Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What begins by looking just a little off parallel might become wildly different . |
| 2 | Only through composition can pupils acquire effective mastery of the enlarged vocabulary with which they become acquainted through literature , but which remains inert in their minds without the exercise of applying it to the expression of their own thought . |
| 3 | Only through industrialization would independence from the West be maintained , as the internal weaknesses of China and its consequent loss of territory had shown . |
| 4 | According to Howard , ‘ the public from the very beginning of the photodrama has centered its interests on the personalities of the screen ’ because ‘ only through personality can the multitude be satisfied ’ . |
| 5 | Only through membership would her economy be sufficiently exposed to the rigours of competition . |
| 6 | There is a risk that what is intended to be an aid only during training can become an undesirable crutch in that performance comes to depend on it but this is rare and can be avoided by using a suitable time delay , thus ensuring that it is really learning and not action feedback . |
| 7 | Governments caring sufficiently about redistribution might still prefer inefficient allocations with greater vertical equity . |
| 8 | The guaranteed customers ( even if at cut-price ) twice daily during term-time can assist the financial success of many rural bus routes , which can sometimes also be used by adults to travel to nearby centres . |
| 9 | But I think of course we can all debate er the various individual proposals and I think if we were in control of the council not only of course would we have different policies but the sort of detailed matters which would come up in debate would be discussed in committee , things would be in the normal way . |
| 10 | The mediation theory is founded on the notion of acquired equivalence and only with difficulty can predict an acquired distinctiveness effect . |
| 11 | Both local associations pointed unambiguously to slavery itself as the disruptive factor ; only with emancipation would ‘ a Population of turbulent Slaves [ be ] converted into one of peaceable Colonists ’ . |
| 12 | At any rate such verses prevent us from supposing that only with modernism could fruitful contact with Virgil be resumed , or that late-Victorian Virgilianism was the perquisite of Alfred Lord Tennyson . |
| 13 | Certainly it dimmed the brightness of some of the mehfils — one noble was forced to ‘ lay his capital at the feet of the Emperor ’ during the invasion and afterwards his mehfils are described as ‘ subdued ’ — but there is no indication that Khan regarded the invasion as the end of an era ; only with hindsight would that become clear . |
| 14 | In the case of mouth , if one knew what an animal 's mouth was , and one were to hear , for the first time , a reference to the mouth of a river , I surmise that there would be little difficulty in construing the meaning ; but suppose one were familiar only with mouth used to refer to the mouth of a river , and one heard a reference to the horse 's mouth , it is by no means certain that one 's attention would be directed to the appropriate end of the horse ! |
| 15 | Only with acceptance will they find emotional freedom and energy . |
| 16 | IBM Corp 's Advanced Workstations & Systems Division ( AWSD ) , the company 's increasingly pivotal RISC systems unit , is smack in the middle of two internal joint ventures that together with AWSD could be the remaking of IBM , given enough time . |
| 17 | These three colours when mixed together with black will produce a reasonable reproduction of all other colours . |
| 18 | This would lead to a mixing of chemicals and cause explosions that together with flooding would make evacuation practically impossible . |
| 19 | Transarc Corp , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , has signed for the software and together with Retix will integrate it with the Encina transaction processing monitor it markets . |
| 20 | Lifestyle is important — irregular bedtime hours and spending too long in bed can contribute to over-sleepiness . |
| 21 | Only in bed could he find any ease , and he started to spend most of his time there . |
| 22 | He was a small man , bald and beady-eyed and turkey-necked , and only in retrospect could she see that he 'd probably been something of a mental case as well . |
| 23 | If the client 's product is to be shown , special labels to show up better on film may need to be ordered . |
| 24 | However , a person who based his or her sense of worth entirely on achievement would be much more likely to succumb to depression in the event of such employment problems . |
| 25 | Those fishkeepers with reef tanks based entirely on rock will probably find small mushroom polyps appearing here and there , wherever there is a quiet spot , as they can adhere firmly to solid substrates . |
| 26 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 27 | A tradition that was based only on communication could not lead to the compulsive character that attaches to religious phenomena . |
| 28 | A putative theory of science based only on description would be open to some of the same objections as were levelled against the naive inductivist account of how scientific theories themselves are arrived at . |
| 29 | A gallery named after Robert Mapplethorpe and devoted entirely to photography will be created on the fourth level of the new addition to the Frank Lloyd Wright building on Fifth Avenue . |
| 30 | Robert Smillie , who became the leader of the Miners ' Federation , told the 1911 conference : " I think it is a shame and a disgrace that the lives of our miners ' wives , from four in the morning until 11 o'clock at night should be one long day of slavery . " |