Example sentences of "only [prep] a last " in BNC.
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| 1 | If used strictly according to recommendations , chemical treatments have their place , if only as a last resort for serious threats . |
| 2 | In Ajdabiya , too , the police intervened in civil wrongs only as a last resort : occasionally , for example , disputes over water-rights occurred between lineages , even sections of lineages , and one or other party would try to enlist the support of the police . |
| 3 | Today it means in terms of a hierarchy of pedagogical responsibilities that the individual and the individual family have a primary role , which they carry out through contracting and engaging for specific purposes the services of ‘ free ’ organizations according to their private ideological orientation , and only as a last resort does the state intervene directly . |
| 4 | Depending on his assessment of the patient , the therapist may judge that he should be encouraged to use open access only as a last resort ; in other cases it has to be accepted that the patient and his relatives may benefit if they can use this facility often . |
| 5 | Lenders sought to take possession only as a last resort , but sometimes there was no alternative . |
| 6 | As has been indicated , such machinery is established , but it is intended to be used only as a last resort . |
| 7 | Use these only as a last resort , since it is better to stop moisture getting into the walls in the first place . |
| 8 | But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents . |
| 9 | In buildings of more than two storeys , wait for the fire brigade , and jump only as a last resort . |
| 10 | Attempt ‘ heroic ’ rescues only as a last resort . |
| 11 | Liberal theorists such as T. H. Green argued in the 1880s and 90s that poor social conditions hindered the desirable growth of moral and communal responsibility among the poor , but Green also looked to improvement from increased voluntary exercise of responsibility and regarded state intervention only as a last resort . |
| 12 | Successive governments have stressed that imprisonment should be used only as a last resort yet , as we have seen , its use increased during the 1980s . |
| 13 | Descriptions based on comparison of a sound in the new language with a sound in the student 's own language should be used only as a last resort , since dialect differences in languages made such descriptions confusing and often valueless . |
| 14 | The declaration included a decision that recourse to nuclear weapons should be considered only as a last resort ; the meeting also looked forward to the prospect of a reduction in the armed forces of a united Germany , and issued an invitation to the Warsaw Pact to sign a joint declaration with NATO on non-aggression . |
| 15 | A firearm is to be used only as a last resort . |
| 16 | It means that when pesticides are used , and it is only as a last resort , then the most environmentally friendly are chosen . |