Example sentences of "but this only " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this only restates the problem . |
| 2 | Some lots were damaged or dulled by their long immersion , but this only seemed to stimulate buyers . |
| 3 | The three figures looked quite awful ; someone had painted red , blue and green panties over the mid-sections of the figures perhaps to register objection to their nudity , but this only served to accentuate it . |
| 4 | It was extended to Deanshanger in 1888 , but this only lasted a year and then it was closed , as was the track down Creed Street to the Wolverton Goods Yard in 1893 . |
| 5 | Alexander sought the advice of numerous doctors and voice trainers who gave him different medicines or voice exercises , but this only brought him temporary relief . |
| 6 | But this only gives information at one point . |
| 7 | For a time he adopted a Stoical attitude to outface suffering , but this only brought on middle age prematurely . |
| 8 | Much of the film is subtitled , but this only serves to underline the alien nature of the cruel Siberian prison landscape . |
| 9 | But this only exemplifies a much more general unevenness in such welfare provision , affected by many external factors such as local authority politics . |
| 10 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 11 | But this only brought new difficulties . |
| 12 | But this only raises another question : how do we know a specific presence when we see one ? |
| 13 | In any case occupying them was of little interest to the Spanish authorities , for the islands the English settled had a much smaller area than Jamaica , the smallest and least developed of the Spanish islands ; later on , after it had been taken from the Spanish , Jamaica was the most important of the English Caribbean islands , but this only serves to show how small the English settlements were . |
| 14 | Forceful individuals might use the prestige of the patriarchate to wield political influence , but this only disguised the decline in the political weight of the Church . |
| 15 | It is true , as sociologists have recently pointed out , that psychoanalysis , or a variant of it , can become a managerial ideology , and may be used by staff in hospitals in order to control and out-manoeuvre patients , but this only makes sense as a piece of sociology if there is a possibility that in principle , if not in practice , there could be an uncorrupt ideology or ‘ science ’ . |
| 16 | But this only tells us the earliest date at which the book could have been written , not the latest date , which is of more interest . |
| 17 | But this only shows that we will not learn the whole meaning at once , at the beginning . |
| 18 | Its scarcity contributed to its status as the most universally accepted precious substance , but this only ensured that unceasing efforts were made to reduce scarcity by increasing supplies . |
| 19 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 20 | But this only confirmed the importance of AFHQ 's view , reflecting that of Churchill , that nothing should be done to provoke the Yugoslavs or exacerbate the tense situation until all military preparations had been made for full-scale action if necessary . |
| 21 | But this only gave us a taste of the variety of altered states we would encounter ahead . |
| 22 | He came forward speaking softly but this only made it worse , for she came at him again , this time so viciously that , thinking she might hurt herself , he backed away across the path towards the benches . |
| 23 | It did both , but this only drove home to her the grossness and subjectivity of her own temperament . |
| 24 | To be fair the answer was in the manual but this only highlights the fact that the various packages do n't automatically integrate themselves with the InteMate manager . |
| 25 | An economic boom developed in the spring of 1919 , but this only lasted a year and when the Bank Rate was hoisted to 7 per cent in April 1920 , the short-lived social reform programme was terminated . |
| 26 | You will tell me that the milkman has refused to continue deliveries , but this only adds weight to my earlier submission that the boat is not only unfit to live in but actually unsafe . " |
| 27 | Buying a disk from a library requires a payment to be made , but this only covers the distributors costs for the disk , advertising , business expenses , catalogues and the like , plus a reasonable profit for providing the service . |
| 28 | Studies in experimental animals have shown that in the rat , the fractional rate of protein synthesis in normal colonic mucosa is 62% per day , but this only contributes 2.6% of whole body protein synthesis . |
| 29 | But this only makes the headache seems worse and taking some form of exercise , like a walk , could see off the headache more quickly . |