Example sentences of "only [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1760s Catherine II of Russia had in self-defence to issue decrees ordering her subjects to petition her only through the appropriate officials and not by the direct personal presentation to her of their grievances and requests . |
| 2 | Only through the rich utilization of this concept can we fully honor the human-worth value ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 3 | Certain tasks can be performed only through the combined efforts of a number of people working together — e.g. a police or a medical operation . |
| 4 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 5 | For those who see Methodism only through the solid shopkeeper image of Victorian times , this may seem a strange assertion . |
| 6 | The individual has his views represented in policy-making not only through the representative mechanism of elections but also through the participatory mechanism of group politics . |
| 7 | Throughout 1811 – 12 attacks on machinery took place not only through the stocking-making counties of Nottinghamshire , Leicestershire and Derbyshire but also in the woollen districts of the West Riding and the cotton districts of Lancashire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In Saigon , for example , the US Minister was urging that his country 's influence must be felt ‘ not only through the gravitational pull of our aid program but in actual participation in certain controls and in accelerating certain French concessions ’ . |
| 10 | It is only through the radical reconception of language use prefigured here that she is able truly to break with the traditional novel . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Indeed , it is only through the dedicated actions of many parents that the meeting took place . |
| 13 | And the Resins Group will continue its growth , not only through the further exploitation of its existing potential but in other ways . |
| 14 | It did so not only through the stringent processing of applications and the guidance it offered individual institutions , but also through more general analysis of the problems faced by institutions making the transition from ‘ monotechnic ’ to diversified colleges . |
| 15 | The first order condition ( 16 ) representing the WD curve is affected by the altered distribution of only through the median member 's ‘ reputation-commitment ’ term , . |
| 16 | Some power was always available — if only through the mythical Ways and Means Act — although it might have to be handled with kid gloves . |
| 17 | The religious observances of the inhabitants of Corbridge are well attested , not only through the structural remains of the six or so temples which lined the south side of the main east-west street near the military compounds but also through the number of dedications and items of religious sculpture which have been recovered from the site ; quite a number , though , of the dedications were made by military personnel or army units . |
| 18 | IBM Europe 's clone subsidiary , Individual Computer Products Ltd , due to be launched on June 4 , looks to kick off with at least three new systems : sources say that there will be a desktop , a notebook and mini-tower , the first two using the 80386SX , the tower an 80486SX ; all may be bundled with Microsoft Corp 's Windows and use the AT bus ; there are rumours of a degree of channel conflict with suggestions that the systems will be sold not only through the direct channel , but there are no details yet about alternative distribution ; the launch will be phased across Europe and France will be next in line . |
| 19 | The Bretton Woods arrangements tried to ensure cooperation in the international monetary system , not only through the institutional arrangements for the operation of the IMF but also through the widespread acceptance of certain rules of conduct . |
| 20 | We grasp the occasion only through the disjointed reflections . |
| 21 | Example 2:9 Right of way : limited times The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right at all times between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm on weekdays and between 8.30 am and 1.30 pm on Saturdays ( but not on public holidays ) to pass and repass on foot only through the main entrance to the building of which the demised property forms part and over the stairs and corridors leading therefrom to the demised property ( c ) Lifts A right to use a lift may be implied in the case of a letting on , say , the tenth floor of a block ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin [ 1977 ] AC 239 ) or where it would be inconvenient and uneconomic for the tenant to use the stairs ( Dikstein v Kanevsky [ 1947 ] VLR 216 ) . |
| 22 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 23 | The collection of essays edited by Joyce ( 1987 ) is an important contribution to the history of work , not only for the satisfying ways in which it challenges orthodoxy about the social and political role of work , but also for its advocacy of the need to rethink work as a social construct . |
| 24 | There follows the observation that the need for responsiveness to rapid technological change and fluctuating economic climate requires management to involve employees in the process of making decisions , if only for the practical reason that there will be great difficulty in carrying through decisions against resistance by trade unions . |
| 25 | Help was duly forthcoming — if only for the practical reason that the dollar was bound to suffer in the event of a sterling crisis . |
| 26 | Our investigations of characteristics of user establishments were made only for the private sector , since we assumed non-market forces to be of too great importance in the public sector to permit most of the relevant propositions to be tested . |
| 27 | The appointment of Stewart as vice-captain , opening batsman and wicketkeeper collapsed when Gooch missed the second Test , with Blakey consequently keeping wicket in two Tests when he was intended only for the one-day internationals . |
| 28 | It rests also on the insight that income " transferred " by this means was not used only for the minimum relief of destitution , for the old , widowed , orphaned and infirm , but also for the purchase of some " decencies " , for the supplementation of the earnings of the underemployed as well as the relief of the involuntarily unemployed , and for the apprenticing of the children of the poor . |
| 29 | The Mail in 1971–3 did not give the radio schedules , while the Times usually printed the wrong day 's schedules and then only for the General Service ( English ) , omitting altogether the Home Service ( Zambian languages ) to which the majority of its readership listened most of the time . |
| 30 | Often , it was argued that science degrees qualified students to enter ‘ general ’ jobs such as management as well as specialized scientific ones , whereas arts students could apply only for the general jobs . |