Example sentences of "only [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain tasks can be performed only through the combined efforts of a number of people working together — e.g. a police or a medical operation . |
| 2 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 3 | Throughout 1811 – 12 attacks on machinery took place not only through the stocking-making counties of Nottinghamshire , Leicestershire and Derbyshire but also in the woollen districts of the West Riding and the cotton districts of Lancashire . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is only through the dedicated actions of many parents that the meeting took place . |
| 5 | The religious observances of the inhabitants of Corbridge are well attested , not only through the structural remains of the six or so temples which lined the south side of the main east-west street near the military compounds but also through the number of dedications and items of religious sculpture which have been recovered from the site ; quite a number , though , of the dedications were made by military personnel or army units . |
| 6 | The Bretton Woods arrangements tried to ensure cooperation in the international monetary system , not only through the institutional arrangements for the operation of the IMF but also through the widespread acceptance of certain rules of conduct . |
| 7 | The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time . |
| 8 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 9 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 10 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 11 | The collection of essays edited by Joyce ( 1987 ) is an important contribution to the history of work , not only for the satisfying ways in which it challenges orthodoxy about the social and political role of work , but also for its advocacy of the need to rethink work as a social construct . |
| 12 | If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances . |
| 13 | However , as for small group tutorials , colloquia and seminars are usually held only for the senior years of the course . |
| 14 | But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell . |
| 15 | Only during the occasional bursts of sunshine did they begin to sing with birds and bugs . |
| 16 | It was only during the early decades of the present century that English studies ( or , more simply , " English " ) in its recognizably modern disciplinary form began to offer an educationally significant challenge to the intellectual and cultural prestige long invested in classics . |
| 17 | Numerical simulation of pressure-temperature-time paths of amphibolitic oceanic crust shows that partial melting can occur only during the early stages of subduction initiated in hot , young ( 50Myr ) oceanic lithosphere . |
| 18 | In the past , fleas used to be a problem only during the warmer months of the year in temperate areas , but now the advent of central heating has enabled these parasites to plague dogs and their owners for much of the year . |
| 19 | The dualist position , as we saw in Chapter I , distinguishes only between the two levels of " expression " and " content " . |
| 20 | Caught against the muscular hardness of his chest , warm and alien through the fine silk of his shirt , a matter of inches only between the shadowy regions of hip and groin , the familiar disturbing responses were shimmering through her bloodstream . |
| 21 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 22 | There follow accounts not only of the four voyages of Christopher Columbus but of the life of Cortez and conquest of Mexico , followed by specialised essays on the peoples and art of Mexico , Central America , Peru and Amazonia , with particular emphasis on the art of the island of Marajo at the mouth of the Amazon , in which the Barbier-Mueller Museum holdings are particularly rich . |
| 23 | Matters which the partners might wish to settle in advance include their rights to bid for partnership assets ( since the court would probably not grant the necessary authority to one only of the former partners against the objection of the others ) , the transfer of assets to individual partners in specie , the manner in which sales of partnership property should be conducted ( by private treaty or at auction ) , advertisement of the dissolution , and provisions conferring special authority upon individual partners in any respect during the winding-up of the firm . |
| 24 | Many respondents found the discussion paper 's proposals in this area confusing or illogical , which caused the Board to re-examine it and to propose requiring disclosure only of the total amounts of the respective kinds of interest in shareholders ' funds . |
| 25 | Because in reaching its decision it takes account not only of the technical merits in terms of traffic relief but also , the wider impact er the other factors in terms of the route and also public opinion . |
| 26 | It was significant that this terse declaration spoke only of the military aspects of what had been above all a social and political conflict . |
| 27 | He had the advantage of being a poet himself and a member of a circle of respectable poets , of whom the best was Simon Dach , at Königsberg ; he had wide musical knowledge , not only of the Italian masters of monody , as he reveals in one of his greatest songs , ‘ O der rauhen Grausamkeit ’ : but of other foreign song , French and even Polish , from which he borrowed with due acknowledgement . |
| 28 | This consists not only of the direct costs of making the film , such as the purchase of equipment and labour ; but also the indirect , tourist effects of spending in hotels , shops and restaurants . |
| 29 | Now dwelling only amongst the remotest regions of Third World nations , they represent the final fraying link in a hitherto unbroken chain of memory which stretches to the roots of the whole human tribe . |
| 30 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |