Example sentences of "only at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her other Scottish attendants were quickly despatched home ; only at the insistence of Mary of Guise was her daughter 's governess , Lady Fleming , allowed to remain — until 1551 , when a brief affair with the French king ensured her disgrace and expulsion . |
| 2 | Tawney , on the occasion of the celebrations of the District 's twenty-first anniversary in June 1934 , perceptively recognised that the District ‘ … was only at the beginning of their task … ’ but was perhaps a little wide of the mark in claiming that the ‘ … |
| 3 | We are only at the beginning of a change which became more conspicuous later . |
| 4 | Daiwa suspected that something was amiss only at the beginning of this year , when it uncovered evidence that attempts had been made to forge security depositary receipts . |
| 5 | The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | ‘ As yet , ’ said the Inspector imperturbably , ‘ we 're only at the beginning of our enquiries . |
| 7 | Finally , we realise that we are only at the beginning of what may prove to be one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century . |
| 8 | It was only at the beginning of July that she was again taken ill . |
| 9 | Fael-Inis continued to play without ceasing , and the music spun and shivered and soothed , and across the slanting features there was a look of the utmost concentration now , for it is only at the invitation of a Mortal that the Lad of the Skins can enter a house and do his terrible work . |
| 10 | Only at the University of Dorpat , in Estonia , did the intellectual atmosphere change rather slowly . |
| 11 | Last week , the Estonian Parliament compromised on both fronts — but only at the price of jeopardising the alliance between nationalists and the republic 's Communist Party which has hitherto allowed Estonia so nimbly to sidestep a decisive confrontation with Moscow . |
| 12 | Capitalist society … can maintain a relative equilibrium only at the price of painful crises ; the adaptation of the various parts of the social organism to each other and to the whole can be achieved only with a colossal waste of energy . |
| 13 | The ILP did so only at the price of appearing to abstain altogether from the politics of what almost everyone else took to be the real world . |
| 14 | Two respondents indicated that all ordinands in their college have their singing voices assessed during their training , and then receive instruction as necessary , Others offer training in singing only at the request of the ordinand , or the tutor or parish placement supervisor . |
| 15 | The prince said he would do so only at the head of an army of 60,000 men ; the parlement pronounced him a contumacious vassal , and sentenced him to loss of the duchy . |
| 16 | Disciplines which exist only at the intersection of other disciplines may be regarded as merely derivative or parasitic , and their very identity doubted or denied ( Albrow 1986 ) . |
| 17 | As the Chief Secretary takes refuge in international comparisons , especially with the other countries of the Group of Seven , will he explain why the United Kingdom is not only at the bottom of the investment league of the G7 , but at the bottom of the investment league of leading European nations ? |
| 18 | That that the matter is not urgent and should be dealt with only at the receipt of a vote from Education Committee , I move A standing order A thirteen E be suspended for this meeting and B the motion and amendment be referred to the Education Committee for report without being debated at this meeting . |
| 19 | But the scattered activity of different parts of the nervous system seems to converge only at the cost of merging , and so losing , the components that come together in the process of convergence , rather in the manner of snowflakes joining a drift . |
| 20 | They may intervene in the work of some departments but only at the cost of neglecting broad strategy and the work of others . |
| 21 | In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory ; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the , numerically preponderant , boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine . |
| 22 | Even within one crop , varieties are often introduced in an attempt to maximise yields , but succeed only at the cost of decreasing soil protection by foliage at times of heaviest rainfall ( David Gibbon , personal communication ) . |
| 23 | What culture tries to make out of them seems attainable only at the cost of a sensible loss of pleasure ; the persistence of the impulses that are not enrolled in adult sexual activity makes itself felt in an absence of satisfaction . |
| 24 | Man 's cultural development can arise only at the cost of a persisting lack of satisfaction of those sexual impulses which are seen as improper by men and women — the higher the degree of civilization and education , the greater the number of unsatisfied impulses . |
| 25 | But the hysteric purchased her escape from the effects of frequent sexual demands on her life only at the cost of pain , disability and an intensification of women 's traditional dependence . |
| 26 | This new sort of foundationalist , who will be considered further in chapter 6 , could escape the demands of F 2 , but only at the cost of abandoning the foundationalists ' favourite weapon , the regress argument . |
| 27 | The United States under Reagan reduced its share , but only at the cost of a large budget deficit . |
| 28 | But this explanation is achieved only at the cost of excluding a very wide range of other factors , and offers us no coherent , integrated answer to the question ‘ What causes the peasant to observe this ethic ? ’ — a question that can not really be answered in this methodology . |
| 29 | Syria has massive internal problems and most observers consider that apparent domestic calm has been bought only at the cost of severe repression of popular opposition to the country 's participation in the war . |
| 30 | In the North-West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) , the PPP coalition administration of Chief Minister Aftab Sherpao successfully resisted the attempts of the IJI and its allies to unseat it , but only at the cost of offering government jobs and incentives to secure the support of independents . |