Example sentences of "come only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 2 | Any cuts would be on top of production line redundancies and would come only a year after GM finished cutbacks which slashed its white-collar staff by 40,000 to 140,000 worldwide . |
| 3 | The farmer 's prayer is to have good weather when his crop is at just the right stage to reap ; the ability to judge the state of a crop can come only with considerable experience . |
| 4 | The crucial test of the electro-weak theory will come only when the experimenters have several Z particles under their belts and can say exactly what its mass is . |
| 5 | He writes : ‘ No knowledgeable reading researcher disputes the fact that a higher level of national literacy will come only through a higher level of nationally shared information . ’ |
| 6 | There is a range of possible meanings that might be attached to these rather ambiguous words ; but , if no mortal man could be the doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold , it would scarcely matter from whom the bishop received the emblems of his office : the reality could come only from Christ . |
| 7 | More will come only if city halls scent a crisis . |
| 8 | Progress in reducing the number of deaths from paracetamol overdose may come only from preventing rather than treating fulminant hepatic failure . |
| 9 | Proof that these ailments are essentially genetically determined can come only through the knowledge of the DNA sequences of these genes and their variants . |
| 10 | First , insider dealing is an unpredictable form of reward ; in fact the opportunity to exploit inside information may come only ‘ once every ten years for each listed company . ’ |
| 11 | With the strength that can come only from fear he managed to draw his legs up until his heels were touching his buttocks . |
| 12 | Ruth saw that the light in this place did n't come only from the sun ; a faint glow fell from Miach , something like starlight — cool and pure , with colours at its heart . |
| 13 | Judicial ideas are no more immutable than any others and it may be that the above account is too pessimistic , but it seems likely that any future extension of strict liability will come only from the legislature . |
| 14 | He said he would come only if arrested . |
| 15 | Clearly archaeological evidence is insufficient in itself and absolute proof of official connections can come only from epigraphic sources . |
| 16 | My experience with organizations of all kinds in many different countries has convinced me that effective value-adding managerial leadership of subordinates can come only from an individual one category higher in cognitive capacity , working one category higher in problem complexity . |
| 17 | Given that the Secretary of State 's own appointed governor , the former chief inspector , Eric Bolton , said that the situation at the school is ’ unsatisfactory ’ and that the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers said that pupils and staff at Stratford school are ’ disturbed ’ , does the Minister recognise that the Secretary of State 's statement last week that Stratford school was ’ operating satisfactorily ’ had no basis in fact and could come only from a Secretary of State who sought to evade , rather than take , the responsibility which was plainly his ? |
| 18 | A continuous flow of information about the effectiveness of schools is also needed , and it can come only from a corps of local inspectors , properly supervised by a national inspectorate . |
| 19 | There will be need for support in that fashion , and that can satisfactorily come only through the International Monetary Fund . |
| 20 | This convergence , however , is some years away and meantime direct influence will come only from modest initiatives with little longterm significance . |
| 21 | It was recognised that the exclusive pursuit of higher things was very likely to be unremunerative except in certain of the more saleable arts , and even then prosperity would come only in mature years : the poor student or young artist , as private tutor or guest at the Sunday dinner-table , was a recognised subaltern part of the bourgeois family , at any rate in those parts of the world in which culture was highly respected . |
| 22 | I like you very much , Shelley , but I will come only as far as you ask me to . ’ |
| 23 | It emerged yesterday that officials of COSLA have already told the Scottish Office that it considers the break-even point on costings would come only if the number of new councils was limited to just over 20 and not at 43 as suggested by Touche Ross . |