Example sentences of "[subord] it [is] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it 's only really because |
| 2 | ‘ Their warehouses hare full of unsaleable stock , so it 's only too easy to get cheap books ; and a member of the public does n't know the difference between a previous edition of , say , the Oxford Companion to English Literature selling for £5 and the new edition selling for £25 — especially since the new edition is n't always better . ’ |
| 3 | Those who are newly bereaved and naturally dread the loneliness of returning to an empty house should be visited frequently in their own homes ; and when you are able to persuade them to get out of their own four walls as much as possible for fresh air and exercise and to meet others and visit relatives , it can be a considerable help if you can bring them home and go in with them for a cup of tea or a chat , even if it is only just for a quarter of an hour . |
| 4 | While people may even find themselves avoiding others who would be understanding , precisely because their concern may threaten to breach fragile defences and bring on the ‘ crack-up ’ that feels as if it is only just being fended off , as it is . |
| 5 | I 'd say go , even if it 's only just the once . |
| 6 | But if it 's only mildly wicked we would feel it a pity to be too legalistic . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't really see that there 's such a dividing line , because I think if you 're a housewife and you have a beautiful milk jug , which is perhaps very simple but has lovely lines to it , I think even if it 's only subconsciously you get more pleasure out of using that than you would a rather cracked , grubby , plastic jug . |
| 8 | but what I find so interesting is because people talk nowadays as if it 's only recently women have had jobs erm |
| 9 | Well , erm a lot of your tax relief under the MIRAS system , which you 're aware it gives you tax relief at source up to thirty thousand , has been absorbed up here , that 's where most of your tax relief is , so down here the tax relief on the capital element is nil , and of , it 's only , if it 's only about three thousand outstanding , I might say , well , get rid of that , you know , just , just erm er cash it , and then you 've got the l you c can forget your mortgage commitment altogether . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The distinction between sheep of hardy and other breeds should be abolished because it is only very loosely related to degree of handicap . |
| 12 | This emphasis is partly due to the background of the researchers involved ( many are human geographers and sociologists ) and partly because it is only really since the Second World War that major hazards have been monitored systematically , culminating , of course , in the last decade or so in the use of satellite technology . |
| 13 | And then do n't , you no need take her home you see , because it 's only just picking her up on a Tuesday . |
| 14 | Second , he feels guilty about how he treated you and wants to make amends — something people often do when they find happiness because it 's only then that they can afford to consider how much they have hurt others . |
| 15 | And , well Fred opens them himself you see because it 's only now and again he has them . |
| 16 | About all one can say is that while it is only too easy to make a weak material ( or indeed a material of no strength at all ) from strong chemical bonds , it is not possible to make very strong materials from weak bonds . |
| 17 | Most are working in central London , some also in one or two other major cities , since it is only there that the sort of prestigious hotels and banqueting suites which can mount an almost unbroken series of events are to be found . |
| 18 | A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them . |
| 19 | A LIFESPAN Process account can be disusered ( as in the example shown in Figure 1.2 ) since it is only ever used for starting the ( detached ) LIFESPAN Process(es) . |
| 20 | The most common is the all-too-familiar cystitis — the bladder could be inflamed and JoJo may think it needs emptying even when it is only partly full , with the result that she could be effectively ‘ caught short ’ . |
| 21 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 22 | As it is only about two or three feet wide , this is a little demanding on the imagination . |
| 23 | The dining room , with its pale marbled walls and black and glass furniture , has survived from its first overhaul as it is only really used for entertaining and for Ella 's piano practice . |
| 24 | And would it look odd if you had a tent or wigwam type of frame that could be covered in with a protective polythene and well ven ventilated at the , at the base and as it 's only really to give protection , you know , January , late April sort of thing , round about that period , er to prevent the fungal peach leaf curl and fungal spores being splashed on the branches wherein . |
| 25 | The Created God can have existence only in the minds of men , for it is only there that things without material substance can exist , and are therefore spiritual . |
| 26 | The problem for beginning readers is to decode the visual symbols into a form which can be recognised , for it is only then that they will be able to bring previously gained knowledge to bear upon the meaning of the text . |
| 27 | For it is only now that reason returns to me : she 's putting it on , you know she can do it . |