Example sentences of "only at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her other Scottish attendants were quickly despatched home ; only at the insistence of Mary of Guise was her daughter 's governess , Lady Fleming , allowed to remain — until 1551 , when a brief affair with the French king ensured her disgrace and expulsion . |
| 2 | In Leninakan , Armenia 's second-largest city until the earthquake struck , half the new buildings are still only at the foundation stage . |
| 3 | Tawney , on the occasion of the celebrations of the District 's twenty-first anniversary in June 1934 , perceptively recognised that the District ‘ … was only at the beginning of their task … ’ but was perhaps a little wide of the mark in claiming that the ‘ … |
| 4 | We are only at the beginning of a change which became more conspicuous later . |
| 5 | Under the Bush administration , State Department officials met the delegates only at the beginning and end of each round . |
| 6 | Daiwa suspected that something was amiss only at the beginning of this year , when it uncovered evidence that attempts had been made to forge security depositary receipts . |
| 7 | The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | Some of these materials will be used for periods of presentation and exposition , not only at the beginning but at helpful points during the programme . |
| 9 | Andropov set out his general approach to such matters in a speech in the spring of 1983 in which he emphasised that the Soviet Union was ‘ only at the beginning ’ of the long historical stage of developed socialism ; there must be no exaggeration of the country 's closeness to communism , and no attempt to minimise the difficulties that lay ahead Discussing the party programme more directly , Andropov told the Central Committee in June 1983 that many of its directives had in fact been realised : links between citizens and deputies , for instance , had become closer , and national discussion of major items of legislation had become a well-established practice . |
| 10 | It should be remembered that we are only at the beginning and there are many varying factors yet to be confronted ; how much energy is used when recycling paper compared to using new stock ? |
| 11 | We tend to look only at the beginning and end of a decision . |
| 12 | It is very easy to concentrate on the intonation only at the beginning , and then get slack and start imposing your mother tongue intonation on the new language . |
| 13 | ‘ As yet , ’ said the Inspector imperturbably , ‘ we 're only at the beginning of our enquiries . |
| 14 | Finally , we realise that we are only at the beginning of what may prove to be one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century . |
| 15 | It was only at the beginning of July that she was again taken ill . |
| 16 | These characteristics are the use of large columns to divide nave and choir from the aisles ; piers are used only at the crossing and then have slender clustered shafts . |
| 17 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
| 18 | Fael-Inis continued to play without ceasing , and the music spun and shivered and soothed , and across the slanting features there was a look of the utmost concentration now , for it is only at the invitation of a Mortal that the Lad of the Skins can enter a house and do his terrible work . |
| 19 | Only at the University of Dorpat , in Estonia , did the intellectual atmosphere change rather slowly . |
| 20 | Last week , the Estonian Parliament compromised on both fronts — but only at the price of jeopardising the alliance between nationalists and the republic 's Communist Party which has hitherto allowed Estonia so nimbly to sidestep a decisive confrontation with Moscow . |
| 21 | Capitalist society … can maintain a relative equilibrium only at the price of painful crises ; the adaptation of the various parts of the social organism to each other and to the whole can be achieved only with a colossal waste of energy . |
| 22 | The ILP did so only at the price of appearing to abstain altogether from the politics of what almost everyone else took to be the real world . |
| 23 | If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction . |
| 24 | Some 60 out of 90 antarctic genera are crustose , producing a flat thallus closely appressed to the substrate ; only 17 genera are foliose ( i.e. with a divided , leaf-like thallus ) , and only 15 genera , occupying the least exposed positions , are fructicose — short , cylindrical , erect or recumbent , and attached only at the base ( Dodge , 1973 ) . |
| 25 | Moreover these inadequate wages were often months in arrears , and were paid , at least in the earlier years of the century , not in cash but in tickets which could be cashed only at the Navy Office in London . |
| 26 | Two respondents indicated that all ordinands in their college have their singing voices assessed during their training , and then receive instruction as necessary , Others offer training in singing only at the request of the ordinand , or the tutor or parish placement supervisor . |
| 27 | Clearly this function is continuous everywhere and fails to be differentiable only at the origin ( i.e. x = 0 is the point at which there is no tangent ) . |
| 28 | The prince said he would do so only at the head of an army of 60,000 men ; the parlement pronounced him a contumacious vassal , and sentenced him to loss of the duchy . |
| 29 | This version was more conical , losing its basic smoothness only at the head section above the louvres , where sat the eye and sensor apparatus fixed on a rotating turret . |
| 30 | Cross-country skiing is a sliding walk , with feet fixed to the skis only at the toe . |