Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adv] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may believe that it is just because I am an extremely popular person . |
| 2 | You should also bear in mind that it is only once you have reached the end of the road in trying to obtain satisfaction through the Bank 's own complaints system that the Ombudsman will be able to formally consider your complaint . |
| 3 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 4 | Therefore , even if complex real-world situations can only be represented by complex models , the proponents of the object-oriented model argue that it is only as it need be to represent these situations on computers and to manipulate those representations for the purpose of processing queries . |
| 5 | However , I shall argue that it is only when they do point in the same direction that conditions are suitable for the development of intelligent beings who can ask the question : why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 6 | Basically that it 's there to be enjoyed and that it is only when you enjoy it that you play at your best — I always enjoy my cricket . |
| 7 | Everything I have learnt teaches me that it is only when you work with rather than against people that achievement and lasting success is possible . |
| 8 | The prevailing value system suggests that it is only if you have paid in full for what you receive that you fully deserve to have it . |
| 9 | Moore is also the man who holds fixedly to the belief that it is solely because he lives in a Labour borough that his pavements have broken and cracked paving-stones . |
| 10 | One of the nicest things about the house is that it is virtually as it was in 1906 , and with all its rooms of manageable size . |
| 11 | Pressing on OK shows the resulting bullet chart in the Slide Editor and it is here where you can change the bullet attributes if required |
| 12 | To understand the world one is in is to understand where it came from , and how it came ; and it is only because it is understood , or thought to be , that one can aspire to change it . |
| 13 | We must admit that it looks to us like a very good match , and it is only because she is marrying Steven that she has such an idealized view of what men and marriage are really like . |
| 14 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 15 | These older boards still sail perfectly well in lighter winds and it is only when you start improving to stronger wind conditions that the difference becomes apparent . |
| 16 | If it is even if you 've never heard of them before you know sort of funnium carbonate or something |
| 17 | ‘ Could you please look around your yard/station/siding to see if it is there before we have to cancel trains because of lack of locomotives . ’ |
| 18 | But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding . |
| 19 | But it is only when we see conversion as a miraculous , radical and gracious act of God , that there is an adequate basis and motivation for church growth . |
| 20 | Birds , fish and invertebrates provide some fascinating instances of the use of tools , but it is only when we come to the mammals , and particularly the primates , that tool using begins to approach anything like its full potential . |
| 21 | A domicile of origin is notoriously adhesive , but it is only if it is replaced with a foreign domicile of choice , and three further years elapse , that the individual will escape the UK inheritance tax net . |
| 22 | I do expect occasionally to have temper , because it is only when we are discussing the right subjects that temper will arise : if people lose their tempers it is because they are emotionally involved in the problem , and we are probably talking on a subject which needs to be aired . |
| 23 | The question arises as to whether this is the result of their having fallen into apathy out of fear of repression and a belief that it is not possible to make progress ; or whether it is precisely because they have been making progress through existing channels that the militant challenge has withered . |
| 24 | There is great skill in choosing a site and this must I teach you , though it is long since I made a site . ’ |
| 25 | All that science could say is : The universe is as it is now because it was as it was then . |