Example sentences of "[coord] it be only by " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the German attitude to Europe is something which is determined by a massive historical heritage , and it is only by investigating this that both the motives and dangers can be truly grasped . |
| 2 | Judge Kenneth Richardson told him : ‘ You have been convicted of a shocking murder and it is only by sheer luck that it was not two . ’ |
| 3 | I am Cambridged out , and it is only by getting away from the familiar that anything good will ( I hope ) emerge . |
| 4 | Reports are always subjected to much criticism and it is only by writing in unexceptionable language for a specific readership that clear meanings are preserved . |
| 5 | Conditioned by both the sources and the system , one is inclined to suspect a professional motive , that Molla Ivaz saw the Ayasofya , for whatever reason , as a surer stepping-stone to higher offices ; and it is only by conscious effort that one remembers to entertain the possibility that some personal consideration quite unconnected with his career led to his decision . |
| 6 | The type of research which this kind of geology necessitates is careful , painstaking fieldwork , covering large areas of difficult terrain , and it is only by long-term work involving many individuals that the answers to the problems can be found . |
| 7 | In ( 119 ) the bare infinitive do is the equivalent of " who did " and it is only by means of the indefinite pronoun anyone that the speaker is able to generalize from the particular performance of the event do which was directly experienced . |
| 8 | The significant point however is that the speaker is evoking his view of the possibility of the daring , and it is only by logical implication that we infer his opinion of its realization . |
| 9 | A court order avoids the repayment of the discount on the transfer of a former council house ( see further this chapter ) and it is only by court order ( with the agreement of the parties ) that future claims against the estate of one party to the former marriage can be barred out ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 10 | He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn . |
| 11 | As for her voice , it seemed to be down at her elbow somewhere , and it was only by a kind of automatic reflex that she was singing at all . |
| 12 | It had been an exercise without much in the way of results , but then many of my days were like that , and it was only by knowing the normal that the abnormal , when it happened , could be spotted . |
| 13 | Even so , Police Constable Clifford nearly hit her , and it was only by a combination of his skill and the excellent condition of his car 's brakes that he was able to stop a fraction of a second before knocking her down . |
| 14 | The heterogeneous nature of its object had led to a heterogeneous discipline , and it was only by making literariness the object of its enquiry that literary science could exist as an independent and indeed as a coherent and systematic type of study . |
| 15 | That position received the strongest support from various members of the family , and it was only by strenuous and prolonged efforts that I have been able to persuade them to let me bring you this memorandum , which contains , as I 've said , all the relevant items in the letter . ’ |
| 16 | They caught a glimpse of his robe in the candlelight , but only a glimpse because then he moved into the shadows and it was only by Mordecai 's gestures that they could tell where he was . |
| 17 | It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm . |
| 18 | Terraces , walls , lawns and borders all play their parts but it is only by judicious planting that we can ensure as much joy in January as in June . |
| 19 | It is easy enough to measure the volumes of lava flows , but it is only by constructing isopach maps that the volume of pyroclastic material erupted can be estimated , and this is particularly important in volcanoes at destructive plate margins , where the mass of magma represented by pyroclastic rocks sometimes far outweighs that represented by lavas . |
| 20 | Silly it may be , but it is only by considering the way women define their job as housewives that the housewife 's long working hours can be understood . |
| 21 | In fact , a particular variable may have more than one function , but it is only by a close analysis that treats speaker variables as independent that we will be able to determine whether this is so . |
| 22 | … but it 's only by a whisker |
| 23 | But it 's only by sort of putting it out like this and thinking yes , the media wants to talk about this , talk about that , talk about the other , you know , they are in this case the most , the likely thing to be adding to the problem . |
| 24 | Nicky Henderson 's Mr Gossip justified favouritism and made a winning debut over fences in the second division of the Misletoe Novice Chase but it was only by a head that he got home from Bit Of A Clown , with Bronze Final a head away third . |