Example sentences of "have [verb] [conj] it be only " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recent research has shown that it is only some carbohydrate foods which cause this problem , not all of them . |
| 2 | The Japanese historian Irokawa Daikichi has suggested that it was only when the economic plight of the early 1880s failed to respond to this conventional morality that some of the lower classes were forced to break out of their limitations in the violent incidents of the time . |
| 3 | She was enjoying herself so much that she stayed on the floor longer than she should have done and it was only when she saw Mrs Freer making furious faces at her from the doorway that she turned and glided back . |
| 4 | rubbish should have gone and it was only the |
| 5 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 6 | The Chinese have insisted that it is only a matter between sovereign powers but British officials insist that local legislators have the final word on any Sino-British deal . |