Example sentences of "it be only [prep] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 2 | I am Cambridged out , and it is only by getting away from the familiar that anything good will ( I hope ) emerge . |
| 3 | However they put aside their competitiveness ( the Caledonian and Balmoral in Edinburgh , for example , are fighting for exactly the same guests ) because they know that it is only by working together , as one body , that they will attract visitors to Scotland in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ It is only by going too far sometimes , ’ he said , ‘ that we know we have gone far enough . ’ |
| 5 | It was only on glancing again at his watch at three minutes to one and wondering what time the Substitute would turn up that he realized that the Substitute was the reason why . |
| 6 | It was only by issuing rather unconvincing threats of his disapproval that Peggy could keep the girl in line . |
| 7 | In Couturier v. Hastie , the House of Lords said it was a matter of construing the contract and it was only after doing so , that their Lordships held that the buyer had not agreed to buy a spes and that the contract was therefore void . |