Example sentences of "only [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bewick 's engraving and printing of the ‘ Fables ’ ensured a mass audience already visually primed to animal illustration in graphic style not only through classificatory catalogues but also through the more inventive mediums of children 's literature illustrations and satirical cartoons in 19th century media publications . |
| 2 | Studies of social mobility , of schools , of work , of leisure , of youth culture , even of the family , either ignored women or saw them only through male eyes . |
| 3 | Only through such approaches to training needs can the huge requirement for continuing education and training can be met . |
| 4 | Only through such discussions can we begin to probe the ways in which a satisfying and total response gradually emerges . |
| 5 | It is , to date , the most organised critical practice to insist that our understanding of Renaissance culture can be arrived at only through complex negotiations of both text and history . |
| 6 | In BR , Robbins ( 1986 ) found that vacancies for the entry grade to the train drivers ' ( ‘ footplate ’ ) line of promotion were still advertised only through internal channels . |
| 7 | Tactical understanding comes only through regular bouts of fighting , in which all the techniques used are directed toward the scoring of maximum points . |
| 8 | Even facts of observation need interpreting before they can be counted on , and any facts about underlying mechanisms or structures are ‘ visible ’ only through theoretical spectacles . |
| 9 | IBM sells RS/6000s only through third parties in Denmark , where 60% of the top 500 companies are committed IBM sites . |
| 10 | There has always been a temptation to regard the successive recommitments to the central political purpose of the Community as being confined to the small print , to be accepted only through gritted teeth and only on our terms . |
| 11 | Yet it is only through particular instances of truth that we can come to understand what it might mean to speak of absolute Truth . |
| 12 | Such a theory would have to be based on the equations of fluid motion instead of those of the dynamics of molecules interacting only through elastic collisions . |
| 13 | In other words , they are unified only through ideological constructs ( 'scripts ' in the terms of Gagnon and Simon ) , and it is these that constitute ‘ sexuality ’ . |
| 14 | Prices continued to be fixed centrally only for postal services , electricity and gas supplies , water rates and water transport , and radio and television licences . |
| 15 | It is used not only for inner lines but often also to strengthen contours . |
| 16 | Gibbons et al. ( 1978a ) demonstrated that treatment by social workers using a standardized task-centred approach ( Reid and Epstein 1972 ) was more effective in terms of improving patients ' social problems than traditional care recommended by psychiatrists , although only for female patients ( Gibbons 1979 ) . |
| 17 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 18 | Libraries are not used for general scanning-type purposes but only for specific tasks . |
| 19 | In America the organisational style is geared to mobilize people only for specific projects . |
| 20 | Today many decisions are taken in private party meetings , only very occasionally with officers in attendance and then normally only for specific items . |
| 21 | The invention of back stairs and corridors rendered the family rooms increasingly private , since they now needed to be entered only for specific purposes , and no longer functioned as thoroughfares . |
| 22 | ERA thus offers the possibility of real-time quality control not only for industrial pollutants but also for pathogens such as E.coli or parasites like cryptosporidium in drinking water . |
| 23 | For instance the names of residents were used not only for personal records , but also for certain financial accounts , and for day-to-day tasks such as preparing menus and issuing medicines ; the statistics about the dependency levels of residents were periodically collated from individual records and passed to the headquarters , and so on . |
| 24 | ‘ Only for future presidents or prime ministers . |
| 25 | This information is essential not only for good careers education but also to assist schools in providing an accurate picture of the local economic and business situation for their students . |
| 26 | Only for such beings is ignorance not bliss . |
| 27 | He would try to arrange a site meeting with the police to see what could be done to improve safety not only for other motorists but for pedestrians . |
| 28 | The more autonomous a field is , the greater the extent to which production in that field is only for other producers and not for consumers in the social field ( or field of power ) . |
| 29 | Commissions and Collaborations makes a good case for the BBC 's role as a patron of the arts — not only for respectable institutions like the Proms , but works that may be difficult , controversial , fey , or just not very successful . |
| 30 | However in Britain it seems extremely unlikely that the courts will adopt a similar approach especially given the legislature 's prior decision in the CSA 1985 to opt only for criminal measures . |