Example sentences of "[verb] only by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past decade , some CF centres have reported increased isolations of P cepacia that can not be explained only by improved laboratory proficiency in culture and identification . |
| 2 | In Japan , robotics seems to be limited only by human imagination and technology . |
| 3 | It was in a constant state of reoccupation , favoured only by marginal or twilight enterprises indifferent to a fundamentally inhuman environment . |
| 4 | A minority , including many grasses , grow aperiodically , continuing until stopped only by bad weather in autumn and resuming in spring . |
| 5 | The vast tracts of sterile desert land were broken only by irregular patches of short , dry grasses or rough scrubland . |
| 6 | The ‘ insipid monotony ’ of a social life without a press ( only two government papers were tolerated ) , without clubs , without ‘ respectable cafes ’ , was broken only by religious and court festivals . |
| 7 | The strike was broken only by widespread flogging and imprisonment , but it was clear that if the Danzig Poles — by tradition the meekest of them all — were willing to protest , then Polish resistance as a whole must have stiffened considerably . |
| 8 | The quarter-century of sustained growth , broken only by minor interruptions , provided a favourable climate for the growth of self-help Consumers ' Co-operation operating in a buoyant and free domestic market : Producers ' Co-operation , the self-governing workshop , remained a means of protest against the generally accepted order , an out-of-fashion remnant from the hungry forties . |
| 9 | That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere . |
| 10 | But part of the necessary information can be gathered only by professional observation and requires the application of educational judgement before it can be used to assist in the formulation of recommendations for action " ( Audit Commission 1989:7 ) . |
| 11 | Fifteen years ago this plantation where we live and work today was virgin jungle inhabited only by savage herds of elephants ! |
| 12 | There would be no possibility of the second use of ‘ Here ’ in a non-spatial world , or in a spatial world inhabited only by non-spatial beings . |
| 13 | There would be no possibility of it in a non-spatial world , or in a spatial world inhabited only by non-spatial beings . |
| 14 | We too easily sit back and accept recordings as though they should be viewed inside a critical vacuum which is inhabited only by other recordings or recollections of ‘ live ’ performances . |
| 15 | ( iii ) Most sheep graze throughout their lives so that pasture contamination with nematode eggs and the intake of infective larvae is almost continuous and modified only by climatic restrictions . |
| 16 | The programme 's drafting commission voted 7 to 2 for the proposition that the national question could be solved only by socialist revolution and that the party slogan should not be new frontiers , but the abolition of all frontiers . |
| 17 | We believe that the dispute can be resolved only by peaceful agreement between India and Pakistan . |
| 18 | Re-definition , however , whether by the courts or Parliament , is at best a partial answer to the difficulties which have arisen , since the difficulties of construction are at least as important as those of substance and can be resolved only by statutory amendment of the rule that ‘ a gift for both charitable and non-charitable purposes wholly fails ’ . |
| 19 | This problem was resolved only by American involvement in the Second World War . |
| 20 | In all the many thousands of words that have been expended on Eliot 's achievements , this crucial matter — his alertness to , and exploiting of , the rhythms of the English verse-line — remains a vacuum , occupied only by unsupported and insupportable appeals to ‘ the ear ’ . |
| 21 | The antibiotic mould supposedly drifting in on the wind becomes prosaic when its magic is revealed only by tedious operations in a laboratory or factory . |
| 22 | We found it had been secured only by one-inch-long wood screws . |
| 23 | Once oil production commences the loan might become non-recourse and be secured only by resultant oil output and revenues . |
| 24 | At the Earthlight manse , women had been attended only by female servants , and men by male servants . |
| 25 | Suitable candidates for M are a dynamic-programming-type alignment score ( 16 ) of π , π m or a simpler and faster scoring scheme based on the numbers of pairs of mapped probes which are adjacent in π m and are separated only by unmapped probes in π . |
| 26 | However it is optimistic that most companies will be able to make the transition and that the industry 's financial resources , technical expertise and established market will keep it one of the highest rated in the world — at Moody 's , the industry 's average credit rating is double-A-2 , just below its double-A-1 average rating for phone companies outside the US , the highest rated group of all , and a rating matched only by global electrical equipment manufacturers , pharmaceutical companies and non-US electric utilities . |
| 27 | Some of this Katherine gleaned dimly from the set of house rules she read through three times in a room distinguished only by orderly barrenness . |
| 28 | Mobile once more and hindered only by misplaced ( in his view ) solicitude he rediscovered his freedom through sport , first fishing , then fellwalking , sailing and rock climbing . |
| 29 | The daily routine is disrupted only by extreme weather and by the rut , and even during the rut it is only the males whose activity is much changed . |
| 30 | However , along with the switch that could also be observed in connection with maternal age ( see Table 2 ) , the relationship assumed a more expressed " J " shape during the second half of the 1950s and , slowly , gave way around 1980 to an almost monotonously increasing linear form , disturbed only by random fluctuations after the fourth or fifth order . |