Example sentences of "only [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piaget and Klein also show that it is only through the intrinsically dynamic relationship between the infant and its environment that the subject is able to become itself . |
| 2 | It is only through the most tinted of retrospective spectacles that the 1960s can appear as a golden age , and least of all in the deprived areas to which the Report correctly gave so much attention : |
| 3 | The illusory world of " Maya " revealed its meaning — not only through the constantly shifting physical environment , but also through the all-night Wayang shadow-puppet dramas , where the shadow parade of gods and demons , creatures and people reflects the eternal dynamics between order and chaos . |
| 4 | Marx also believed that the day of Christianity was already past : it really belonged to an earlier , feudal pattern of society , and had been undermined beyond hope of recovery by the emergence of the bourgeois culture , which had already passed beyond it , and appeared to maintain it only for the most cynical of purposes . |
| 5 | It is only for the most severe disability class that the majority , 51 per cent , live in some form of institutional care . |
| 6 | Somehow she knew with an inner certainty that even if she had met Adam Burns only for the most fleeting of moments , those dark obsidian eyes would have burned themselves into her memory for ever . |
| 7 | Because of this , foreign currency mortgages , which are being sold very heavily at the moment by financial intermediaries ( linked to banks and other financial institutions which are providing the funds ) , are only for the financially sophisticated . |
| 8 | Take away the self-interest , and the residual appeal is enough only for the wholly unselfish . |
| 9 | However , I prefer the bass Peter Harvey on Virgin , if only for the simply gorgeous noise he makes , sounding rather like a lyric tenor down half an octave . |
| 10 | ‘ Is n't that only for the mentally handicapped ? ’ asked Nina curiously . |
| 11 | While exhorting the judiciary to use custodial sentences only for the really wicked , who commit serious offences , they have refused to compromise the supposed independence of the judiciary by interfering directly in the judicial process . |
| 12 | Female animals were used only for the less significant peace-offerings when animals of either sex could be sacrificed ( Lev . |
| 13 | However , the party did not follow this line ; otherwise they would have opposed independence for the more advanced Poland , Finland , the Baltic States and the Ukraine , and supported it only for the more backward minorities . |
| 14 | Whatever the method chosen , these invitations were issued only for the more important — i.e. expensive — funerals ; those of lesser rank had to rely on word of mouth . |
| 15 | This duly transpires , but only for the more serious offenders . |
| 16 | Political theories and doctrines are both affected by political conditions and the needs of practical action , just as they influence them in turn ; and changes in these conditions are largely responsible not only for the more or less continuous process of reinterpretation of the ideologies of political parties and movements , but also for the more profound revision of theoretical conceptions . |
| 17 | It is an expedition only for the very fit : weaklings and novices must expect to perish . |
| 18 | However , we have been able to solve the equation only for the very simplest system , the hydrogen atom , consisting of one proton and one electron . |
| 19 | I must emphasise that this is only for the very good golfer . |
| 20 | As mentioned earlier , an offeror should announce an offer only after the most careful and responsible consideration . |
| 21 | It is only after the very last entity has been displayed that any quantitative evaluation can be performed . |
| 22 | That they were also impossible as a basis for the next and crucial stage of the Industrial Revolution could have entered into the judgment only of the most prescient . |
| 23 | It left him with a two-over par total of 290 , ahead only of the equally out-of-form Jose-Maria Olazabal ( 292 ) of the five Europeans who had survived the 36-hole cut . |
| 24 | Like most of Europe 's Social Democrats at that time , the party saw nationalism as a declining issue , characteristic only of the economically more backward areas . |
| 25 | The real measure of the show 's international appeal is its inclusion not only of the more traditional Italian names , but also a remarkable array of French ( Prud'hon , Fragonard , Natoire ) and Northern drawings , ( notably Goltzius and Spranger ) and nineteenth-century artists including Adolph Menzel and , too little known outside their native Italy , Bartolomeo Pinelli , Vincenzo Gemito and Vincenzo Camuccini . |
| 26 | It is not necessary always to think of the interview as only of the highly standardized sample type . |
| 27 | But they should be licensed and licences should be granted only under the most stringent conditions . |
| 28 | Hence , the propositions of this section apply only under the highly restrictive conditions now enumerated . |
| 29 | By definition , they are concerned only with the here and now . |
| 30 | Churchill , Beveridge and their colleagues recognized that insurance dealt only with the most tractable tip of the unemployment problem . |