Example sentences of "only [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final decision as to what to count is actually the solution to the problem in hand ; this decision is taken only through a long series of complicated exploratory maneuvers ’ ( Labov 1972a : 82 ) . |
| 2 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 3 | When the slings and arrows of outrageous everyday life buffet our heads , we escape to Assynt , even if only for a long weekend , and always return refreshed , perspective regained . |
| 4 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 5 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
| 6 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 7 | Transmission often succeeds only after a long incubation period , which decreases substantially after serial passaging . |
| 8 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 9 | The Pilkington float process , metal skis , xerography , are success stories , but only after a long time period , much effort and many technical difficulties . |
| 10 | We show that position-independent , copy number-dependent expression of the Ea d gene occurs only with the Long construct ( 8/8 transgenic mouse lines , over a range of copy numbers , 1-30 copies ) ; in contrast , the Short constructs are subject to position-dependent effects . |
| 11 | It is only in the long run that a match gradually emerges between what is seen to happen and what is said to happen . |
| 12 | More noteworthy is the declamatory freedom with which rhythms are interpreted — not only in the long solos for the second piano but also when these are accompanied by the most complicated rhythmic canons in the other instrument . |
| 13 | The good effects of war can be detected only in the long term , and there were bad effects too , while the consequences of coalition for the party were immediate and almost wholly negative . |