Example sentences of "only be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , no respectable economist derives a trend by comparing a trough year ( 1981 ) with a peak ( 1988 ) : sensible figures can only be obtained by contrasting peak-with-peak or trough-with-trough . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , experience is the best guide to fabric interpretation , and this can only be obtained by study of many different sediment types . |
| 7 | This information could only be obtained by conversion of the CED typesetting tape to a usable representation of the information . |
| 8 | Personal injury practitioners can only make any sort of profit at all if they achieve a realistic cash flow and this can only be obtained by ensuring that payment is made as soon as the case is settled . |
| 9 | Conclusive evidence for the occurrence of arrested larval development can only be obtained by examination of the worm population in the host . |
| 10 | Any proposal to pay by instalment should only be accepted by the haulier if accompanied by some immediate payment ; otherwise it has no value . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) Such restrictions as are accepted may only be accepted by the vendors , their associated companies or by individuals . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A circular aperture has an area proportional to the square of its diameter , so doubling the aperture diameter increases the image illumination by a factor of four ; to double the illumination , the diameter need only be increased by a factor of 2 . |
| 14 | CANCELLATION : When you book your accommodation , you will be entering into a legally binding contract which can only be broken by mutual consent . |
| 15 | In its better forms , such as the Avro 504 and the various Moths , the wooden biplane was almost everlasting and the structure could really only be broken by flying it into the ground . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | This bond can only be broken by a crime , and that kind of crime brings it 's punishment . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Its success can only be ensured by a maximum effort from all those willing and able to work to that end . |
| 20 | While welcoming in principle the SIB 's recent proposals for simplification of the rules , Mr Bell said : ‘ Any changes , no matter how desirable , must however be implemented sensibly in order not to increase unnecessarily the already considerable costs of the regime , which in our case can only be borne by the policy holders . ’ |
| 21 | Such discrepancies can only be bridged by national funding . ’ |
| 22 | Without probate of the will or letters of administration , neither executor nor administrator can take any steps in any other court of law , for the executor 's proof of his title , and the administrator 's title itself , can only be given by the Ecclesiastical Court . |
| 23 | The legislation turned the transition into a public activity , performed to certain rules , clothed in the rhetoric of advice , guidance , and protection which , it was claimed , could only be given by ‘ experts ’ and selected voluntary ‘ helpers ’ . |
| 24 | Speake has commented that : ‘ Patronage to support and pay a goldsmith or craftsman who utilised such expensive materials as gold , silver and garnet , could only be given by the ‘ top people ’ in Anglo-Saxon society' ( 1980 , p. 39 ) . |
| 25 | The statement that the actions we ought to do are those which promote the general happiness would be useless if it meant nothing more than that they do promote it , and that something more can only be given by an intuition . |
| 26 | As for confession , which had been allowed to laymen , this was to be undertaken only when the penitent was in mortal danger : the emphasis now was not on contrition but on absolution which could only be given by a priest . |
| 27 | But a new entity , MODULE can be described which may only be given by one LECTURER and is part of only one COURSE . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |