Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it is only specific individual assets of a business that are transferred , a prohibition on competition on the vendor will not usually be required to protect the purchaser and is likely to infringe Article 85(1) . |
| 2 | Lastly , an obligation of confidence , at least where it is only equitable , will come to an end when public policy will no longer be served by upholding it . |
| 3 | It is not necessary for the building society to be joined as a party to a registered land transfer where it is only receiving the benefit of a covenant to observe and perform the terms of the mortgage by the wife ( and not releasing the husband ) because it can enforce the covenant without being a party ( Chelsea and Walham Green Building Society v Armstrong [ 1951 ] Ch 853 ) . |
| 4 | Fond memories of Jerry Lee Lewis who blew up a storm of indignation in the 1950s , not to mention Presley , whose subversive pelvis was banned from television in some American states where it was only permitted to film Elvis-the-Pelvis from the waist upwards . |
| 5 | It was also recognised that there were patients whose language disorder affected only the processing of written language ( reading and writing ) and others where it was only the processing of spoken language that was impaired . |
| 6 | Although it is only in its second season , the garden looks mature , overflowing with over 50 herbs arranged in four beds , complete with a central bird bath . |
| 7 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 8 | All these creatures seem very much at home in Vic 's garden , although it is only two miles from the city centre . |
| 9 | Although it is only a brief summary , it contains all the relevant information necessary to follow the ten steps — plus a measure of red-herrings . |
| 10 | She listed 56 ( see page 111 ) , although it is only fair to record that the 56th read : " Have nervous breakdown — client does n't like film . " |
| 11 | Although it is only necessary to show an element of bounty to come within these provisions now , this case is important and taxpayers should bear it in mind when they are carrying out any reorganisation of share capital . |
| 12 | Although it 's only two years since they began acquiring the magazines , there are now so many that the bulk must remain in storage . |
| 13 | This walk , by the way , although it 's only short , does involve a bit of scrambling which , though hardly dangerous , does need a fair amount of agility — fit grannies and grandads would make it , overweight VAT inspectors with beer bellies would n't . |
| 14 | Although it 's only really because |
| 15 | because although it 's only a small concern she 's gon na have her own stuff to do . |
| 16 | Ages seemed to pass although it was only moments , until a pollen-laden grass flower tickled his nose and he sneezed himself back to life again . |
| 17 | In one very vivid dream , I remember being shot in the lower back and although it was only a dream we had to swim under a sort of submerged wall in order to escape . ’ |
| 18 | By the time that Israel became part of the Roman empire , the idea was already widespread among the various religious sects that the ‘ End of the World ’ was at hand , although it was only for the Essenes of Qumran that this belief assumed a definite form ; that , whereas the First Judgement at the time of Noah had been destruction by water , the Last Judgement would be destruction by fire . |
| 19 | In pre-European times , surfing was practised from Easter Island to New Guinea , in Micronesia and Melanesia , although it was only in Hawaii and Tahiti , whence the Hawaiians had come , that riders stood up on their boards . |
| 20 | Although it was only half-full it was heavy . |
| 21 | They sat there for what seemed like hours , although it was only minutes . |
| 22 | Although it was only ten miles direct , it would be fully half that again by the route planned ; and they would be able to go only very slowly , in the darkness . |
| 23 | The big worry for Town is that Arsenal 's goal came from the prolific Ian Wright , his 23rd this season , although it was only The Gunners ' fourth goal in 15 games . |
| 24 | For Mrs Whitehouse , the publication of Honest to God , although it was only one — albeit significant — event , was a key moment in the emergence of what both she and John Robinson described as ‘ the new morality ’ . |
| 25 | Although it was only ten in the morning , the temperature sat in the high seventies . |
| 26 | She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything . |
| 27 | Just such a device was available in the shape of AM Varityper 's VT600 , a PostScript 600dpi plain paper page printer , although it was only through reading a year 's worth of back copies of the Desktop Publisher newsletter that Tony Gamble ever found out about it . |
| 28 | It arrived about two months after the news about my father , although it was only much later that I was told what was in it . |
| 29 | Although it was only about two shillings I think it was a lot of money for her you know . |
| 30 | The origins of British railway unions go back more than a century ( Bagwell 1963 ; McKillop 1950 ; Murphy 1980 ) , although it was only in 1911 that the unions won recognition , with the help of government intervention , from the railway companies . |