Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catt accepts that it was only a minor detail in her boyfriend 's sacking but feels it has a relevance . |
| 2 | Beattie concludes that it is only during the hesitant phase of a speech cycle that the clause is a major unit of speech planning . |
| 3 | The couple have now left Ross on wye , Jonathans girfriend says that it was only a small minority who were involved in racial abuse but it was so unpleasant they now feel they ca n't live there any longer . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | AMNESTY regrets that it is only able to send full English transcripts of replies to members who write in requesting one ( accompanied by SAE ) . |
| 6 | From the outside it looks the same as the broader opportunity garden , but once through the gates the entrant sees that it is only a narrow strip . |
| 7 | It is interesting to note that stereo sound is already featured on some video recorders and camcorders , and it seems that it is only a matter of time before it becomes standard as for sound recorders . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly , he would think an action the better the more it augmented happiness , but it seems that it is only wrong , for him , if it actually augments unhappiness . |
| 9 | It seems that it was only yesterday that singer/songwriter/activist Sinead O'Connor was at the top of the charts and could ‘ do not wrong ’ as far as the record buying public goes . |
| 10 | Kelly ( 1955 ) notes that it is only by being attuned to repetitive aspects in the monotonous flow of life that sense can be made of the world . |
| 11 | This strongly indicates that it is only males who have the status and power to provide , in the eyes of the relevant professionals , a credible challenge to the GP . |
| 12 | When knitting an adult size garment , the slow progress of the garter carriage usually means that it is only possible to knit one garment piece each day . |
| 13 | This means that it is only necessary to strike out in the declaration at the top of the second page to the effect that the survivor can ( for joint tenancy ) or can not ( tenancy in common ) give a valid receipt for capital money . |
| 14 | The reference to ‘ Eventually ’ in the last sentence implies that it was only after a commendable period of restraint that horses were ordered in . |
| 15 | It accepts the priority of the process of objectification over either subject or object and recognizes that it is only the process itself which accounts for their appearance as discrete . |
| 16 | Vickery ( 1973 ) argues that it is only the latter , based on knowledge and skills that are at an advanced level rather than merely different , that should qualify as specialization . |
| 17 | This view was then modified by the ‘ young Hegelians ’ , a group of radical followers and critics of Hegel who argues that it was only the reformed or purified State which could be the source of a just society . |
| 18 | He claims that it 's only ‘ half a solution ’ because most companies run one or two programs that are n't on the Wabi can-run list . |
| 19 | This suggests that it is only a possibility where the baby is so handicapped for any reasonable human existence to be impossible . |
| 20 | Somewhat like Storr he suggests that it is only in overcoming such psychopathology that effective creating can occur — an uncontroversial conclusion but one that scarcely illuminates our understanding . |
| 21 | The prevailing value system suggests that it is only if you have paid in full for what you receive that you fully deserve to have it . |
| 22 | While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes , Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared . |