Example sentences of "only [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The speaker is thus identified , but in an oblique way , which the reader can comprehend only through familiarity with the idiomatic use of ‘ gather ’ as meaning ‘ to deduce or conclude from something heard or read ’ . |
| 3 | However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it . |
| 4 | Cheminage might be levied only ‘ in the places where it is accustomed and ought to be taken by ancient usage ’ , and only for wood from the king 's demesne woods . |
| 5 | Her eyes filled with tears again , not only for pity at the death of dogs . |
| 6 | ‘ I could mend that for you , ’ he had said , hating anything broken or untidy only for want of a firm nail . |
| 7 | I write about these themes myself but often only for want of a better language . |
| 8 | ‘ He does , but only for part of the week ; the rest of the time he works at Conway House . ’ |
| 9 | The wall is there only for privacy from the road . |
| 10 | only for matter of a week , ten days by which time it 'll be fixed . |
| 11 | , c ( 7500 is only for use in the case of hi-jacking ) . |
| 12 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 13 | The band is used not only for worship in the citadel , but also for evangelism in public places . |
| 14 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 15 | A former tax inspector , he has had experience of power only as head of the regional government in Old Castile and Leon . |
| 16 | Another point is that the information management unit was intended not only as part of a construction industry course for students at universities and polytechnics , but was also aimed as a course to assist construction industry personnel already in industry . |
| 17 | It must never be used as a quick fix , but only as part of a dedicated care programme . |
| 18 | The French were particularly opposed to the re-creation of a German Army and , in October , Premier René Pleven announced that France would rearm German troops only as part of a ‘ European Army ’ which , by creating federal defence institutions , would prevent Germany regaining any military independence . |
| 19 | Eat sweet things only as part of a meal , then have something sweet once a day , then only on alternate days . |
| 20 | The Alps were compelling , but only as part of the scenery , not as the winter activity playground they were to become . |
| 21 | ( They also do this when they bring their owners dead birds from the garden , an action normally done only as part of the food-training routine when mother cats show their kittens the kind of prey they must later attack . ) |
| 22 | But he saw her only as part of the furniture , and so her guilt was lessened . |
| 23 | Emmie had always known it , really , but only as part of the long , beautiful dream she had about all her family . |
| 24 | In 1922 the Kerry Railway was absorbed by the GWR and in 1931 it was closed to passengers but continued to run for freight only as part of the BR ( Western Region ) from 1 January 1948 . |
| 25 | This depends on such considerations as whether the wider context includes an indication of negation or counterfactuality , and also on the lexical character of the verb with which the adjective is in immediate construction , since the property of the adjective is not applied to the entity in isolation but only as part of the property complex constituted by the adjective and the verb properties taken together . |
| 26 | But still the likely reality is that Britain will be increasingly demoted by Washington to its proper station — a second-rank nation , perhaps one day a third-rank nation , whose importance is only as part of the European Community . |
| 27 | Indeed the adjective must be so understood ; if we try to imagine using , in the structure of ( 16 ) , an adjectival property which is not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase ( nor helping as a qualifier to identify any entity of the sentence ) , there will be only two possible outcomes : If it is a property semantically compatible with the verb , the result will be taken as an ungrammatical way of expressing a thought which should have incorporated an adverb : ( 17 ) Alastair likes his beef tea great Alternatively , it will be a property that is not compatible with the verb either ; but , in that case , there will be no way of guessing what that property should be applied to — it will in effect be semantically " loose " , so that the whole will be incomprehensible : ( 18 ) the process left the documents puzzled Thus , the property of the adjective qualifies , in purely syntactic terms , the inner grouping of verb and object ; it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase , but not directly , only as part of an interlocking structure with three elements — as in certain engineering and architectural structures , each of three elements needs the other two in order for the whole to function effectively . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the general point stands that Behaviouralists , for all their dramatic talk of a ‘ Behavioural Revolution ’ , were really arguing only about method within a basic theoretical approach shared with Realism . |
| 29 | The interests of all persons who take under a will can take effect only after payment of the debts of the deceased . |
| 30 | In addition to showing that the number of defective modern items issued is perhaps greater than might have been expected , the findings of the Survey also suggest that a number of items may be consulted with considerable frequency , for 94 requests remained unsatisfied because the desired item was already in use , and a further 59 items were supplied only after transfer from a previous reader 's reserve shelf . |