Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] it be only " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know but it 's only giving you one |
| 2 | I believe that it is only by going back to the basics and debating questions such as ‘ What do you want from the audit process ? |
| 3 | I suppose that it 's only when you have the financial means that you get the treatment everyone deserves . |
| 4 | I think that it 's only a fear of women but it 's also a belief in the innate or or learn superiority of men over women |
| 5 | It might save money , but in terms of the environmental impact it is quite disastrous , and I think that it 's only now that the real problems in London for example are coming home to roost , er and I would ask that point to be borne in mind by whoever we decide should make representations to the commissioners . |
| 6 | I am in everyone 's bad books because I said that it was only a shop . |
| 7 | So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it . |
| 8 | Erm , can I say that it 's only last year that we organised that video for secured car parks , and employed a blooming outside presenter to do it , and that cost us twelve thousand quid , and that were at Derby and they made an excellent bloody video of it did n't they ? |
| 9 | But I supposed that it was only the sweet pain of yearning the sweet uncertainty of what-may-perhaps-be . |
| 10 | Stevenson himself thought that it was only in virtue of a descriptive meaning , which ethical sentences typically had as well as their emotive meaning , that they could function in this sort of context . |
| 11 | Of course ten billion is an enormous number of people , but it does n't seem quite so alarming a figure when you realise that it 's only twice the current population of the world . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope you realise that it is only on account of the entreaty of Taheb that I see you , Huy , ’ were his words of greeting . |
| 13 | That 's right , but , but you know that it 's only the , are only one of the major supermarket chains that gives money to organization and one of the organizations in Glasgow there was an article in the Scotsman or the Herald the other day and I must n't quote names because I can be wrong , but one of them and there were major s major stores selling food as well as actual food retailers cited , but only one of them will give food that 's past its sell-by date or surplus or whatever for one of the Glasgow charities for the homeless . |
| 14 | In a prison-camp the world you wanted to get to was visible all the time and , although you did not live in it , you knew that it was only a matter of some barbed wire and a few yards away . |
| 15 | Then she remembered that it was only a selection of the poems he had been reading and she did not need to speculate further , for — much to her surprise — he began to read |
| 16 | And , well Fred opens them himself you see because it 's only now and again he has them . |
| 17 | If you go to a house and you realize that it 's only a very small house and it 's a very big van you 'll only pack it up that way because you 're packing faster by doing it that way . |
| 18 | This view was then modified by the ‘ young Hegelians ’ , a group of radical followers and critics of Hegel who argues that it was only the reformed or purified State which could be the source of a just society . |
| 19 | Having firmly rejected this device for the other adjective constructions discussed so far ( not excluding the postnominal attributive ) , we consider that it is only in Sections 4.5 onwards that we have encountered a construction where the adjective can reasonably be treated in this way . |
| 20 | However , we believe that it is only right to point out that we are not a specialist tour operator in the field of holidays for the disabled . |
| 21 | Well it all depends if it 's value for money because we er , we fe we felt that it 's only one day . |
| 22 | We derived a lot of job satisfaction from this one , but unfortunately we knew that it was only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 23 | No cos they bent round and we had a tie , we did but it was only a little bannister you know , we tried it |
| 24 | there and then we went back had a shower went and had something to eat cos it was only like bed , breakfast and evening meal , went and had something to eat and then |
| 25 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 26 | Some we chased but it was only a matter of chasing them out of the way . |
| 27 | and they add that it is only reasonable to do so ; for the parrot alone can give a good imitation of the human voice . |
| 28 | However they put aside their competitiveness ( the Caledonian and Balmoral in Edinburgh , for example , are fighting for exactly the same guests ) because they know that it is only by working together , as one body , that they will attract visitors to Scotland in the first place . |
| 29 | Passers-by were clearly baffled by what they saw and it was only when curiosity proved too much that anyone came near enough to be buttonholed . |
| 30 | But the stabbing pain in his eardrums was almost welcome , as the roaring subsided to a grumbling , faraway avalanche and he realised that it was only the sound of the storm . |