Example sentences of "it is only as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only as we remain exiles , stay-behind agents , spies in enemy territory , that we can really learn to delight in God alone . |
| 2 | It is only as we become at ease with the condition of our own humanity that we can accept another person 's . |
| 3 | The fact that the younger the subject is , the more able he is to recall details of past lives , seems to me to be quite simple to understand : it is only as our children pass through the Western educational system that they are taught to forego intuition and creativity in favour of logic and calculation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Therefore , even if complex real-world situations can only be represented by complex models , the proponents of the object-oriented model argue that it is only as it need be to represent these situations on computers and to manipulate those representations for the purpose of processing queries . |