Example sentences of "only [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that the beam deflectors and gun need sweep the beam only through a small angle . |
| 2 | She could see only through a watery mist and realized after a moment 's panic that she still had her reading glasses on . |
| 3 | It is only through a combined approach that school will be enabled to deliver all their programmes of study and make enough time to do more . |
| 4 | Although the aim of the Meditations was to stimulate an emotional response to the humanity of Christ in an act of affective piety , this was closely tied to a theological understanding that only through a loving penitential identification with His suffering could man also experience the transfiguring reality of the power of His Resurrection and life . |
| 5 | It was completely contrary to Lord Darlington 's natural tendencies to take such public stances as he came to do and I can say with conviction that his lordship was persuaded to overcome his more retiring side only through a deep sense of moral duty . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century , divorce was more or less impossible except for the very wealthy , initially only through a private Act of parliament . |
| 7 | It is only through a living faith in God that we can make a new start in our emotional life with each other . |
| 8 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 9 | The final decision as to what to count is actually the solution to the problem in hand ; this decision is taken only through a long series of complicated exploratory maneuvers ’ ( Labov 1972a : 82 ) . |
| 10 | On the contrary , it is only through a phenomenological clarification of the structure of experiences that the logical properties of such sentences can be made fully transparent . |
| 11 | He writes : ‘ No knowledgeable reading researcher disputes the fact that a higher level of national literacy will come only through a higher level of nationally shared information . ’ |
| 12 | It is only through a continuous , open exchange of views and experience that libraries will make the optimum use of the varied powerful electronic media opportunities that will characterise information options of the 1990s . |
| 13 | The relevant factors to consider in investment appraisal are likely to be different for each product and can be determined only through a thorough understanding of the company 's and industry 's actual and specific situation . |
| 14 | You find a parallel world that knows great beauty but can speak only through a tiny box of plastic and tin . |
| 15 | The break with this structure of belonging can be announced only through a certain organisation , a certain strategic arrangement which , within the field of metaphysical opposition , uses the strengths of the field to turn its own stratagems against it , producing a force of dislocation that spreads itself throughout the entire system , fissuring it in every direction and thoroughly delimiting it . |
| 16 | It will be shown , as was already briefly hinted earlier on , that the concept of objective order is inseparable from the idea of a plurality of witnessing selves — a " self " to be understood here in the sense of an experienced unity of biographical time , not as some kind of substantival entity — and the idea of error ; and that the latter ideas in turn can be clarified only through a careful study of the nature of language . |
| 17 | Under the existing law , these United Kingdom citizens can vote in British and EC parliamentary elections only through a complicated registration procedure , which allows voting only by proxy ( difficult to arrange and flouting the whole principle of a secret ballot ) . |
| 18 | At the least it is usually laid down that the amendment of the Constitution can take place only through a special process different from that by which the ordinary law is altered … |
| 19 | SCOTTISH Universities earned a draw against Welsh Universities at Peffermill , Edinburgh , yesterday , but only through a last-minute penalty by their full-back , Nick Mardon . |
| 20 | It can do so only through a constant turnover of individuals , whose sole purpose in being born is to reproduce and then die . |
| 21 | From there it was possible to get into the Cathedral only through a large , very heavy door directly opposite the one they had just come through . |
| 22 | The college doors were firmly closed , affording entry only through a smaller aperture , barely the size of a human being , cut into one of them . |
| 23 | It enables a person to achieve results which can be achieved only through an advance commitment to a whole series of actions , rather than by case to case examination . |
| 24 | The conduct of pedagogic research as I have defined it here presupposes attitudes and approaches to techniques of teaching which are developed only through an educational perspective and this in turn calls for a continuous programme of in-service support . |
| 25 | The great agricultural countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea can free themselves from patriarchal-feudal barbarism only through an agrarian revolution which will transform the peasants from their condition of serfdom or of subjection to the corvée into the free owners of the land — a revolution which will be exactly the same as the French revolution of 1789 in the countryside . |
| 26 | If the latter , can it be for any offence or only for a serious one , and is the offence in the problem sufficiently serious ? |
| 27 | Grimsbury Secondary Modern was on the other side of the town , and had to be accommodated — I believe it was , successfully — within the plans , but only for a transitional period . |
| 28 | The complexity was intended to last only for a transitional period . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom was an original party to the Convention but did not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the Commission and Court until 1965 and then only for a three-year term which , however , has so far been regularly renewed although not without some hesitancy prompted by the embarrassment and ignominy of being condemned by the Court on a number of occasions . |
| 30 | The University acts as a magnet not only for a wide range of able students from across the UK , but world-wide . |