Example sentences of "it is only [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 2 | It is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior . |
| 3 | Enthusiasm is closely linked with interest , for it is only when things cease to interest us that we lose enthusiasm . |
| 4 | In the later interviews it is only when grandparents were not known directly that there is no significant memory of them , and we can reasonably assume that this was also the commonest reason for lack of memory in the first set . |
| 5 | Material objects may become temporary substitutes for important relationships , like the mauled soft toy or ragged piece of blanket in childhood , but it is only when relationships with ‘ things ’ rather than people become an established pattern for ‘ shutting out ’ that there is cause for concern . |
| 6 | In fact , sometimes it is only when doubts are expressed that we have the first clue that things are no longer the same . |
| 7 | In fact the wording of the Act makes it clear that it is only as mothers that women are given priority in the public sector . |
| 8 | It is only as deaths of red or green moths in that environment that these are fortuitous events ; this fortuitousness being , as philosophers say , description relative . |