Example sentences of "only by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less severe bruising on the arm should be covered only by a crêpe bandage . |
| 2 | His production opens with a darkened stage , lit only by a spotlight on a tiny , fragile rod puppet . |
| 3 | It was a magical room , carved out of the attic and reached only by a wrought-iron spiral staircase which Paul had rescued from some abandoned church . |
| 4 | This being Iceland it was black , jet-black weathered lava , and was kissed only by a light breeze coming off the glacier . |
| 5 | This disposition of rooms made it possible to treat the residual high-level space as a single living/dining/cooking area , with the kitchen located at its northern end , divided from the generous living-dining-room only by a head-height folding screen . |
| 6 | But things have now improved and sales in comparable shops are currently ahead of last year , if only by a neck . |
| 7 | He was then persuaded to stay only by a last-minute promise of personnel changes at the top , but even senior Communist Party advisers had no idea how high-level these changes had been . |
| 8 | Nicky Henderson 's Mr Gossip justified favouritism and made a winning debut over fences in the second division of the Misletoe Novice Chase but it was only by a head that he got home from Bit Of A Clown , with Bronze Final a head away third . |
| 9 | Until recently Saddam Hussein was supported only by a lunatic fringe in the Soviet Union ; the leader of Pamyat , an anti-Semitic group , praised him for standing up to Zionism . |
| 10 | The new Marxist government was saved only by a Cuban expeditionary force of at least 20,000 men , with logistical back-up from the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived . |
| 12 | Trusts arise not only by a direct expression of intention but also by an inference or implication which may or may not correspond to any actual intention . |
| 13 | When those hopes are dashed so soon , not only by a cruel foreign king , but by God 's own people , then the story turns to bleak tragedy , and becomes unbearable . |
| 14 | This altogether much safer-feeling arrangement is marred only by a transitory , tip-toe uncertainly as the car turns into faster corners . |
| 15 | Only by a stupendous act of imagination , only by actually putting myself in his skin in that room at that time can I even begin to attempt any sort of answer which moves by the smallest degree away from the natural responses of disgust and revulsion which all of us instinctively wish to express . |
| 16 | We were in darkness , relieved only by a chink of light under the door . |
| 17 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 18 | To ease the credit policy , the Federal Reserve Board cut interest rates to their lowest level since November 1964 after chairman Alan Greenspan admitted that January 's and February 's surge in growth may have been caused only by a mild winter after all . |
| 19 | ‘ Thanks , ’ Trent said , to delay his death , if only by a few minutes . |
| 20 | Rawls assumes without argument that the social role can be fulfilled only by a perfect doctrine of justice , i.e. , one which establishes a perfect government for his actual society . |
| 21 | A century ago , later life was a privilege reached only by a fortunate minority : average life expectancy was under fifty years . |
| 22 | By contrast , despite earlier speculation that it would be supported by ex-Cabinet ministers , Heseltine 's nomination was ultimately signed only by a former junior minister and a backbencher who had never held ministerial office . |
| 23 | No , Kensington and Kennington might be separated only by a letter of the alphabet but the streets that came between them took you out of one world and into another . |
| 24 | This is a cave very accommodating for beginners in speleology and indeed for ordinary walkers with no such aspirations who , aided only by a torch , can penetrate quite easily for a hundred yards without meeting any difficulty . |
| 25 | It is , however , unseen and unsuspected by travellers along the road and its charms are known only by a relative few who have discovered its existence during their wanderings in the area . |
| 26 | As for her voice , it seemed to be down at her elbow somewhere , and it was only by a kind of automatic reflex that she was singing at all . |
| 27 | He was clearly not content to sink into idle retirement but was soon full of schemes to open up Hannafore , then reachable only by a path that climbed steeply over a down that fell sharply to the Looe river in a precipitous cliff . |
| 28 | The situation does not occur on stillwaters because there is enough water well out from the banks to allow the beats to be separated , if only by a few yards . |
| 29 | Any two differ only by a multiplicative constant , so for data analysis , each is as good as any other . |
| 30 | Albert Dawes signed for Crystal Palace FC from Northampton Town on the Wednesday before Christmas 1933 and , in two periods with the Palace before the war ( interrupted only by a fifteen month spell when he helped Luton Town to the 3rd Division South championship in 1937 ) , he became Palace 's third highest goalscorer of all time in the Football League — only Peter Simpson and George Clarke have improved upon Albert 's total of 91 League goals . |