Example sentences of "[be] only [adj] [to-vb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your first Equity card will be a provisional one ; to become a full member you need to have worked for at least 30 weeks , not necessarily consecutively , Nevertheless , it 's only realistic to assume that you may face longish periods of unemployment and to be prepared to deal with this constructively . |
| 2 | To measure the intensity of his hatred , it is only necessary to add that he wrote these words when it was public knowledge that women and children by the thousands were among the population of those camps . |
| 3 | After a year in which the Treasury 's forecasting failures ( notably that very large trade deficit ) have been rather obvious , it is only fair to recall that it did presciently point out just about every awkward little detail of the poll tax , from its automatic upward impact on inflation to the folly of providing local authorities with a golden opportunity to raise more tax while blaming the Government . |
| 4 | However , it is only fair to comment that he did place the lives of two of his most valuable NCOs in jeopardy as well as that of an officer whom he could ill afford to lose . |
| 5 | He was wrong , but it is only fair to add that we still do not know how all the specific external stimuli which induce cell differences arise . |
| 6 | The issue is far more complicated and it is only fair to note that we have not reached a stage of knowledge when we can easily say what explains the status of women among the different peoples of the world . |
| 7 | Although they do constitute a basis for a future development policy it is only realistic to recognise that they are , in some respects at least , contradictory to the conceptual framework of present policies and planning approaches . |
| 8 | Miranda sensed her family had come to the rescue , and she was only keen to show that she was striking out boldly , freestyle , not sinking . |
| 9 | In those days I was going , and was only intrigued to learn that it was Mespot or Iraq as it became . |