Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it is only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 2 | ‘ You are an apprentice historian and therefore should know that it is only in this century that this attempt to sanitise death has stricken our race . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope you realise that it is only on account of the entreaty of Taheb that I see you , Huy , ’ were his words of greeting . |
| 4 | Beattie concludes that it is only during the hesitant phase of a speech cycle that the clause is a major unit of speech planning . |
| 5 | Piaget and Klein also show that it is only through the intrinsically dynamic relationship between the infant and its environment that the subject is able to become itself . |
| 6 | Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) . |
| 7 | Having firmly rejected this device for the other adjective constructions discussed so far ( not excluding the postnominal attributive ) , we consider that it is only in Sections 4.5 onwards that we have encountered a construction where the adjective can reasonably be treated in this way . |
| 8 | However they put aside their competitiveness ( the Caledonian and Balmoral in Edinburgh , for example , are fighting for exactly the same guests ) because they know that it is only by working together , as one body , that they will attract visitors to Scotland in the first place . |
| 9 | We tend to believe that it is only in Iran that people who commit adultery are stoned , whereas in Europe it 's the other way round . |
| 10 | I believe that it is only by going back to the basics and debating questions such as ‘ What do you want from the audit process ? |
| 11 | Kelly ( 1955 ) notes that it is only by being attuned to repetitive aspects in the monotonous flow of life that sense can be made of the world . |
| 12 | One is , nevertheless , bound to suppose that it is only in extreme conditions that people can be expected to volunteer the suppression of individuality to the extent that the more extreme forms of co-operative require : only , that is in short , where a life of one 's own would not be supportable . |
| 13 | AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend has correctly identified that it is only by constantly improving the competitiveness of British industry that jobs will be created . |
| 15 | Somewhat like Storr he suggests that it is only in overcoming such psychopathology that effective creating can occur — an uncontroversial conclusion but one that scarcely illuminates our understanding . |
| 16 | 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 . |