Example sentences of "only [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only through such an accidental , miraculous chance could anyone expect to shake off the yoke of grimly limited prospects . |
| 2 | Only through such discussions can we begin to probe the ways in which a satisfying and total response gradually emerges . |
| 3 | Only through such a position of critical self-evaluation can the restricted epistemological validity of one 's position , and its possible ideological strains , be recognised for what it is . |
| 4 | Only through such approaches to training needs can the huge requirement for continuing education and training can be met . |
| 5 | The size of the new electorate meant that the voters could be reached only through some well-developed organization , and the result was to be the growth of organized and mass-membership political parties . |
| 6 | In publicising one 's own methods it becomes only a short step to maintaining that this personal success is general success and can be achieved only through this personal approach . |
| 7 | The most impressive contemporary tribute to the idea of enlightened despotism , therefore , is the number of idealists who accepted that only through this form of government had their ideals any chance of realization . |
| 8 | Only for such beings is ignorance not bliss . |
| 9 | If it is accepted , as I believe it should be accepted , that certiorari goes not only for such an excess or abuse of power but also for a breach of the rules of natural justice there is even less reason in principle for excluding other established grounds . |
| 10 | They told me not to bother doing the premises up since it was only for such a short time . |
| 11 | We should take it as settled that drivers are liable only for such damage as has been explicitly stipulated in clear statutes , so that drivers and potential victims can insure and otherwise plan their affairs accordingly . |
| 12 | The site manager acts as the focal point of the operation , and gives the customer a single point of contact not only for all aspects of the cleaning programme , but also for other Rentokil services . |
| 13 | The Committee is very grateful to its Secretary , , not only for all the work she has done for the committee but also for her work for ethnic minority students seeking pupillage . |
| 14 | It 's cash only for all trips costing less than twenty-five pounds , of course . |
| 15 | But only for that one identity |
| 16 | In each text , the first two sentences set up a context that makes a different one of these two structures more plausible by allowing fully referential success only for that one structure . |
| 17 | I prefer to use the voice to stun , not only for that reason , but also because it is almost always immediately available . |
| 18 | ‘ If a similar crime clock for industrial deaths were constructed … and recalling that this clock ticks only for that half of the population that is in the labour force — this clock would show an industrial death about every four and a half minutes ! |
| 19 | Those students resident in private accommodation can claim Housing Benefit during the period of study , but only for that element of rent that exceeds the grant contribution . |
| 20 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 21 | It would , furthermore , be difficult to justify the scale of directors ' remuneration if the recipients did not possess comparatively scarce abilities , and it would , if only for that reason , be surprising if directors were themselves to deny the possession of special skills . |
| 22 | If you look back to the cel with the plane on it , you can see its background is cyan , which has also been designated transparent , but only for that actor . |
| 23 | He might desire her — he did desire her — but he would not marry her only for that ! |
| 24 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 25 | Even if only for that reason , to regard it as simply an expression of industrial grievances is ludicrously inadequate . |
| 26 | The university has made clear that any funds raised from a sale will be used only for that purpose and not to clear its accumulated deficit , as originally intended . |
| 27 | Here is Lawrence , bowls this one on the leg stump , push there , the short play , fielded by Morris and that 's a wicket er that was eighteen , DaSilva a hundred and sixteen minutes and he only had one four and if we remember his first innings when he scored forty-two , with seven fours and he was in only for that , thirty-something minutes , was it ? |
| 28 | In a triumph of renunciation of heterosexual closure in marriage , the poem ends with a celebration of the tranquillity and harmony to be found when women choose to live only for each other , in a feminine pastoral paradise , a sapphic idyll … |
| 29 | This is the profound hope and certainty , that there are ways for every type of intellect and it is necessary only for each one to find the method that suits him . |
| 30 | Resource allocation in the near future requires accurate information not only for each school but within a school for each year . |