Example sentences of "[adv] it [is] only [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is only because the duties of citizenship have been reduced to a minimum in those societies , with even voting being voluntary in most of them , that they survive as unitary states at all . |
| 2 | Only it 's only cos it has n't got the extra |
| 3 | So it is only if he admits the strength of the argument from error that he can think he is getting anywhere by refuting PC k . |
| 4 | we had four kids I mean now it 's only when we get visitors you know when |
| 5 | Often it is only when their disposal did not go as planned that their existence or the fact that they once existed comes to the historian 's attention . |
| 6 | So I said well it 's only when you 've just had a baby like , you know , like cows . |
| 7 | For Lacan notes how it is only when the infant encounters itself in a ‘ mirroring ’ image that a form is set up for the face and body ; the mirror provides a perceptual gestalt ‘ ideal ’ form , which does not reflect a reality since it differs from the subject 's fragmentary experience . |
| 8 | In fact , sometimes it is only when doubts are expressed that we have the first clue that things are no longer the same . |
| 9 | If it can be significantly talked about , it seems , then it is only as some kind of state , or situation , an ontological " event " perhaps , certainly not as an entity . |
| 10 | Technology is changing our world so much that small groups of people through computers and elsewhere are able to determine vast patterns of human behaviour and so it 's gon na be a long struggle but through our struggle in Africa and your struggle here where we all want democracy but democracy 's only a process what we have to contend with is also power because ultimately it 's only when you 're able to exercise that power that you can deliver for the majority of the people . |
| 11 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |