Example sentences of "is [adv] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is only if the universe is in this no-boundary state that the laws of science , on their own , determine the probabilities of each possible history . |
| 32 | This is fortunate because it is only if the value of the cosmological constant is very small that the universe would be suitable for beings like us . |
| 33 | It is only if the prosecution amounts to an abuse of the process of the court and is oppressive and vexatious that the judge has the power to intervene . |
| 34 | It is only because a text formally under-determines its interpretation in context that a space is created for pragmatics . |
| 35 | You need to make a conscious effort especially to get the tune right — at the beginning you will probably feel that you sound strange and maybe affected , but that is only because the intonation patterns are new to you . |
| 36 | There is a great need to study the context of such deserted or shrunken settlements , since it is only when a region is studied in its entirety that we can get some idea of the changes which have taken place in settlements and the settlement pattern in the area . |
| 37 | Because — you must all understand — it is only when an exchange is made that we can narrow down the area of search to concentrate our resources . |
| 38 | But it is only when the parent quark and radiated gluon themselves have relatively high energies that the jets from each can be clearly distinguished . |
| 39 | I know this is only when the switchboard 's busy |
| 40 | The decision to publish will involve a calculation of many risks — it is only when the apparition of a successful legal action tips the balance against publishing a story of genuine public interest that " freedom of expression " has been meaningfully curtailed by law . |
| 41 | In the case of protozoan parasites , and indeed gill and skin flukes in particular , almost every Koi carries around a resident population — it is only when the balance is tipped in favour of the invaders , rather than the host , that human intervention will be necessary . |
| 42 | For Lacan notes how it is only when the infant encounters itself in a ‘ mirroring ’ image that a form is set up for the face and body ; the mirror provides a perceptual gestalt ‘ ideal ’ form , which does not reflect a reality since it differs from the subject 's fragmentary experience . |
| 43 | This is so since the relation of dependence between the variables given in the law is wholly symmetrical : a later state of a system fixes an earlier state as much as an earlier fixes a later . |
| 44 | This is so that the crowd can give him a fair judgement . |
| 45 | The reason for this is so that the recipient can see at a glance what the letter is about . |
| 46 | This is so that the energy can be made to travel a much greater distance . |
| 47 | The kinematics of materials , considered as assemblages of particles may be described by either of the two methods and this is so whether the material is elastic , viscous or a classical fluid . |
| 48 | This is so because the world around us — including the social world — channels our actions , constraining us to act in particular ways . |
| 49 | We know that this is so because the X-ray diffraction pattern , which shows the crystal lattice spacing , does not change when cellulose swells in water . |
| 50 | The the the difference is perhaps that the scientist will analyse |
| 51 | He was certainly not purporting to compile a representative list of ‘ extra-hazardous ’ activities — though one of the fundamental problems about Rylands v. Fletcher is perhaps that the law has never made up its mind whether the rule is aimed at such activities . |
| 52 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 53 | It is perhaps because the element of the surreal which is more strongly emphasised here , conveys a livelier sense of discovery . |
| 54 | That it is not so here is perhaps because the charioteer was not designed to be looked at on its own but as part of a larger whole . |
| 55 | This is perhaps because the infant 's relation with its mother is disturbed when the child begins to perceive its father as another figure in the family . |
| 56 | Many other dangers exist and the disorders which result can be just as harmful to the vine , but the risk of their occurrence is less and the vigneron 's ability to contain the damage they cause is much greater . |
| 57 | The first reason is obviously that the performance of , say , the syntactic component depends on the performance of other , lower-level components . |
| 58 | It is exactly as the explorer 's biographer predicted it would be : 1,800 feet high , half-covered with jungle , a little way off the trans-Isthmian Indian tracks and somewhat detached from the rest of the Sierra — an outlier , distinct and somewhat aloof . |
| 59 | What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded . |
| 60 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |