Example sentences of "[pers pn] is only [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it is difficult to imagine such a state of affairs , but in fact Marx , especially in Formen makes it quite clear that this is not what he meant at all ; it is only under the influence of Morgan in The Origin that Engels might possible by construed to have implied something so unlikely . |
| 2 | Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) . |
| 3 | It is only over the question of Faculty examinations and the associated ‘ grandfathering ’ provisions that there is a material divergence of views between the two bodies . |
| 4 | ‘ The use of bed and breakfast is still hovering close to record levels , ’ says Pawson , ‘ It is only through the boom in short-term leasing that boroughs have been able to avoid further increases in hotel placements . ’ |
| 5 | If you do not choose the insurance policy that we have arranged with the Norwich Union , please ensure that you are fully protected against possible delays , as it is only through the policy that you have bought that compensation can be paid to you . |
| 6 | It is only through the most tinted of retrospective spectacles that the 1960s can appear as a golden age , and least of all in the deprived areas to which the Report correctly gave so much attention : |
| 7 | It is only through the sound doctrine of a rectilinear course that we can escape from I know not what false cycles discovered by false and deceitful sages . |
| 8 | This cause has been championed not because of the prestige which the word ‘ science ’ carries with it , but because it is only through the better employment of scientific method that sociology can hope to develop as a true academic discipline , free from the biases introduced by ideologists or the wish to sway current social policy . |
| 9 | This gives great emphasis to the contention that it is only through the teaching of the children that there can be any progress towards a better world , and by which the complete breakdown of man 's fragile and very young civilisation can be avoided . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is only through the dedicated actions of many parents that the meeting took place . |
| 11 | If there are difficulties in claiming that ahi sā is the right way in all circumstances and that the way of violence can never lead to Truth , there are similar difficulties in assuming that no violation of moral duty is involved in the practice of satyāgraha , or that it is only through the practice of satyāgraha that we show ourselves to be informed by the spirit of Truth and non-violence . |
| 12 | It is only through the work of Christ , through the impact on us of what he has done , that we can recognise him as divine and describe his person in divine terms . |
| 13 | It is only through the cross , only through the ‘ No ! ’ of judgement and destruction , that God 's will to affirm us as his children can be heard ; but the affirmation is the real purpose of the negation . |
| 14 | It is only through the influence of individuals who can set an example , and whom the masses recognize as their leaders , that they can be induced to perform the work and undergo the renunciations on which the existence of civilization depends . |
| 15 | It is only through the development of subject-object relations that the subject as such comes to be constituted . |
| 16 | It is only through the creation of a distance between subject and object that consciousness may arise , as the awareness of being a subject , which ‘ is already of objectification ’ ( 1978 : 63 ) . |
| 17 | It is only through the giving of form that something can be conceived of . |
| 18 | Piaget and Klein also show that it is only through the intrinsically dynamic relationship between the infant and its environment that the subject is able to become itself . |
| 19 | It might be suggested that it is only through the presence of the frame that we recognize the work of art for what it is , perceiving it and responding to it in the appropriate way . |
| 20 | It is only through the radical reconception of language use prefigured here that she is able truly to break with the traditional novel . |
| 21 | It is only through the agency of the Holy Spirit , enabling us to repent and believe , convicting us of sin and making Jesus attractive to us , that we ever become Christians . |
| 22 | According to Epting ( 1981 ) it is only through the continuous creation of new constructs that an individual can hope to deal with an ever-changing world . |
| 23 | Increasing numbers , increasing opportunities , and new ideas proved solvents of the old hierarchy ; and it is only towards the end of our period that a new type of hierarchy , with ideals and aspirations of a novel sophistication , was beginning once again to build walls round the classes of society . |
| 24 | It is only on the more remote cliffs and islands that they have escaped the degradation of interbreeding with man-manipulated colour forms , and retain the true original plumage . |
| 25 | It is only on the basis of such a model that the government , which considers one of its basic functions to be the management of the economy , can predict what the effect will be of a change in one of its policies . |
| 26 | Despite the many points of contact between the study of film or media and the study of literature , despite the fact that there exist theorists such as Barthes who have made important contributions to the study of film and the study of literature , it is only on the communications courses that such theorists are studied . |
| 27 | B : Well , the milkman has come It is only on the basis of assuming the relevance of B's response that we can understand it as providing a partial answer to A's question . |
| 28 | It is only at the wedding that the two people most concerned are actually fully involved in the decision to have a religious ceremony , albeit not always as a result of a happy consensus , but nevertheless under pressure from some influence which inculcates the belief that some benefit will accrue to the marriage from the involvement of a believed-in ‘ god ’ . |
| 29 | In Gray 's Elegy there is also a ‘ hoary-headed Swain' , who addresses a ‘ kindred spirit ’ ( to the dead poet ) ‘ led by lonely contemplation ’ ; there may be other parallels , but it must be conceded at this point that it is only at the close of Hartleap Well that Wordsworth approaches closely to Gray 's verse movement : |
| 30 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |