Example sentences of "only by [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linguistic research which was meant to help women understand and change their reality is being used here to hurt them , if only by creating in the mind of the female reader one more problem , a linguistic inadequacy for which she must blame herself . |
| 2 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 3 | It is suggested that only by acting on the systems which constrain them can women hope to free themselves , and each of the three novels explores different possible forms this discursive action can take . |
| 4 | When John Major is invited to sign the treaty devised by Jacques Delors , he should not only by thinking about the likely effects on the British economy , but also about Eastern Europe 's moral claims on the existing members of the EC . |
| 5 | But most of the Yorkist establishment had remained loyal to Edward IV and the rebels ultimately achieved a precarious viability only by looking outside the realm for support : to Louis XI of France and the exiled Lancastrians whom he harboured . |
| 6 | But most of the Yorkist establishment had remained loyal to Edward IV and the rebels ultimately achieved a precarious viability only by looking outside the realm for support : to Louis XI of France and the exiled Lancastrians whom he harboured . |
| 7 | You have free access to the family outside their house , but when they are inside you can investigate them only by looking through the windows of their house . |
| 8 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
| 9 | Only by looking at the fish from all angles can you be sure all is well : the belly is a favourite site for bacterial ulcers , for instance . |
| 10 | Anderson argues strongly that such patterns can be explained only by looking at the material advantages and disadvantages of people living together . |
| 11 | How oppressive the satraps were in reality is a question which can be answered only by looking at the second area in which Persia impinged , tribute and military service . |
| 12 | The educational aspects of social change can be assessed only by looking at the local education authorities . |
| 13 | Only by concentrating on the object can you both analyse it and celebrate it . |
| 14 | It is only by concentrating on the differential element that literary studies can maintain its specific object of study . |
| 15 | It is only by preparing for the future that Lothian Highways staff can ensure that there will be a successful future . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , it is not certainly fictitious , for the paucity of English sources on the later years of Cnut 's reign makes their silence inconclusive , and Robert may have been moved not only by feeling for the æthelings and his apparent friendship for their sister Godgifu 's husband , Count Dreux of the Vexin , but also by memories of his rift with Cnut 's sister Estrith . |
| 17 | R v Secretary of State for Home Department , Ex parte Kuku ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls and Staughton LJJ ) ; 28 Sept 1989 It is highly desirable that foreign nationals to whom r 10 of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 169 applies should not only by warned by the Home Office of the necessity under s 3(4) of the Immigration Act 1971 of obtaining a visa if seeking re-entry to the UK after a short visit abroad , but that that warning should take the form of a document attached to the foreign national 's passport , so there is no question of any misapprehension . |
| 18 | The latter he can do only by depositing with the collector the whole amount of the duty . |
| 19 | Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths . |