Example sentences of "only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not , the constructivist argues , by the enrichment of perceptual input ( in any case the evidence tells us that this is already rich ) : only through action itself . |
| 2 | Raskolnikov is one of the others , though it 's only through the long crime-and-punishment process that he comes to understand this : he had ‘ wanted something more ’ — more than our mere-existence rain . |
| 3 | But no one has ever thought that Yeats 's temperament was Virgilian , and characteristically , in this momentous book of verse and prose mixed , he glimpsed Virgil momentarily only through the spectacles of — of all unlikely people — Paul Verlaine . |
| 4 | They live only through The Sound Of Music and Funny Girl . |
| 5 | She stressed , however , that that could be achieved only through interest rates . |
| 6 | Indeed , this institution is self-perpetuating positively , and not only negatively — not only through inertia , but through activity . |
| 7 | The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered . |
| 8 | The break with this structure of belonging can be announced only through a certain organisation , a certain strategic arrangement which , within the field of metaphysical opposition , uses the strengths of the field to turn its own stratagems against it , producing a force of dislocation that spreads itself throughout the entire system , fissuring it in every direction and thoroughly delimiting it . |
| 9 | Bryceson had been a wartime pilot ; shot down in the Middle East , he taught himself to walk again only through exceptional determination . |
| 10 | Access to the bars and restaurant is currently achieved only through the hotel reception . |
| 11 | You find a parallel world that knows great beauty but can speak only through a tiny box of plastic and tin . |
| 12 | Okoye has endeared himself to team-mates and fans not only through his play on the field but through his incredibly modest behaviour off it . |
| 13 | ‘ The use of bed and breakfast is still hovering close to record levels , ’ says Pawson , ‘ It is only through the boom in short-term leasing that boroughs have been able to avoid further increases in hotel placements . ’ |
| 14 | These she would learn of only through other people . |
| 15 | The very large would survive only through ever more efficiency with little priority given to proper care of the countryside or the environment . |
| 16 | He saw , therefore , that the masses could be bound to him only through constant psychological mobilization , demanding ever recurring successes . |
| 17 | The fragmentation of the Nazi ‘ élite ’ groupings had shown itself plainly in 1924 , and the inner-Party factionalism and opposition in the early 1930s had been countered only through the strength of Hitler 's personal position . |
| 18 | Similarly , if parents lose a daughter , do they maintain contact with their erstwhile son-in-law if he marries again , or was their contact really only through their daughter ? |
| 19 | We see him only through the eyes of the bar-owner , who whiles away the steamy summer afternoons fantasising about this supposed menage a trois . |
| 20 | Under the existing law , these United Kingdom citizens can vote in British and EC parliamentary elections only through a complicated registration procedure , which allows voting only by proxy ( difficult to arrange and flouting the whole principle of a secret ballot ) . |
| 21 | A further unsuccessful appeal was made to WEA branches in the District in an attempt to secure Pateman 's salary for future years and the existing arrears for Pateman were cleared only through the negotiation of a bank overdraft . |
| 22 | The District committee relented ; withdrew their objections and Jacques made it clear to Green it was only through his personal intervention and tenacity as the General Secretary that ‘ the WEA had been saved from disaster , and that this agreement represented , in fact , the charter which gives us continued and autonomous existence ’ . |
| 23 | A child becomes thereby ‘ a child in trust ’ : parental responsibilities can not be easily extinguished or ‘ assumed ’ ( local authority powers in this respect are abolished ) : only through their legal transfer to others , by means of adoption , can they be snuffed out . |
| 24 | Only through the rich utilization of this concept can we fully honor the human-worth value ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 25 | The question of introducing nitrate protection zones got serious consideration only through the Nitrate Coordination Group in 1987 . |
| 26 | Such a process is essential to help a team to mature because it is only through reflection that a team can emerge from the forming and storming stages . |
| 27 | On the left there is the Jacobin tradition , which draws on the Rousseauist doctrine of the general will , expressed thus by Robespierre : ‘ Wherever the people does not exercise its authority and does not manifest its power itself , but only through representatives and if the representative body is not pure and identified with the people , then liberty is extinguished . ’ |
| 28 | Only through being exercised in a disciplined manner can freedom be preserved . |
| 29 | If you do not choose the insurance policy that we have arranged with the Norwich Union , please ensure that you are fully protected against possible delays , as it is only through the policy that you have bought that compensation can be paid to you . |
| 30 | In Medieval times all the city 's most important public buildings were here , standing in a closed square linked with the rest of the city and reached only through one of six gates or vaults , each of which corresponded to a gate in the old city wall . |