Example sentences of "only [prep] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just such a device was available in the shape of AM Varityper 's VT600 , a PostScript 600dpi plain paper page printer , although it was only through reading a year 's worth of back copies of the Desktop Publisher newsletter that Tony Gamble ever found out about it . |
| 2 | If it 's a ten p bit of influence , it 's only worth spending a couple of pence on it . |
| 3 | A psychiatrist was called in and Max was given the treatment he needed , but only after serving a month in Brixton . |
| 4 | If a firm is to be successful , it will have to generate sufficient income to cover the cost not only of financing a capital asset but of replacing it when it is worn out . |
| 5 | Doubters , sceptics and Benthamites sought to dissolve the mystery in the clear light of reason , but succeeded only in creating a vacuum that was equally disturbing . |
| 6 | Generally , though , the effect is one of stillness , of supreme design : it is only in passing a family raising picks over their heads to break the deep brown clods that you consider the huge effort which has made this landscape . |
| 7 | Three of these in particular — Rastafarianism , variously defined as a " religion " or as a " movement " ( Gilroy 1987 : 187 ) , reggae , and toasting — can be seen as significant not only in providing a centre of attraction towards Creole-based culture for black ( and some white ) youth at various times , but also in providing access to and models of Jamaican Creole through social networks and relatively high media profiles . |
| 8 | The designatory letters would be awarded only on reaching a benchmark standard common to all the specialisms . |
| 9 | With equal conviction a neighbouring headteacher might adopt quite a different approach — arguing that only by building a curriculum and a school day around the child can learning be effective and meaningful . |
| 10 | Some arguments could be answered unequivocally only by operating a rotor ship . |
| 11 | Well only by getting a lift to the clinic , yeah , that 's the only way she could get there |
| 12 | Many practices are worried that only by taking a fund can they retain some independence from what they fear may be increasingly arbitrary or incomplete control by the family health services authority or its eventual successor . |
| 13 | Wing specialists do n't even understand wings with full mathematical precision : they can predict how a wing will behave in turbulent conditions , only by examining a model in a wind tunnel or a computer simulation — the sort of thing a biologist might do to understand an animal . |
| 14 | Sometimes the delays can be psycho-social in origin , parents may be understimulating or neglecting the child , but this can be verified only by demonstrating a change in the child 's rate of progress once intervention has occurred . |
| 15 | These theories can account in broad terms for the compositional differences between the Earth and the Moon , but only by making a number of fairly detailed assumptions about the conditions in the PFM in the region where the Earth and the Moon formed . |