Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Presbytery has not encouraged party political participation and it has only been because we felt certainly that Dr Paisley 's position , that the country needs it and we felt that he should be allowed to go . |
| 2 | ‘ I think he will win , but it has only been when he has had the sun on his back in the last couple of days that he has really come on . ’ |
| 3 | The final reason for ignoring human actors can only be that they do not matter . |
| 4 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 5 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 6 | It 'll only be after I 've m met a few people and photographed them well , that maybe my name will be start to be mentioned around That is another reason for courting the Trade 's Council and any other councillors that come in . |
| 7 | It could only be because they had something to hide . |
| 8 | It seems as though the world is going on , everybody rushing about their daily tasks , but surely this can only be because they have not yet heard the news or else they too would feel emotionally paralysed . |
| 9 | Everyone knew how important punctuality was to Laura ; she believed if you arrived late it could only be because you had not started out early enough . |
| 10 | But if you do , even though the evidence seems stacked against me , it can only be because you love me too , for that 's the only thing that could overcome a mistrust as deeply rooted as yours . ’ |
| 11 | It would only be if they suspected that something odd was going on . |
| 12 | It will only be when you see the results of your actions that you realize how effective they have been . |
| 13 | And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays . |
| 14 | That 's what I 'm saying , right , now , what I 'm saying is there 's a , that , that , is , there 's , there 's , there 's , there 's things , there 's things , there 's guides to be able to do that , right , and the guide is there 's certain things you do and certain things you do n't do , because what you do basically is that you close him on his final objection which is what you 're just saying you did , right , but you close him on his final objection , how did you manage to close him on his final objection ? |
| 15 | We also showed that grade two do significantly better than grade three , but most importantly perhaps is that we showed that patients with a vascular count that are less than twenty one do significantly better than patients with a vascular count of greater or equal to twenty one . |
| 16 | So the easiest thing really is obviously is if I get the thing sorted out and then , turn it |
| 17 | ‘ I 've heard it said that the only reason we got the contract with Talkin' Loud is 'cos we know Gilles . |
| 18 | One reason why that will be so is that we have a coherent approach to Europe , not one that changes every weekend . |
| 19 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 20 | The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said . |
| 21 | The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture . |
| 22 | She gives her half-laugh and tells me she does n't know how old people generally are when they get married . |
| 23 | Raging at Felipe had just been because she 'd been shocked and scared for him when she 'd seen him take off into the air . |
| 24 | Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or |
| 25 | That can not just be because they have a lot of flotations and rights issues to work on . |
| 26 | That may just be Cos you 've got good circulation , in fact , down here . |
| 27 | He said it would just be until I got myself sorted out , and then I would get him back straight away . |
| 28 | He looked long and searchingly at the Banks of Knamber that tonight were as they had been then before the moon rose , grey and pale as a sky dotted with tiny black clouds . |
| 29 | The other reason why women should organise and educate separately is because we have more important work to do than to have our attention and energy continually claimed by men . |
| 30 | The reason I have given it the temporary title referred to above is because I have witnessed at least two name exchanges at the station in recent months . |