Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It enables a person to achieve results which can be achieved only through an advance commitment to a whole series of actions , rather than by case to case examination . |
| 32 | The conduct of pedagogic research as I have defined it here presupposes attitudes and approaches to techniques of teaching which are developed only through an educational perspective and this in turn calls for a continuous programme of in-service support . |
| 33 | The great agricultural countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea can free themselves from patriarchal-feudal barbarism only through an agrarian revolution which will transform the peasants from their condition of serfdom or of subjection to the corvée into the free owners of the land — a revolution which will be exactly the same as the French revolution of 1789 in the countryside . |
| 34 | In the Soviet Union successions to the general secretaryship after Stalin were achieved in a relatively orderly fashion but entirely as an internal party matter with no element of public choice . |
| 35 | It was clearly felt that PAF should be regarded entirely as an automatic fee in recognition of a teacher qualified and belonging to a professional Society . |
| 36 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 37 | The Anti-Rex crawled down the wall of the Butcher Building and in through an open window . |
| 38 | Instead officers climbed in through an open window and arrested Mr Bellamy . |
| 39 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 40 | So much for an early start . |
| 41 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , for many years within the referral area of the Plymouth eye infirmary , people have had to wait excessively long periods not only for an initial eye examination but for subsequent treatment ? |
| 42 | One important function of and in a piece of writing like this is to signal to the reader that the sentences are meant to be=read together as an integrated whole . |
| 43 | An agreement to come together as an economic unit was reached by the exiled governments in 1944 , though the scheme did not envisage any political arrangements . |
| 44 | Thus land development was important for capital when North Shields was being put together as an industrial town and it seems to be important again when its industrial base is being taken apart . |
| 45 | But here , too , the presence of a group of agitated , hostile prey animals , all assembled together as an opposing force , is usually too much for the predator . |
| 46 | … I have always been able to accept non-cooperation only as an effective instrument of nationalist propaganda . |
| 47 | Only as an apparent afterthought did the Captain ask : |
| 48 | But when the volume was first published it appeared only as an expensive hardback and the opportunity for exploring an important range of writing was restricted to specialists and students willing to pass around a library copy . |
| 49 | An unblinded design was necessary for this study , since artemether is commercially available only as an intramuscular injection , but intravenous quinine remains the treatment of choice for cerebral malaria in children . |
| 50 | Holding her breath , Theda crept behind one of the wide pillars , carefully put down her portmanteau , and crouched down , trying to make herself visible only as an unidentifiable hump . |
| 51 | Of course H is intended only as an easy illustration of what might go wrong — and go wrong it does in some of the important generalisations of Z that arise in Section 3.6 . |
| 52 | My comments on his work were valuable only as an irritating pretext which permitted him to lecture me on Art . |
| 53 | The table above calculates your interest payments per month , although it should be used only as an approximate guide . |
| 54 | The validity of these take up assumptions is obviously affected by the passage of time from late August to late September and the firmness of the UF figures is known from experience to vary widely between fields ; the estimated enrolment figures are therefore used only as an approximate guide to the Co-ordinator and senior tutors in deciding on the numbers of late offers to be made at special weekly meetings of the MAC in September . |
| 55 | In fact mental experience can be consulted only retrospectively and such experience , as evidence for the existence of mind , can appear only as an introspective report of past events . |
| 56 | Side altars and crypt altars survived , if at all , only as an unused oddity whose purpose would require considerable explanation for the young . |
| 57 | A typical section began with a floridly imaginative scamper through C-Jam Blues , using the tune only as an occasional reference . |
| 58 | We are works of art , belonging to a world that is itself an aesthetic phenomenon ; and this is our highest claim to dignity , " for only as an aesthetic phenomenon can existence and the world be eternally justified " . |
| 59 | The explanation of this can only be in metaphysical terms , namely that " only as an aesthetic phenomenon are existence and the world seen to be justified " . |
| 60 | My Lords , is the er Noble Minister aware that the site er which is referred to is not of great market value in the sense that it is scheduled by the planning authority for use only as an open space or for community housing . |