Example sentences of "[vb mod] only gain [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the greatest nobles could only gain admittance by sending in presents of large sums of money : ‘ whosoever gets enamoured of her gets sucked into the whirlpool of her demands , ’ writes Dargah Quli Khan , ‘ and brings ruin upon himself and his house . |
| 2 | In a similar position would be a street trader , who regularly deals with a certain wholesaler and who could only gain credit from him by guaranteeing to purchase his goods . |
| 3 | By contrast , there are 2 basic operations at the lowest level ; so if instead all the basic operations were applied directly , at a single level , the first of them would only gain credit during the 2 th successful search . |
| 4 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 5 | In an intensely competitive world it is the " master-buyer " who has the power ; the " servant-seller " is weak and can only gain strength by providing a service superior to that of his competitors . |
| 6 | It is a matter of concern to many librarians and researchers that some of these universities , such as Cambridge , hold numbers of high quality theses , containing unpublished work , to which researchers can only gain access by personally visiting the individual university libraries . |