Example sentences of "only by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silence of the wild places should be disturbed only by the sounds of nature . |
| 2 | One day , if only by the laws of probability , the rumours will be proved right . |
| 3 | The rhythms of our daily speech and writing are haunted not only by the rhythms of nursery rhymes , but also by the rhythms of Shakespeare , Blake , Edward Lear , Lewis Carroll , the Authorised Version of the Bible . |
| 4 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
| 5 | Miles flew by in the barren landscape , punctuated only by the carcasses of kangaroos on the line . |
| 6 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
| 7 | The alternative and , in the last resort , not so very different view is that which sees the Hundred Years War as a wider civil war in which a policy of royal centralisation , based on Paris , was opposed not only by the dukes of Aquitaine and Normandy ( in both cases king of England ) , but by those of Brittany , and ( late in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ) , Burgundy . |
| 8 | To the romantic Jesus expresses his hunger and desire to live only by the words of God . |
| 9 | Coleridge thought The Borderers ‘ absolutely wonderful ’ , and surrounded only by the distractions of friendship and a lovely , unfamiliar countryside , found time at Racedown to make progress with his own play , Wordsworth providing the necessary encouragement as well as some ‘ strict & almost severe ’ criticism . |