Example sentences of "only because [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I withdraw the commendation that I gave the hon. Gentleman , but only because that is damaging his political career . |
| 2 | Er because er but only because that will oh , no i i er does , does the development of a rich peasant economy itself promote equality ? |
| 3 | In a game that went to the fifth day only because many hours were lost to the weather — the actual playing time was two and two-thirds days — one was left wondering what he might have done had he been fully fit . |
| 4 | It is important to stress that the differences between , on the one side , the personnel of the brigades , Scouts , and clubs and , on the other , the reformers , should not be exaggerated , if only because many of the latter were also active in one or more of the organizations . |
| 5 | Under war conditions , pacifist socialists were forced to rethink their attitude to the state , if only because many of them — not just conscientious objectors — suffered state repression . |
| 6 | It must , however , still bulk large in any examination of English urban life , not only because many of its characteristics were common to it and other towns , but also because they can be most fully studied there . |
| 7 | Differentiation theory does not predict that the magnitude of the acquired distinctiveness effect will depend on the similarity of X and Y. This theory might suppose that some form of discrimination training will be superior to none if only because such training will ensure that the subjects attend to relevant aspect of the situation . |
| 8 | This can be positively dangerous , if only because such practitioners may not recognise when a person is seriously ill . |
| 9 | The reason why the doing what a man is already bound to do is no consideration , is not only because such a consideration is in judgment of law of no value , but because a man can hardly be allowed to say that the prior legal obligation was not his determining motive . |
| 10 | Anyone who find , Hobbes 's view intellectually attractive will easily hit upon his thesis that someone who feels pity is simply moved by the self-centred thought ‘ that the like calamity may befall himself ’ , and that people are benevolent only because this produces self-satisfaction . |
| 11 | Moreover , the immediate benefits that the manager gains in a firm by lowering his ex post marginal product below the ex ante one are likely to be outweighed by the losses to the firm as a result , if only because this manager is a member of a team whose marginal products are interdependent . |
| 12 | I mention these ignorant reactions only because this book of photographs , bracketed by two brief essays , has caused me to succumb to Frida Kahlo 's strange gaze as her actual paintings , exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery some years ago , never did . |
| 13 | Again , we choose Oxford , but only because this is usually given as the place of publication for Oxford University Press books . |
| 14 | I got another erm magazine but only because this one had erm a special supplement all about the Alliance and Leicester explaining about mortgages and everything |
| 15 | The state has a monopoly over the use of coercion which is perceived to be legitimate only because those exercising such power have been democratically elected or derive their authority from a democratic legislature . |
| 16 | Some of the businesses were commercially successful , but only because those involved in owning and running them had invested life savings and borrowed substantially . |
| 17 | We do not use them only because those we have employed hitherto have been sufficient for our needs . ’ |
| 18 | Yet , whatever the short- and medium-term vicissitudes , it will almost certainly be completed , if only because any other course would be seen , however unreasonably , as a failure of political and diplomatic will on the part of this country . |
| 19 | Though Sir Derek must ultimately carry management responsibility for the mess ISC has got the company into , it would prove difficult to find someone better to sort it out if only because any newcomer would have to spend so long in getting to grips with the problems . |
| 20 | Now if there are changes , such as non-replacing teeth and non-dividing nerve cells , which make young animals more efficient , at the cost of condemning old animals to senescence , these changes will be favoured by natural selection , if only because most animals die of accidents anyway before they are old . |
| 21 | But perhaps the most impressive sight of all — if only because most brains , when faced with the sheer galactic enormity of A'Tuin , refuse to believe it — is the endless Rimfall , where the seas of the disc boil ceaselessly over the Edge into space . |
| 22 | Not only because both are unbiblical but because both misunderstand the way language is used when we grope to make sense of experiencing God . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , the flow-chart-cum-module model is much more open to interpretation in terms of localization ( if only because both are normally explained and displayed spatially ) , and therefore any explication of consciousness in their terms will tend to be a localized model , or what I referred to as a pinball-machine view of consciousness , one that seems to me a priori implausible . |
| 24 | Admittedly there were signs in the late 1980s that this pattern was breaking down , if only because both superpowers were becoming too weak economically to maintain their former roles , and because the model of a world divided by the October Revolution had little relation to the realities of the late 20th century . |
| 25 | Not until 1859 , when he was forty-eight years old , did he publish it and even then he was driven to do so only because another younger naturalist , Alfred Wallace , working in Southeast Asia , had formulated the same idea . |
| 26 | We limit our comments to these only because some sort of limitation is inevitable , and not because these are somehow the ‘ important ’ ones . |
| 27 | Not all streets can be treated in this way , if only because some traffic-generating land uses , sited within the area , would raise vehicle flows above acceptable levels for designation as rest and play streets . |
| 28 | It is important to discuss the various explanations briefly , if only because these surface in the press in a variety of forms . |
| 29 | The search for answers soon revealed that whole layers of management — perhaps as many as 6 out of a total of 14 — existed only because these questions had not been asked before . |
| 30 | Although the institute now has a staff of 28 at its Kensington headquarters , it copes with the collection only because few people know about the free public listening service that it offers . |