is inseparable from the idea of a plurality of witnessing selves — a " self " to be understood here in the sense of an experienced unity of biographical time , not as some kind of substantival entity — and the idea of error ; and that the latter ideas in turn can be clarified only through a careful study of the nature of language . |
| 10 | SCOTTISH Universities earned a draw against Welsh Universities at Peffermill , Edinburgh , yesterday , but only through a last-minute penalty by their full-back , Nick Mardon . |
| 11 | It can do so only through a constant turnover of individuals , whose sole purpose in being born is to reproduce and then die . |
| 12 | The University acts as a magnet not only for a wide range of able students from across the UK , but world-wide . |
| 13 | One limitation of this as a punishment is that it may not be very severe — it may imply a moderate loss of profit relative to the collusive agreement — and so may support collusion only for a small set of discount rates . |
| 14 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 15 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |
| 16 | If a group wittingly shares an attitude over a relevant issue but does so only for a limited period of time before falling into disarray , it would be difficult to refer to the group as an elite in any meaningful sense since the outcomes would be insignificant . |
| 17 | The battle of the Catalaunian Plains was proof that the imperial policy could work , if only for a limited period of time . |
| 18 | However he remained with the Wellington unit only for a short time before being posted to Control Office duties at Luqa . |
| 19 | Whether or not these jobs were available only for a short period of time , they were regarded by their holders as temporary . |
| 20 | But they do , they get paid a lot of money but only for a short period of time . |
| 21 | It seems that Gainsborough produced such works as favours for important clients , but only for a short period in his career , later preferring oil on paper for smaller portraits of this sort . |
| 22 | Only for a short period in the mid-1980s , when commodity prices and demand for semi-conductors slumped , did Malaysia risk hitting its borrowing ceiling . |
| 23 | The City of London Police ( who are responsible only for a square mile at the centre of London ) are controlled by a committee of elected councillors . |
| 24 | They are useful only for a single set of data and can not be used to compare two sets unless two pies each representing different totals are compared . |
| 25 | Our PSS patients rported reflux symptoms , however , only during a small fraction of the acid exposure time , as previously seen in patients with chest pain or gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 26 | Perhaps recognising the risk , Malaysia has used tariffs only as a temporary form of protection for the first-comer investor in certain sectors , like television sets . |
| 27 | At times he was so dogmatic that I wanted to laugh , to behave in the traditionally xenophobic , continentals-despising way of my race ; at times , rather against my will , he impressed me — not only as a rich man with some enviable works of art in his house . |
| 28 | And she had seen his picture in trade papers and yachting magazines , usually alongside an article extolling his brilliance , not only as a prizewinning designer in the highly competitive world of trans-ocean racing , but also as a respected if demanding skipper . |
| 29 | In 1921 , The Waste Land clearly on his mind , Eliot complained that the anti-Georgian poets were ‘ mostly such as could imagine the Last Judgment only as a lavish display of Bengal lights , Roman candles , catherine-wheels , and inflammable fire-balloons . |
| 30 | With his fair hair , the stubble on his chin showed only as a slight blurring of the normally sharp jawline , but the rest of his face was a bruise of tiredness and strain . |