Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] is only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our amendments make it absolutely clear that it is only the deliberate promotion of homosexuality by local authorities that would be affected . |
| 2 | In fact the wording of the Act makes it clear that it is only as mothers that women are given priority in the public sector . |
| 3 | Hence , even when a referendum takes place in Britain , Parliament takes care to make it clear that it is only a " consultative " measure . |
| 4 | ‘ The time has come to make it clear that it is only where a taxpayer has established the existence of a profit-generating operation carried on by him outside Hong Kong that he can hope to escape the charge to profits tax imposed by section 14 . |
| 5 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 6 | As explained earlier when describing the model of living and the model for nursing , the 12 ALs are interrelated ; so too the body systems as categorised by the human biologists are interrelated and it is only for the purposes of description and discussion that they are dealt with separately . |
| 7 | The name is unfamiliar but it is only what its name implies : the capital liabilities that have been discharged , in this case , by repayment of loans . |
| 8 | He insists on this because it is only by ruling out a set of logically possible observation statements that a law or theory is informative . |
| 9 | He ca n't give me any straight answers about all this because he is only concerned with the state-run prison service . |
| 10 | But the group is convinced that it is only a matter of time before someone discovers superconducting semiconductors that will work at the economically viable temperatures of liquid nitrogen . |
| 11 | But I am convinced that it is only temporary and we 've damn well got to see it is . ’ |
| 12 | This is covered by David Robinson in Chapter 7 and it is only necessary here to emphasise the need for some of the partners ( and to a lesser extent senior managers ) to allocate time to financial control and administration . |
| 13 | Whether or not the purchase price is an appropriate or indeed adequate upper limit is arguable but it is only in rare circumstances that a vendor will agree to a higher limit . |
| 14 | This is fortunate because it is only if the value of the cosmological constant is very small that the universe would be suitable for beings like us . |
| 15 | The appropriate tax rates are then applied to calculate the total income tax due and it is only at this stage that the MIRAS system is introduced into the assessment . |
| 16 | The body is by nature very resilient and it is only years later that the symptoms of misuse emerge . |
| 17 | Our body is very resilient and it is only after years and years of mistreatment that it finally says , ‘ I ca n't stand this any more . ‘ |
| 18 | Mr Smith said : ‘ It is very suspicious that it is only one party 's leaflets that have not gone out at all in large quantities . ’ |
| 19 | Do n't say the product is unique if it is only another " me too " product and do n't say it 's new if it is only the packaging which has changed . |
| 20 | Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories . |
| 21 | In the 1960s and 1970s , the growth in households has been concentrated largely among non-married couple households : the number of those headed by a married couple has remained relatively constant and it is only expected to grow by one million in the period 1961 to 2001 . |
| 22 | Although Bob 's command of Serbo-Croat is non-existent and he is only at the early stages of learning Russian the Causevics ' second language — he has enlisted the help of a friend , native Yugoslav Maria Delahunty , to act as an interpreter . |
| 23 | In contrast , the value of the option contract can not be negative since it is only exercised if it has a positive value . |
| 24 | Marling has yet to encounter such conditions and trainer Geoff Wragg warned : ‘ I will have to play it by ear but as long as it is only soft we should be all right . |
| 25 | He , like Samuel Cyuma is slightly concerned that it is only valid up until 23rd September . |
| 26 | The old adage that you only get out what you put in becomes very meaningful and it is only too easy to miss an employee out of a list because a code has been entered incorrectly or because information is inconsistent . |
| 27 | The issue is far more complicated and it is only fair to note that we have not reached a stage of knowledge when we can easily say what explains the status of women among the different peoples of the world . |
| 28 | In this case the business of the subsidiary , ie recruitment agencies , is continuing and it is only certain offices that are being closed . |
| 29 | This flexibility is very important as it is only by changing mode in the middle of a session that a user can vary an earlier trail to explore the text in a new manner . |
| 30 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |