Example sentences of "[subord] this [is] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite acceptable to ask to sample before you buy , although this is only possible if you are purchasing over the counter . |
| 2 | Level of skill is usually assessed in terms of extent of formal training although this is only one of the relevant factors : others include length of experience and degree of integration . |
| 3 | The first of these screens is a conversion chart showing catch length and weight , although this is only an approximation . |
| 4 | Even if this is only one of possible readings , these stanzas and the poem as a whole surely represent an extraordinarily searching and painful exploration of what may be involved , for people of today , in the Virgilian pietas . |
| 5 | They all do exams , even if this is only the one in childcare . |
| 6 | Now Regan 's response to this , exemplified in the imbecile 's fear , would be to insist that since ordinary usage almost seems to demand that we describe that unfortunate as recognising a snake , and because this is only possible of someone who holds the necessary beliefs , then he must hold them somehow and somewhere . |
| 7 | We do n't have any choice about that because this is only a single-engined job , so we 're not allowed to fly over built-up areas . |
| 8 | Ivica Racan , a ( Croatian ) member of the party presidium , said that this meant affirming the freedom of a citizen 's political association , keeping self-management strategic to socialist development , but did not mean that political pluralism " should be reduced simply to the question of a multiparty system , because this is only one of the possible forms of political pluralism " . |
| 9 | Such comparisons suggest a fixed set of symbols or rules which operate in a fixed way , whereas this is only partially true of language . |
| 10 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 11 | whether this is only a temporary down-turn which may in the end not necessitate redundancies on the scale now envisaged ; |
| 12 | As explained above , the main feature of these proposals is that the UK should adopt an Article 85-type law on restrictive trade practices , and an Article 86-type law on abuse of market power ( though this is only one of the options put forward ) , while retaining the present UK arrangements for mergers policy . |
| 13 | Lower capacity utilization was also important for explaining the fall in the profit rate in the United States , though this is only a partial explanation . |
| 14 | Then , as long as this is only a mental exercise , try moving the concocted cliff atop an apartment building . |
| 15 | This should not include VAT , as this is only payable when the repairs are carried out by a contractor/repairer who is VAT registered . |
| 16 | There is little tactical advantage in commissioning and serving reports late in the case , as this is only likely to delay the outcome . |