Example sentences of "only [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Access to the bars and restaurant is currently achieved only through the hotel reception .
2 It is only through the work of Christ , through the impact on us of what he has done , that we can recognise him as divine and describe his person in divine terms .
3 The mountains of my youth were able to influence me only through the back window of a Ford Anglia , as we drove north for camping holidays in the rain .
4 Above all , he criticizes the ways in which Hegel reduces the diverse historical totality of a society to a single internal principle , so that history occurs only through the principle of contradiction in the dialectic .
5 It is only through the giving of form that something can be conceived of .
6 No totality has a necessary transcendence embodied within it ; as for the later Sartre , the course of historical change is open and will work only through the overdetermination of particular historical conjunctures .
7 Only through the sacrifice of a distant people had the Old Ones been vanquished , and order been returned to the universe .
8 Electron transfer to or from the node is only through the tunnel junction .
9 The lighting of this tiny interior is soft and gentle ; it comes only through the alabaster panes of the small windows .
10 Second , they support private industry not only through the provision of often subsidized inputs but also by providing guaranteed markets and assisting export endeavours .
11 It is only through the development of subject-object relations that the subject as such comes to be constituted .
12 Bearing in mind that ‘ Abba ’ is the opening word of the Lord 's Prayer in Aramaic , we could rightly say that only through the Spirit can we pray and live out that prayer .
13 It 's a temporary position , only three years , but there is obviously a desire on the part of the Embassy to integrate more , not only through the Accademia , but also for the purpose of contacts with English museums .
14 Power is defined only through the exercise of power .
15 AS a painter , Minton found outlet for his work not only through the Lefevre Gallery , but also through the London Group , the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions and other group shows .
16 In the Europe of medieval Christendom , kings laid claim to ‘ divine right ’ , but this right was conferred , ratified and legitimised only through the medium of the Church .
17 This gives great emphasis to the contention that it is only through the teaching of the children that there can be any progress towards a better world , and by which the complete breakdown of man 's fragile and very young civilisation can be avoided .
18 And notwithstanding the , the national minimum time rates were still negotiated and even today , erm our members er in general er helped themselves er not only through the field of increased productivity , but simply through strength of argument .
19 Proof that these ailments are essentially genetically determined can come only through the knowledge of the DNA sequences of these genes and their variants .
20 They know that only through the legislature of the nation can the battle for common justice be effectively fought and permanent well-being for the people obtained .
21 It is only through the influence of individuals who can set an example , and whom the masses recognize as their leaders , that they can be induced to perform the work and undergo the renunciations on which the existence of civilization depends .
22 Between 1322 and 1326 Audley was in prison , escaping execution only through the influence of his wife , Edward 's niece and the younger Despenser 's sister-in-law .
23 It might be suggested that it is only through the presence of the frame that we recognize the work of art for what it is , perceiving it and responding to it in the appropriate way .
24 It may be said at once that the earlier date , adopted by the the editor of the Istanbul edition of Asikpasazade and Danismend , may safely be ruled out , not only through the evidence of Molla Yegan 's involvement with Molla Gurani but also on the basis of an anecdote about him related in the tenth volume of the history by Kemalpasazade ( d. 940/1534 ) .
25 An integral part of the ‘ new frontier ’ activities — and therefore of the diversification of higher education — was the widespread development of academic and professional networks , not only through the validation machinery , but also through conferences and meetings devoted to curriculum and subject development .
26 The same argument applies if output has been increased only through the work-force taking fewer hours of leisure and putting in more hours of work .
27 The question of introducing nitrate protection zones got serious consideration only through the Nitrate Coordination Group in 1987 .
28 But it must not be thought that this domination is exercised only through the repression of dissent by police , though this certainly is important .
29 ‘ The use of bed and breakfast is still hovering close to record levels , ’ says Pawson , ‘ It is only through the boom in short-term leasing that boroughs have been able to avoid further increases in hotel placements . ’
30 The creation of poetic truth is achieved only through the destruction of what it seeks to represent .
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