Example sentences of "be only that " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present time , as we have described , the problem with daytime sleep is believed to be only that it is too short . |
| 2 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 3 | If scio was not thought adequate at classical law , the reason can be only that it did not make sufficiently clear that the testator intended a trustee to be legally obliged to make property over to a beneficiary . |
| 4 | Now , strangely , Spalding have come up with a ball which measures 1.717 but which they call simply a 1.72 — the legal requirement regarding size , as stipulated in Clause ( b ) of Appendix III of the Rules of Golf , being only that the diameter of the ball shall be not less than 1.680 inches ( 42.67mm ) . |
| 5 | It 's only that I can not stand possessiveness , it diminishes people . ’ |
| 6 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's only that I think , maybe , that it 's more the vice of America — no , not vice , I do n't think , but difficulty — to be moralistic in politics . |
| 8 | It 's only that she might be passed out in the back yard . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's only that this is such a vast place , ’ said Snodgrass , firmly . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's only that we 'd like to see you happy … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , it 's only that I feel I 've been wasting my life ! |
| 12 | " I hate to cut you short , " said Richard from the hatch , " it 's only that I can hardly expect my staff to be in time if I 'm late myself . " |
| 13 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 14 | It 's only that I 'm sharing text books with the others |
| 15 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company . |
| 18 | And we must remember our interest in Livesey is only that he might give us a lead to the young girl 's killer . ’ |
| 19 | The point is only that there are long-term trends and patterns in crime , violence , and disorder . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But the empirical evidence for this claim is only that the facts can be read consistently with it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is only that people have lost the secret . ’ |
| 29 | It is only that by doing so , the accounts are reflecting the economic reality more closely . |
| 30 | The point is only that this is as a direct result of the accounting method adopted rather than any policy decision . |