Example sentences of "it is only [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only through a living faith in God that we can make a new start in our emotional life with each other . |
| 2 | It is only through a process of dynamic interaction that consciousness is achieved as a sense of self and other . |
| 3 | On the contrary , it is only through a phenomenological clarification of the structure of experiences that the logical properties of such sentences can be made fully transparent . |
| 4 | It is only through a continuous , open exchange of views and experience that libraries will make the optimum use of the varied powerful electronic media opportunities that will characterise information options of the 1990s . |
| 5 | It is only through a combined approach that school will be enabled to deliver all their programmes of study and make enough time to do more . |
| 6 | Although some fertility clinics have offered counselling in recent years , it is only as a result of the new legislation that all clinics have to employ counsellors in order to be licensed . |
| 7 | It is only as a result of sensitive and skilful policing in towns and cities that the problem will be kept under control . |
| 8 | It means that when pesticides are used , and it is only as a last resort , then the most environmentally friendly are chosen . |
| 9 | Furthermore , you are entitled to assume that any flat roof will need replacing before long , even if it is only on a garage , porch or dormer window . |
| 10 | Fortunately it is only to a few that I need refer . |
| 11 | I would rather see people that are going to start work , even if it is only for a year , at the same time where they are working that year that somebody take an interest in what 's going to happen to them at the end of that year . |
| 12 | ‘ It is only with a ceasefire that it will be possible to save the traumatised population of Angola , and the United Nations are ready to help once the hostilities cease , ’ said Joao Lins de Albuquerque , spokesman for the UN representative , Margaret Anstee . |
| 13 | The gentle ascending traverse belies the true nature of the clough , and it is only beyond a stile on the western bank of the steam bed that the deeply-cut nature of the ravine is revealed . |
| 14 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 15 | It is only after a careful analysis of the situation and after a general assessment |
| 16 | He pointed out that , when new products come on the market , they are often treated as great blessings , and it is only after a great deal of experience and use that we learn of their dangers and downsides . |
| 17 | In fact , a particular variable may have more than one function , but it is only by a close analysis that treats speaker variables as independent that we will be able to determine whether this is so . |
| 18 | But it is only from an aesthetic point of view that they merit , in consequence , much less attention ; in the novelist 's eyes they become , on the contrary , more revealing . |
| 19 | Furthermore , since ethics is an empirical and historical discipline and since it is only in a democracy that all citizens participate equally , Dewey argued that the realization of each individual 's ethical potential can only occur within a democracy . |
| 20 | Whilst it would be an exaggeration to say that the part played by remains true that it is only in an exceptional case that a Government Bill fails to pass into law in substantially the form in which it entered Parliament . |
| 21 | He argues , for instance , that the evolutionary emergence of ‘ our self transcendence by means of selection and rational criticism ’ depends upon developments that have taken place in academic language : ‘ It is only within a language thus enriched that critical argument and knowledge in the objective sense become possible . ’ |