Example sentences of "it [is] only [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's only that this is such a vast place , ’ said Snodgrass , firmly . |
| 2 | It takes a few moments to adjust — one moment one is dry , wearing dry swimming trunks and walking about , and the next one is progressively getting wetter ( including the swimming trunks , which somehow seems particularly inappropriate ) — and it 's only when half a length or so has been swum that the whole thing seems ordinary again . |
| 3 | And , it 's only if this committee decides to take a hand in pushing environmental issues forward , that they will actually come about , except , almost by accident . |
| 4 | Warlow pointed out , quite correctly , that this is not the sort of inversion we should be looking at : if the Earth flipped over in this way the Sun would still rise in the east , whereas there are legends that , before the ( undescribed ) catastrophe , the Sun rose in the west , and that it is only since that catastrophe that the Sun has risen in the east . |
| 5 | and I think we must recognise that it is only that many of the questions and questionnaire had they been displayed of what they wanted to propose . |
| 6 | It is only after this that the supporting role of outside sympathisers can be useful . |
| 7 | It is only after these claims are discharged that the executor or administrator will transfer the property to those entitled ; or , if the property is settled by will and the executor is not himself trustee , to trustees for them . |
| 8 | But it is only while attentive to someone 's suffering that one is spontaneously moved to help him . |
| 9 | It is only if all these conditions are met that the adult is likely to respond appropriately ( see acts performed by children 's first words , Chapter 3 ) . |
| 10 | Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram-raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . |
| 11 | Friendship as well as marriage is a two-way affair and it is only when both parties have the opportunity to share problems , experiences and ideas and to give as well as take , that the relationship is a success . |
| 12 | It is only as economic circumstances have eased , for most people at least , that the expressive aspects of relationships have become more prominent , although whether family relationships can ever be regarded as ‘ purely ’ expressive is very questionable ( ibid . |
| 13 | If it can be significantly talked about , it seems , then it is only as some kind of state , or situation , an ontological " event " perhaps , certainly not as an entity . |