Sentence examples for procedure but only from inspiring English sources

Since 1995, when the federal government approved laser eye surgery for correcting nearsightedness, the process has become a routine out patient procedure, but only for those who can afford to pay several thousand dollars for it.

The monitoring of reinforced concrete (RC) structures through measuring local strains is a valuable procedure but only a limited number of alternative technologies are currently available, mainly including electric strain gages and fibre optic sensors.

In contrast to classical radial return mapping methods for computational plasticity, the plastic constraints are not required to hold at every iterate in the nonlinear solution procedure, but only at convergence.

The fragmentation of a distinct chemical compound is not a unique and objective procedure but only an adequate approximation driven by experience and chemical intuition.

In the ATRAS scheme, the RoF AP does not transmit DATA or RTS frames using the backoff procedure but only transmits DATA frames using the ATRAS scheme.

All patients had X-rays and planar bone scan to compare with (from the combined SPECT/CT procedure), but only half of our study population had MRI.

Infants with major birth defects accounted for 16.3% of deaths and 18.9% of major surgical procedures but only for 2.9% of total hospital days.

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs reduce overall and cardiovascular mortality in patients with a history of acute coronary events or revascularization procedures, but only 30% of patients enroll in CR and attrition rates reach up to 60%.

If the actual decisions do not need to be the result of democratic procedures but only to be the same as those that would result, from such procedures how do we know which decisions those are without actually going through the deliberative exercise?

All of the women answered "Yes" to the question "Have you ever in your life had receptive anal sex (your partner's penis in your butt/anus)" during the initial screening procedures, but only 73%% reported having receptive penile-anal intercourse on the brief questionnaire administered immediately prior to the focus groups.

This was 14.2% for procedure II, but only 3.5% for procedure III (p < 0.0001 for procedure III as compared to procedures I and II).