Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [is] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 2 | ‘ You are an apprentice historian and therefore should know that it is only in this century that this attempt to sanitise death has stricken our race . |
| 3 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 4 | and I think we must recognise that it is only that many of the questions and questionnaire had they been displayed of what they wanted to propose . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Of course ten billion is an enormous number of people , but it does n't seem quite so alarming a figure when you realise that it 's only twice the current population of the world . |
| 7 | Please continue to view your progress in the mirror and realise that it is only one more day before you measure and weigh yourself to enter your reduced ( I hope ! ) statistics on the Weight and Inch Loss Record Chart . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope you realise that it is only on account of the entreaty of Taheb that I see you , Huy , ’ were his words of greeting . |
| 9 | Beattie concludes that it is only during the hesitant phase of a speech cycle that the clause is a major unit of speech planning . |
| 10 | I still ca n't buy cos it 's only my first time bloody round ! |
| 11 | An excellent new book that 's come out and you can easily buy because it 's only six nine nine , and is book , erm kind of bedtime reading . |
| 12 | I do n't know whether it 's only a English . |
| 13 | Even when you have decided a broad direction , and I should emphasize that it is only possible to set ambitions in a broad sense and only helpful so to do , there will inevitably come times when external events show that one has made a false assessment of one 's starting point or the ability of one 's competitors , known or unsuspected , to seize the initiative . |
| 14 | If speechreading is being considered for someone who is very elderly , it should be recognized that it is only one of many factors . |
| 15 | But it is important to realize that it is only relatively recently , especially during the 1980s , that the full picture has begun to emerge . |
| 16 | What is clear is that the scale of a large company 's business and the fact that the board meets only periodically , perhaps monthly or even quarterly , mean that it is only the most important decisions that are made at board level . |
| 17 | He repeated this over and over , as if he believed that it is only " they " whoever they were , told him how to act , then everything would be all right . |
| 18 | For products that are expensive and only used sporadically an unattractive product may be chosen if it has an exceptional performance as its handling characteristics will ensure that it is only used as a last resort and not used casually when other cheaper products would suffice . |
| 19 | Piaget and Klein also show that it is only through the intrinsically dynamic relationship between the infant and its environment that the subject is able to become itself . |
| 20 | This level of subjective risk is similar to a crucial part of the Summala model which is a ‘ subjective risk monitor ’ which is sensitive to the subjective probability of an adverse event and the degree of the negative consequences associated with that event , the only difference is that while Summala claim that the level of subjective risk output by this monitor is generally nil , Wilde ( 1988 ) assumes that it is only ‘ psychologically nil ’ ( p. 444 ) . |
| 21 | There is , however , no firm basis for such confidence and , as will be seen to be significant in relation to notions of parliamentary sovereignty , it is by no means universally accepted that it is only the characteristics of the Parliament of England which survived these constitutional upheavals . |
| 22 | Quine would accept that this is so , but hold that it is only so because in this familiar case there is an agreed general scheme for French — English translation . |
| 23 | Indeed , it could be argued that it is only problems which are set within this framework that are viewed by the legal community as being properly legal . |
| 24 | Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Any analysis of big clubs who have tried to buy success would show that it is only a tiny minority who succeed in doing so . ’ |
| 26 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |
| 27 | Such a process is essential to help a team to mature because it is only through reflection that a team can emerge from the forming and storming stages . |
| 28 | I always was attacked on the grounds that the world I wrote about did n't exist and it 's only in the last five to ten years here in Ireland , that my work is seen to be actually true . |
| 29 | Having firmly rejected this device for the other adjective constructions discussed so far ( not excluding the postnominal attributive ) , we consider that it is only in Sections 4.5 onwards that we have encountered a construction where the adjective can reasonably be treated in this way . |
| 30 | I ca n't believe that it is only seven months since Lynn told me she had a four-year-old who was ‘ a really nice sort . ’ |