Example sentences of "[conj] this [is] only [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For us the customers , it will mean higher fares and fewer services as unprofitable and social services are cut and this is only if we are left a train service at all . |
| 2 | As we shall discuss later , this is detectable through a screening technique known as amniocentesis , but this is only after the child has been conceived . |
| 3 | Information has to be taken in to the brain — often through the eyes but this is only because humans rely so much upon this sense . |
| 4 | He allows that , despite his claiming to have no consciousness of them , a court may punish a man for his drunken actions , but this is only because it can not be sure of distinguishing in the defendant 's plea ‘ what is real , what counterfeit ’ . |
| 5 | Several of the big bream waters I fish respond best to maggots , but this is only because maggots are continually thrown in by everyone who fishes there . |