Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] be only " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it has also been suggested that since there is a dominance hierarchy among the females and only the subordinates do badly , it may be that it is only younger females that fare worse in big harems than they would if they were monogamous . |
| 2 | The implication of the evidence as a whole could be that it was only in the reign of Ecgfrith that Northumbrian overlordship embraced the Strathclyde Britons and the Scots . |
| 3 | One criticism is that they are only designed to accept one uplift tube . |
| 4 | The bottom line for liability is that you are only legally committed to an agreement made by an agent when : |
| 5 | The paradox is that it is only in our self-surrender that we are truly blessed . |
| 6 | The point is that it is only during face-to-face encounters that your behaviour is totally evident . |
| 7 | The point being emphasised here is that it is only possible to understand the suddenness of the onset of the downward spiral by keeping in view the production of fixed capital . |
| 8 | The central problem is that it is only ever possible to sample a child 's language over a fixed period of time and within a finite number of situations . |
| 9 | The second is that it is only when people think about what the visual system does in the real world that they begin to study it appropriately . |
| 10 | Yet the reality is that it is only in companies where each shareholder has a sufficiently substantial stake in the company to make it worth his or her while performing the tasks of monitoring and supervising the behaviour of the directors that this constitutional framework can hope to provide an adequate control on the behaviour of directors . |
| 11 | The limitation of this sort of food , from an animal 's point of view , is that it is only available during the short season when a plant is in flower . |
| 12 | The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor . |
| 13 | The second limitation is that it is only occam processes that may be transformed : the laws do not apply to guarded processes or conditionals , even when they have the same syntax as processes . |
| 14 | The premise behind the ability to waive is that it is only the individual who is concerned , and thus if he ‘ chooses ’ to ignore the interest then so much the worse for him . |
| 15 | What is perhaps most remarkable about this grassland is that it is only maintained under active management even rabbits were introduced by the Normans and , although it resembles some periglacial assemblages of plants , it must have been reconstituted after the forest maximum unless there were extensive grazed glades in that period . |
| 16 | This album 's minus point is that it 's only 40 minutes long ; its plus point is that none of its songs are even a millimetre below excellent . |
| 17 | Yeah , because the point that 's being made is that it 's only the flower of the rose which has all these properties , it 's not the whole bush itself , presumably . |
| 18 | The twist to this story is that it was only when the gods lost patience and threatened to draw a veil of darkness across the proceedings , leaving me stranded high and wet ( and rather chilled ) on one of the most rugged landscapes in the land , that I at last took the chance and accepted the offer that had been proffered . |
| 19 | The commonest explanation of King Hussein 's behaviour is that he is only doing what he has always done best : surviving . |
| 20 | A common criticism of the early varieties was that they were only ‘ once flowering ’ , and that the colour range was rather limited — but no more . |
| 21 | Mr Padoa-Schioppa 's main handicap was that he was only number four in the Bank . |
| 22 | Part of the problem was that I was only in my twenties when I did it , and therefore still quite young in their eyes . |
| 23 | My impression was that I was only getting a small part of his attention , that he was profoundly preoccupied and that the one thing he wanted was to be left alone . ’ |
| 24 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 25 | The significance of that result was that it was only Wales 's third win in five seasons in the competition . |