Example sentences of "is only [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is only of benefit in big events where the skill and fitness of the top sailors are all very similar and it is the state of mind that matters . |
| 2 | The point to emphasise is that the data is only of help to those who know the patient and can build up a case history . |
| 3 | Sadly , whilst remarkable in their own right , the output from these printers is only of use as a proof or a one-off print for two simple reasons . |
| 4 | Evidently , this particular specific dictionary is only of use in recognising text from its own domain . |
| 5 | They thus tend to be solely related to a company and its products , and remain unpublished as their content is only of interest to their direct users and competitors . |
| 6 | Discussion is only of interest to those participating in it , and many young children find it extremely difficult to articulate their ideas verbally — especially before they 've actually done what you 're talking about . |
| 7 | The first , emphasised in the traditional readings of , say , Schopenhauer and Regan , is that kindness to animals is only of value as a psychological cause of human fellow-feeling . |
| 8 | , c ( 7500 is only for use in the case of hi-jacking ) . |
| 9 | This is not truly a third party claim , as the basis for the claim of material breach is party status to the first treaty ; it is only with respect to the subsequent treaty that there is a third party relationship . |
| 10 | First team custodian Fred Barber is only on loan from Peterborough for a month , so there is a good chance that Munson will make his Division Three debut before the end of this campaign . |
| 11 | Since the female is only on heat for a few days and the males are often widely scattered , these scents are vital for bringing the sexes together at the right time . |
| 12 | The engine , built at Swindon in 1953 , is only on hire for the winter . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope you realise that it is only on account of the entreaty of Taheb that I see you , Huy , ’ were his words of greeting . |
| 14 | But still the likely reality is that Britain will be increasingly demoted by Washington to its proper station — a second-rank nation , perhaps one day a third-rank nation , whose importance is only as part of the European Community . |
| 15 | As Marwick has argued , ‘ It is only through knowledge of its history that a society can have knowledge of itself ’ , and Carr has said that ‘ The more sociological history becomes and the more historical sociology becomes , the better for both . ’ |
| 16 | However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it . |
| 17 | It is only through consciousness in action arising out of the contradictions of the real relations , that any transformation of either class consciousness or economic relations will come about . |
| 18 | There is also a simple desire to enhance one 's own well-being by widening the contrast with another 's distress ; and this too attracts towards his viewpoint , since it is only in awareness from other personal or temporal viewpoints that one 's well-being is experienced as relative arousing envy of another 's happiness or nostalgia for one 's own in the past . |
| 19 | Hence it is only in respect of private companies that problems are still likely to arise when their articles provide , as they frequently do , that ‘ the company shall have a first and paramount lien on shares , whether or not fully-paid , registered in the name of a person indebted or under any liability to the company . ’ |
| 20 | Nevertheless object-words or names , on their own , despite their intrinsic " completeness " , are strictly void of significance , and it is only in combination with certain predicative symbols — viz. certain one-place , or more-than one-place , predicables , as the case may be — that they produce meaningful wholes . |
| 21 | Despite plans for market integration in Latin America and between the United States , Mexico and Canada , it is only in relation to the European Community that integration can properly be discussed at present . |
| 22 | Hence today such schemes will rarely lead to the creation of a special class of share ; it is only in relation to their allotment , financing , and provision for re-purchase by the company or the trustees of the scheme that there will be special arrangements which the Act facilitates by exclusions from the normal restrictions on purchase of own shares and on the provision of finance by a company for the acquisition of its shares . |
| 23 | So far we have mentioned two reasons why theories must be seen as organized structures of some kind : the fact that historical study shows theories to possess that feature and the fact that it is only by way of a coherently structured theory that concepts acquire a precise meaning . |
| 24 | An equitable mortgagee seeking possession is in precisely the same position as a legal mortgagee ( Barclays Bank Ltd v Bird [ 1954 ] Ch 274 at p 280 ) , but the remedy of an equitable chargee is only by way of sale ( see The Supreme Court Practice Vol 1 at 50/1 — 9/23 ) . |
| 25 | Thus it is only by reference to a standard of normality that we can identify and respond to actions such as those of children and the insane . |
| 26 | It is only by reference to the contribution of ‘ environment ’ , both social and physical , to the spread of heroin use that conclusions might be drawn as to why heroin use reached ‘ epidemic ’ proportions in such a short space of time in the Wirral area . |
| 27 | What is beyond the boundaries of his own home ground is an outside world composed of impersonal structures and processes over which he has no control , of if he does have some control , it is only by virtue of some formal authority vested in an office that he occupies . |