Example sentences of "that [is] only " in BNC.

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1 That is only another way of saying Frozen Hurricane , he wrote .
2 ‘ In another location I would probably have a full dining room every night , but that is only a part of what is important to me .
3 He stood up , stony-faced , and was turning to the door when James Menzies held up his hand and said , ‘ Wait — wait — that is only half the business . ’
4 That is only reasonable given that , in the new age of investor protection , the aim of a new system would be to improve the quality of information which was made available to shareholders .
5 But that is only part of the explanation for the magnitude of their swing to the Conservatives .
6 This can be seen throughout Formen in his struggles with the word ‘ property ’ , but that is only a beginning .
7 But that is only the beginning .
8 That is only a part of the story , now told in a book published by the Trust , The Saving of Spitalfields .
9 That is only a fifth of what ITV companies charge each other for less popular , but , less economical , ‘ quality ’ drama .
10 That is only what we would have expected them to do .
11 But that is only the beginning .
12 There is one newcomer , however , that is only now finding its market but which could play a great part in feeding the world 's people ; and that is a man-made cereal , a hybrid , called triticale .
13 And that is only a small part of a litany of hood-related sorrows .
14 Obviously , television has heightened awareness of the sport , but that is only half the story .
15 Our opponents say we do cause such disturbance but I suspect that is only that is only because they see all canoeists as a noisy bunch of exuberant youngsters .
16 Our opponents say we do cause such disturbance but I suspect that is only that is only because they see all canoeists as a noisy bunch of exuberant youngsters .
17 Some people tend to take advantage of a placid nature — that is only human — so I realized that in order to prevent abuse of my personality I would have to put up a barrier to protect my inner self .
18 But that is only an expression of how the lioness is feeling within herself .
19 But that is only half the picture , for sensory perception is always linked to motor response , to outward behaviour .
20 A team of ferrets should number an absolute minimum of two and that is only sufficient if you pursue the sport only infrequently .
21 The striking thing about cases such as these is not that they failed — that is only to be expected — but rather that they contain suggestions that a proper claim might meet with success , although difficulty might attend mounting it .
22 But that is only how we perceive it , how it registers itself to our physical senses , and not how it really is .
23 That is only one of a series of incidents in the CAA 's files where conflicting transmissions have led to dangerous situations .
24 That is only because supplies of Thunderbirds did not arrive in Britain quickly enough to satisfy demand , according to toy experts .
25 There is also the option of using wild flowers , although that is only feasible if you live in or near the country , and you must be very careful about which flowers you pick — some of them are protected species .
26 The poems are of course cleverly written but that is only to be expected of a writer of John Bitumen 's calibre .
27 That is only a part of life , and as it no longer concerns us , why should it hold us together ?
28 But that is only one option .
29 But that is only the first stage , the negative side of the matter .
30 However , that is only true if the psychological processes that operate during natural behaviour sequences are also accessible to our arbitrarily selected behavioural tasks ( Rozin 1976 ) .
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