Example sentences of "could only be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since jade can not be flaked , like flint and obsidian , it could only be shaped by grinding it with sand on a piece of wood for weeks or months . |
| 2 | Rather , Marx argued , the nature of man could only be revealed by seeing man in society , in history , and in politics . |
| 3 | From his position at the Paris museum , he promulgated a new approach in which animals would be classified not by their external appearance but by internal resemblances that could only be revealed by dissection . |
| 4 | It required no elaborate analysis to draw the lesson : economic grievances could only be redressed by achieving political change . |
| 5 | Henry Dyer , the Scottish educationalist , warned of the ‘ vast forces ’ which needed to be ‘ guided by an intelligent democracy ’ which itself could only be ensured by ‘ an adequate system of education ’ , otherwise , everything ‘ will end in chaos and despotism ’ . |
| 6 | for him to determine as a preliminary issue whether the county court had jurisdiction to deal with the matter , or whether , as the council claim , the question whether they had discharged their statutory duty under section 69 could only be raised by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court . |
| 7 | They could only be understood by those educated as courtiers . |
| 8 | Thus in the Mediterranean basin the evolution of valleys ( Vita-Finzi , 1969 ) could only be understood by reference to human activity and , more biogeographically , the significance of cultural biogeography was exemplified by the work of Professor D.R. Harris , which was initially in the field of historical ecology but proceeded to embrace the domestication of plants and animals ( e.g. Harris , 1968 ) and which later led to greater contacts with archaeology and to his appointment as Professor of Archaeology in the University of London in 1979 . |
| 9 | Fore-edge paintings had been put on books for centuries , but William Edwards was the first binder to paint landscape scenes on fore-edges which were hidden by gilt and could only be viewed by fanning the leaves of the book . |
| 10 | If tutors were not doing their job as required they would be reported to National Council and their accredition would be withdrawn , and Institute students could only be taught by accredited tutors . |
| 11 | Roman remains , including tesserae have also been found in Chedworth village ( c. 140 yds south of the ‘ villa ’ ) , but whether these sites were associated with the temple could only be determined by excavation . |
| 12 | It could only be determined by the justices upon whatever evidence was put before it , and the effect of that must then be put into perspective . |
| 13 | and Otton J. ) affirmed his acquittal by the Crown Court ( which had allowed an appeal against conviction by justices ) on the ground that the defendant , when required to give blood , had raised an objection capable of amounting to a medical reason why blood should not be taken and that this could only be determined by a medical practitioner . |
| 14 | The extent to which the first proposition is true could only be determined by interviewing all of the successful Ph D students , and all of their supervisors , and attempting to reconcile two , possibly conflicting , sets of answers . |
| 15 | Otherwise how could speaker Lentor tell the King that the speaker on that 's on that occasion could only be instructed by parliament . |
| 16 | The outward symptoms arose out of Tudor Grange 's ambitious expansion programme , which could only be fuelled by borrowings . |
| 17 | According to the rules then extant , a national strike could only be called by the NUM if it had the support of at least 55 per cent of the members voting in a secret ballot : the union prided itself on its democracy in this context . |
| 18 | Notoriously , positivists such as Carnap enunciated a principle of meaningfulness which banned transcendental reflection , but which could only be justified by the sort of argument which it debarred . |
| 19 | But the seven fifteenths and tenths and the three and two-thirds subsidies granted from 1566 to 1581 could only be justified by the threat rather than the reality of war . |
| 20 | It considered that if the Community 's system of quotas in its present form allowed member states to introduce certain requirements whose compatibility with Community law could only be justified by the necessity to attain the objectives of that system , then such requirements could only be incorporated into the quota licences or other quota management measures which the United Kingdom must lay down for the management of its quotas under article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , and not be imposed as conditions for the registration of vessels . |
| 21 | Izvestiya warned that the Civic Union 's programme would cause spiralling inflation which could only be broken by " strict , consistent monetary-credit and financial policy , the policy from which the government is retreating under pressure " . |
| 22 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 23 | ‘ for years before her paper pica appeared , the patient recalled eating a special type of mud which contained a distinctive smell and could only be obtained by digging in a certain area of a particular field . ’ |
| 24 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 25 | This information could only be obtained by conversion of the CED typesetting tape to a usable representation of the information . |
| 26 | Incidentally it should be remembered that the first picture ( Fig. 22.3 ) is actually the second stage of the sequence , because this pattern is itself the consequence of an instability that occurs only if the Rayleigh number is high enough ( Sections 22.2 , 22.3 ) ; however the first stage could only be represented by a picture which was ‘ a perfect and absolute blank ’ . |
| 27 | The latter urged far-reaching reforms that could only be implemented by a revolutionary dictatorship , which would need to realign itself internationally in order to secure protection against the United States . |
| 28 | Under the revised law on citizenship , this could only be lost by citizens at their own request . |
| 29 | In the Old Testament the sea was the symbol of chaos and evil , which could only be overcome by God . |
| 30 | It was against self-will and worldly desires that he set his face ; and these could only be overcome by personal conversion . |