Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] alone [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their Lordships refused to look at the internal workings of Parliament stating that if errors had occurred in the procedure for passing legislation then it was for Parliament alone to correct them . |
| 2 | It is said that Parliamentary materials are not readily available to , and understandable by , the citizen and his lawyers who should be entitled to rely on the words of Parliament alone to discover his position . |
| 3 | This suggests that considerable diversification of the vertebrate skeleton had already taken place by Lower Ordovician times and , furthermore , that it is not possible on the basis of antiquity alone to predict whether a micromeric or macromeric skeleton is the more primitive vertebrate condition . |
| 4 | In other words you must use your powers of thought alone to let go of any tension that you may feel . |
| 5 | ( also ‘ Masai ’ ) Murrells complained that Browne depended on force of personality alone to administer the Masai rather than , as was proper , ‘ custom , procedure and authority … supported by ‘ personality ’ . |
| 6 | In the tradition of Advaita or non-Dualism he refers to the soul , ( Ātman ) , and God , ( Brahman ) , as knowers rather than objects of knowledge and claims that it is not possible for mortal beings by the use of reason alone to know the knower of knowing . |
| 7 | If the skull is noticeably thin and light , it may well be an immature specimen , though it is difficult from thickness alone to give an accurate age . |
| 8 | For Locke , it was possible from reason alone to know that there is a God , and the role of revelation tended to be seen as a way to produce belief among those whose reason was undeveloped . |
| 9 | Fortunately there is no need to rely on occupation alone to assess social and economic status . |
| 10 | Words such as Menuetto and Allegretto can mean a variety of things ; it is often up to context alone to let us know what a specific set of words is telling us . |