Example sentences of "is only that " in BNC.

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1 What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience .
2 To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male .
3 It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company .
4 And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’
5 The point is only that there are long-term trends and patterns in crime , violence , and disorder .
6 On the other hand , there is no alternative to understanding the world through interpretations and models and hence through what are , in the last analysis , intellectual fictions whose warrant is only that it is as if they were true .
7 But the empirical evidence for this claim is only that the facts can be read consistently with it .
8 It is generally possible to isolate at least one compelling selling feature even if it is only that your client 's product is the cheapest .
9 That we do not have such an answer , it can be argued , is the fact that what follows , from the occurrence of the effect , is only that that circumstance or another occurred .
10 ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’
11 If God had so wished , he most certainly could have created duplicate worlds ; it is only that in so doing God would have acted without a sufficient reason , and this would be contrary to his nature .
12 ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it .
13 Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way .
14 It is only that people have lost the secret . ’
15 It is only that by doing so , the accounts are reflecting the economic reality more closely .
16 The point is only that this is as a direct result of the accounting method adopted rather than any policy decision .
17 It is only that I live in Dresden and that I fight like this that keeps me sane .
18 Indeed , if the effect of the exchange 's rules is only that the member is liable to other members ( or the clearing house ) as a principal , he may actually be dealing as an agent in any event , and his client may be able to read through the contract to the market .
19 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 .
20 The problem he says is only that Mr Tijani turned out to be so ill , otherwise he came as a legitimate private patient .
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