Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] it [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the acceptance by Child of a valid philosophical position for the sociology of knowledge , Jacques Maquet suggested that it was only a threat to those philosophers who saw humans as provided with a spiritual nature that entailed the possibility of transcending economic and social determination through a theoretical ‘ faculty of the true ’ ( Maquet 1973 : 100 ) . |
| 2 | Already Washington knew that it was only a matter of time before the USSR was in a position to present a serious nuclear threat to the United States itself . |
| 3 | Beattie concludes that it is only during the hesitant phase of a speech cycle that the clause is a major unit of speech planning . |
| 4 | The ISE is sceptical of these developments , although critics of the ISE argue that it is only interested in large companies and particularly in developing the international equity market at the expense of smaller domestic equities . |
| 5 | Just before the Calcutta Test Gooch admitted that it was only the actual cricket , and not the bit in between , that he enjoyed from touring these days . |
| 6 | The affair took on quite a different aspect when Mrs Kelleher saw that it was only Miss Nicandra having a bit of fun for herself nothing but smiles now and urgent invitations to a cup of tea . |
| 7 | Generalizing rather , it is probably true to say that Hawaiian-type eruptions are more common on the oceanic island volcanoes than elsewhere ( though the examples of Nyiragongo and Nyamlagira emphasize that it is only a generalization ) , since it is in these environments that the fluid basalt lavas are most likely to be found . |
| 8 | The SPD maintained that it was only possible to fund the reconstruction of eastern Germany by increasing taxes for the well-off . |
| 9 | While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes , Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared . |
| 10 | Other girls had seen him leaving too and Annie felt that it was only a matter of time before her friend was found out . |