Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] it be only " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you really like the place , make an offer — but make clear that it 's only ‘ subject to survey and contract ’ . |
| 2 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 3 | After Arthur read that paralysing codswallop , the piece of business became impossible and it was only after Fred rang him up and ribbed him about it that he could manage to get the thing off his head again . |
| 4 | It seemed incredible that it was only just a week since she 'd arrived , Luce thought . |
| 5 | Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories . |
| 6 | Cathy had been assigned a tutor , she used to take her daughter along to a little school ( not her previous school ) and have lessons there in the staffroom : I never liked school before but I liked this as it was only half-past nine till half-past twelve so it was n't a long day and I could take Rebecca with me . |
| 7 | At the top of the neighbouring allotment was the communal pump , a very simple affair that never ran dry as it was only just above the level of the River Avon , flowing some two hundred yards away . |
| 8 | Whilst it would be an exaggeration to say that the part played by remains true that it is only in an exceptional case that a Government Bill fails to pass into law in substantially the form in which it entered Parliament . |