Example sentences of "it is only [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of science is built up on good solid craftsmanship and it is only rarely that the occasional blinding flash of world-shattering importance ever really occurs . |
| 2 | However , it is only rarely that the more esoteric operations are ever used , particularly in programs compiled from high-level languages . |
| 3 | It is only later that the effect of this spending becomes apparent and more money may have to be spent to reach an effect that is desired . |
| 4 | Most are working in central London , some also in one or two other major cities , since it is only there that the sort of prestigious hotels and banqueting suites which can mount an almost unbroken series of events are to be found . |
| 5 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 6 | It is only then that the third stage comes into operation , that of the actual data collection . |
| 7 | It is only now that the correctness of this approach is becoming apparent . |
| 8 | It is only now that the attention can be turned onto the actual hardware and software that will be required . |
| 9 | This emphasis is partly due to the background of the researchers involved ( many are human geographers and sociologists ) and partly because it is only really since the Second World War that major hazards have been monitored systematically , culminating , of course , in the last decade or so in the use of satellite technology . |
| 10 | Today is the actual anniversary of the tragic night in Tottenham when Eubank crushed Watson — and it is only recently that the Islington fighter has started to make a real recovery . |
| 11 | It is only recently that the municipal authorities and hospital boards have begun to discuss the possibility of changing the insurers ' conditions of funding so that they are more permissive of non-medical intervention and support . |
| 12 | It is only recently that the DES has introduced ethnic monitoring in mainstream institutions and some LEAs embarked on equality targets . |
| 13 | However , it is only recently that the connection of reference in general to indexicals has begun to concern those philosophers with an investment in logical semantics . |