Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 2 | At the same time the weight of the gold coin declined , the scale of its production was greatly reduced , and , at the end of the period , it too was debased so that it was only 70–80 per cent pure . |
| 3 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 4 | So that it was only Creggan who heard old Minch 's final words : ‘ Help lies beyond the power of our wings and strength , it goes where our spirit goes . |
| 5 | So that it was only the man Jesus who died . |
| 6 | Matisse , as has been seen , had for the past years been turning to the work of Cézanne for inspiration , and by 1906 Derain was looking at his work also , so that it was only natural that Braque , who had discovered Fauvism through them , should once again follow their example , although he was already well acquainted with Cézanne 's work . |
| 7 | The throw took her by surprise , was sharp and strong , and went a little wide , so that it was only the experience of three younger brothers that gave her quick enough reflexes to shoot an arm out sideways to take the catch . |
| 8 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 9 | This method of examination involves cutting a very thin slice from the object , which is fixed to a microscope slide and ground down until it is only 0.02mm thick . |
| 10 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 11 | Well that would be up to the colleges , if they 're commercially astute they 'll say right yeah twenty-five quid for that , in fact it would be a lot less because it 's only for three months |
| 12 | The reader will probably reply that the question is quite otiose because it is obvious that , as Freud himself pointed out , the oral region is of first significance in a new-born baby 's life , the anal zone is significant later , especially with the coming of toilet-training , and the phallic period is last merely because it is only later that increasing awareness of the genitals and the ability to manipulate them and perceive the persons of the parents causes Oedipal phenomena ( which are synonymous with the phallic period ) to come to the fore . |
| 13 | Pure logic is only a small part of the thinking we habitually do , and can only be so because it is only appropriate for certain limited activities . |
| 14 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 15 | It had been bad enough when it was only Papa and the newspapers . |
| 16 | Please pray that the German people will buy , read and live by the Bible ( not that it is only Germans who need to do that ! ) . |
| 17 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 18 | The resort centre is about half a mile away and it 's only a 5 minute walk to the sandy beach . |
| 19 | Some of the barriers I 've built up are going to be chipped away and it 's only going to take one incident and I 'm going to be stuffed . |
| 20 | The news that Amstrad Plc had a hot new personal communicator product on the way should have been in the market for a couple of weeks now — we reported it on March 1 ( CI No 2,117 ) but these things take time to filter through and it was only on Tuesday that the shares really began to respond , putting on 3.75 pence ; they added another 3.5 pence to 34.75 pence yesterday morning . |
| 21 | First , a small fragment of material is removed and stuck to a glass slide ; it is then carefully ground away until it is only 0.03 mm thick . |
| 22 | Parts of the sequence exist elsewhere but it is only in Bratislava that you find the complete set . |
| 23 | On this side , no that 's not because it 's only Yeah there is |
| 24 | Doyle let the little group of people walk on until it was only about two hundred metres away . |
| 25 | Seriously , though , shortcuts rarely work properly and it 's only half an hour 's work to get the job done . |
| 26 | He had known at once that it was only vicious rumour . |
| 27 | home but it was only a few yards anyway from . |
| 28 | ‘ But they do n't have to finish their meal too quickly because it is only a short walk back to the Commons . |
| 29 | I discovered later that it was only the orange squash that had been spiked with gin . |
| 30 | But like , I got the mirror down and like , I looked at it and whether it was the light or whether it just had n't come up cos it was only like , a few seconds afterwards |