Example sentences of "only be [vb pp] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin 's mother was lying paralysed in Shoreditch Workhouse even as the portrait was being executed , and he himself had only been saved from abject poverty after his father 's premature death by the generous good offices of his uncle , Samuel Hasted . |
| 2 | Japan claims that essential data on the Minke population can only be obtained from dead whales . |
| 3 | Surplus value or profits can only be expropriated from living labour . |
| 4 | Silly literary prig , I thought , and how typical of a man who thinks that good writing can only be learnt from good reading to find spiritual anguish unreal . |
| 5 | Consistency in management can only be fashioned from high principles |
| 6 | With the exceptions of Ben Nevis and Carn Mor Dearg , they are seldom visited , can only be approached from distant bases in the north , are difficult of access , progress being impeded by new conifer plantations , have no guiding paths to their summits and are unkind underfoot . |
| 7 | It is because the attender is unobservable and can only be inferred from retrospective description that mental experiencing includes a strong tendency to dichotomize the ‘ I ’ ( attender ) from the ‘ me ’ ( self-description ) ; a dichotomy that parallels that between ‘ I ’ and my body . |
| 8 | Whether the alternative candidates confuse the situation more often than they aid it can only be found from adequate testing of the system . |