Example sentences of "only by [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 2 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 3 | His patronage was extended not only by the forfeited estates of Lancaster , Badlesmere and the Contrariants but also by the confiscated temporalities of bishops such as Langton ( at the beginning of the reign ) and Stratford , Orleton and Burghersh ( at the end ) . |
| 4 | The towering cliffs , rising to a vertical 350 feet below the lighthouse and to 800 feet in places to the east , are the highest in mainland Britain and are virgin , just as they were sculptured , and explored only by the countless seabirds to which they are home . |
| 5 | The debate has been marred only by the snide remarks of the hon. Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) about my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham ( Mr. Grant ) . |
| 6 | Apart from fire opals , which can stand being faceted , opals can be prepared for jewellery only by the age-old techniques of grinding and smoothing , owing to their tendency to crack . |
| 7 | An ever increasing flow of economic data has been matched only by the multifarious ways in which it can be interpreted and applied in relation to economic policy . |
| 8 | There was a silence broken only by the faint snuffles of the dogs at her feet . |
| 9 | At a few selected points , the particles crash together head-on , generating energy of an intensity matched only by the first moments of the explosion physicists believe created the universe . |
| 10 | For example , the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was constituted not only by the new theories of Descartes , Galileo and Newton but also by new ways of experiencing the world , interacting with it and thinking about it . |
| 11 | Any compilation is going to be a shallow thing redeemed only by the actual songs on it . |
| 12 | Thus it was not surprising that the initiative to take up again the idea of a common market , first raised back in 1952 by the Netherlands at a ministerial meeting of the ECSC as a way of combatting the limited effectiveness of both the OEEC and the sectoral approach , as well as Monnet 's arguments for cooperation in nuclear energy , were grasped only by the six countries of little Europe . |
| 13 | Britain 's traditional supporters fell into line , and Pleven 's blueprint was taken up only by the six states of the ECSC . |
| 14 | The Socialists ' leftward lurch was stimulated not only by the accumulated frustrations of office but also by a fear of ‘ fascism ’ , chiefly in the shape of the CEDA . |
| 15 | Posture is constrained not only by the physical dimensions of the work-space but also by the need to be in a position to see certain events and to feel others through control operations or machine movement . |
| 16 | Soaked in noxious-smelling slimy water , and watched only by the sightless eyes of rotting fish , Benny left the cavern . |
| 17 | These seething emporia of boards and beach-gear were outnumbered only by the healing parlours of various persuasions — ‘ Back and Shoulders ’ , ‘ Healing Hands ’ , ‘ Acupuncture ’ , ‘ MD ’ — where you could put in for repairs . |
| 18 | I was thrilled by it , delighted not only by the unsurpassed views in all directions , but by the physical challenge that a walk with so much climbing and descending presents . |
| 19 | Mackintosh 's suggestion was that the value of α ( i.e. the associability of the CS ) might be determined not only by the intrinsic qualities of the stimulus ( such as its intensity ) but also by the animal 's past experience with the stimulus . |
| 20 | We were there in early December , and the work carried on after dark very often , lit only by the exterior lights of the melin , which were scarcely adequate illumination . |