Example sentences of "only by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So is soft touch detection a dead art — doomed , like the buffalo , to guest appearances in Kevin Kostner movies — condemned to historical interest only by the unrelenting march of graded lists and guidebook waymarks ? |
| 2 | The last ten years have brought into the open the struggle between the oligarchy , supported by the United States , and a substantial section of the population , represented not only by the armed opposition FMLN but by trade unions , popular organizations , women 's groups , Christian base communities and the liberal intelligentsia . |
| 3 | Hence it is appropriate that the recitals should be used as an aid to interpretation not only by the European Court itself , but by any court dealing with the interpretation of a Community legal text , for example a British court or tribunal of any level . |
| 4 | His presence in the pitch darkness was marked only by the dull glow of a cigarette , its red tip pulsing into light every few moments to reveal the black pencil of the Colonel 's moustache as he sat , immobile behind his desk , reflecting on the previous day 's visitor . |
| 5 | Wives and mothers of British seamen were reported as incensed , not only by the low pay of their menfolk , but also by the medical examination to which they were subjected on signing on , " mauled about and handled as though they were a piece of New Zealand mutton " . |
| 6 | Finubar 's reign was marred only by the great Chaos Incursion when it looked as if the Dark Powers had returned once more to claim the world . |
| 7 | Only by the merest chance would a traveller through space happen upon the planet Earth ; a tiny jewel of a place , orbiting an unexceptional star in an ordinary galaxy , but — miracle of miracles — providing precisely those conditions , neither too hot nor too cold , nor too dense nor too sparse , where the astonishingly delicate processes of life can unfold . |
| 8 | The language was comprehensible only by the greatest concentration ; the issues mind-boggling ; the logic of past actions difficult to recollect and harder still to articulate . |
| 9 | The maillot arc-en-ciel is the rainbow jersey worn only by the current world champion . |
| 10 | In the Federal Republic , the ‘ chancellor-democracy ’ has at its disposal a continually growing government and management expertise which outlasts all parliaments : the twenty year long permanence of this government constellation is modified only by the federal structure . |
| 11 | We saw above that there was one other speaker who was generally correctly identified as black — but in this case , only by the black group . |
| 12 | What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king . |
| 13 | What was needed was someone outside and above the territorial nexus , requirements fulfilled only by the young king . |
| 14 | Their ranks were swelled not only by the general growth of the economy and steady expansion of secondary and higher education but also by the rapid development of services run under the aegis of the zemstvos and staffed by the so-called ‘ third element ’ — teachers , doctors , statisticians , veterinary surgeons , and agricultural experts of various kinds . |
| 15 | Americans were bothered not only by the Baltic crackdown in January but by the Soviet reaction to American complaints about it . |
| 16 | This is especially so as the local plan makes no reference whatever to the proposal to effectively change from a washed-over to an inset status , while the greenbelt local plan refers to that change only by the one word , quote proposed unquote , in parentheses on page twenty five of the deposit copy . |
| 17 | His feelings of inferiority were compounded only by the vague sense of unease that his careerism and social mobility had possibly been misguided from the outset . |
| 18 | ’ It was the soft-shoe théâtre noir for prime time television , broken only by the agitated voice of an American security guard wearing a blue T-shirt yelling : ‘ Come on . |
| 19 | Their ascendancy was ended only by the resolute action of the young Edward III himself , in a coup which restored the authority of the monarchy and freed the king from domination by faction . |
| 20 | By permutations of these various incidents the number of possible classes is limited only by the total number of shares . |
| 21 | Since it is setting out to achieve what it is not possible to achieve , uniformity ( always dangerous ) will be maintained only by the serious erosion of individual freedom . |
| 22 | This was a genuine and reasonable cause for concern at a time when the peace of the Onny valley was not disturbed by the frequent and fast motor traffic of today , but only by the infrequent passage of a Bishop 's Castle Railway train . |
| 23 | There was a sudden , yawning silence broken only by the slight hiss of oxygen to the mask over Mrs Thompson 's face . |
| 24 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 25 | Indeed in one melee outside the gates Richard was thrown from his horse and rescued only by the strong arm of a sturdy butcher . |
| 26 | Peptides were identified in the four sequenced pre-erythrocytic antigens of P. falciparum : ( 1 ) circumsporozoite protein ( CSP ) , a 412 amino-acid sporozoite protein ; ( 2 ) thrombospondin-related anonymous protein ( TRAP ) , 559 amino acids and expressed by sporozoites and blood-stage parasites ; ( 3 ) liver-stage-specific antigen-1 ( ref. 24 , 25 ) , 1,909 amino acids and expressed only by the liver-stage parasite ; and ( 4 ) sporozoite hepatocyte-binding antigen ( SHEBA or Pfs16 ) , 157 amino acids and found in both sporozoites and gametocytes . |
| 27 | There was a silence , broken only by the faint lapping of the water . |
| 28 | There was silence for a moment as they held each other 's eyes , broken only by the faint sound of dance music from down below . |
| 29 | His view was that the breaking down of large organizations was delayed only by the political power of European governments and workers ' movements . |
| 30 | So , for example , the duty of the Secretary of State for Health under the National Health Service Act 1946 to promote the establishment of a comprehensive health service is , no doubt , non-justiciable : this duty could be enforced , if at all , only by the political process . |