Example sentences of "only [be] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major tool of management was always employment , for it was only through interest that anything worthwhile could be obtained , for even appointments in mercantile houses at home or abroad could often only be obtained through interest , while all appointments in government service were patronage appointments , in fact if not always in theory . |
| 2 | It is a sadly neglected work , and again the only serious alternative to Järvi is Stravinsky 's Chicago recording which like the Jeu can only be obtained as part of a mammoth 22-CD Sony set of virtually all Stravinsky 's major works ( totally indispensable though that is ) . |
| 3 | Treatment for Thrush can only be obtained on prescription from your doctor or clinic . |
| 4 | Up to the middle of the nineteenth century , water could only be obtained from wells — which frequently also became places of meetings and entertainment , e.g. Sadlers Wells , or by collecting and storing rain water , or it could be purchased from water vendors , at three pailsful for a penny . |
| 5 | Dyes for hair colouring could only be obtained from plants and one of the oldest of these is the red dye henna , obtained from the powdered dried leaves of the plant Lawsonia inermis . |
| 6 | If there are no goods in the shops ; or if food can only be obtained by rationing ; or if the state siphons off the lion 's share of increased earnings as taxation ; or if an economy seems incapable of growing , then people begin to question the fundamentals on which such a system is built . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This information could only be obtained by conversion of the CED typesetting tape to a usable representation of the information . |
| 9 | Access to special procedure material can only be obtained by virtue of a warrant issued by a circuit judge who can issue such a warrant either where , prior to the Act , there would have been access to such material and the first set of access conditions apply or where the judge has reasonable grounds to believe ( i ) a serious arrestable offence has been committed . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , experience is the best guide to fabric interpretation , and this can only be obtained by study of many different sediment types . |
| 11 | Conclusive evidence for the occurrence of arrested larval development can only be obtained by examination of the worm population in the host . |
| 12 | Please note that tickets for Event 16 can only be obtained in advance from York Music Centre . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There had been some plants under construction for wartime-approved purposes , but in 1945 itself only 170MW of new plant had been completed , and in 1946 this could only be increased to 288MW and in 1947 to 340MW . |
| 15 | You will find you have access to swims you once only dreamed about and it becomes possible for you to float fish in swims which can only be fished with leger tackle from the bank . |
| 16 | At this point optimism makes way for a new kind of awareness , tragic awareness , which can only be borne through art in the shape of myth . |
| 17 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 18 | Opinion on an individual 's functioning can only be given to others with that person 's consent . |
| 19 | Should only be given to babies that can be observed easily in a room in which staff are always present . |
| 20 | He explained that by 1996 all trades and industry would be covered by NVQ 's and government funding for training would only be given for NVQ 's . |
| 21 | But suppose now we require that adequate grammatical descriptions include specifications of the meaning of every word in a language , and such a requirement has normally been assumed , then we find words whose meaning-specifications can only be given by reference to contexts of usage . |
| 22 | All response to tracheal suctioning ceases with this dose , so it should only be given after consultation with senior medical staff . |
| 23 | Its real efficacy can only be tested over time and it remains to be seen if clozapine is a major advance , or whether the wide spectrum of response originally found with chlorpromazine , from full recovery to no response , is merely replicated , with a general shift a bit further in the desired direction . |
| 24 | Again , the implication is clear — we have to think of buried sites in their landscapes , which will only be detected via redevelopment projects and cropmarks on air photographs . |
| 25 | Remember that cases which have apparently recovered , can remain as carriers for a considerable time and can only be detected by laboratory isolation from nasal swabs . |
| 26 | We hope each hydra might escape detection during the period while it grows to maturity — or only be detected by riff-raff , whom no-one in power will heed . |
| 27 | Influence is the process by which one person in an organisation , A , directs or modifies the behaviour or attitudes of another person , B. Influence can only be exerted by A on B if A has some kind of power from which the influence emanates . |
| 28 | There is an exemption limit of £5,800 a year : so if during the year your total profits amount to £12,000 , tax would only be levied on £6,200 . |
| 29 | ‘ Money will only be invested in ideas where we can see a gain , ’ said Ken . |
| 30 | P-waves can be transmitted through any material ( sound waves are of this type ) , but S-waves can only be transmitted through solids . |