Example sentences of "only [be] it [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can imagine it would be , because perhaps , erm , the higher you are , not only is it more easy to fall , but it 's more easy to be tempted . |
| 2 | Not only is it more convenient to pick up the ‘ phone and make contact , you are also more likely to succeed since few people are able to ignore the telephone and leave it unanswered . |
| 3 | Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all . |
| 4 | Generally , though , the manufacture was primarily an urban one , any slight activity in the villages of the Vale of the White Horse escaping Leland 's notice ; not only was it most unlikely to have spread to the Downs , but the social structure of the countryside north of Newbury was typical of corn-growing chalklands . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it was widely suspected that Thomas 's race was an important consideration in his nomination , for not only was it politically expedient to maintain a black representative on the Supreme Court , but to have secured confirmation from the Democrat-controlled Senate for a white male conservative would have been almost impossible . |