Example sentences of "itself is only " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sign — and it is important to remember that Christmas itself is only a sign . |
| 2 | Kitzbuhel itself is only 20 minutes away by rail or bus . |
| 3 | Bakhtin himself extends his concern and his enthusiasm from the novel — a particular form existing within a definite historical period — to a more extensive novelistic discourse of which the novel itself is only one historical development , a development which , in its complexity and ‘ polyglossia ’ , most fully realizes the potential of the genre . |
| 4 | This is , of course , in a situation where there is a ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ , where the proletariat itself is only a small minority of the whole population . |
| 5 | With his law of primitive socialist accumulation Preobrazhensky saw it essentially as being conditions which were imposed upon the Soviet economy ; either the state sector will grow or it will succumb to the private sector , but the ‘ law ’ itself is only manifested by a series of conditions which were conscious acts upon the part of the Soviet state , since it involved plans and planning . |
| 6 | York 's a historic city of some hundred and four thousand people , covering some two thousand nine hundred hectares , but that city itself is only part of the settlement that I think we would all regard as as York itself , that covers a larger population of some a hundred and thirty five thousand people , er contained er within the York outer ring road , and referenced to the the map submitted with my H One submission , and also the greenbelt plan which we 've we 've just put up on the board there , er will show you the the broader extent of the urban area . |
| 7 | A licence coupled with an interest , e.g. a profit , is irrevocable , as although the licence itself is only a right in personam , it confers a right in rem to do something once an entry has been made . |
| 8 | And the car tax itself is only raised by a paltry £10 . ’ |