Example sentences of "but it be only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prolonged oesophageal acid exposure seen in patients with hiatus hernia is because of reduced acid clearance but it is only seen in patients with lower oesophageal sphincter deficiency . |
| 2 | BT can afford to take a smaller profit , of course , but it is only doing that because it has been shamed into doing so by its customers . |
| 3 | Some may baulk at such a suggestion but it is only making explicit what archivists do implicitly . |
| 4 | The council will balance its budget this year but it 's only getting an increase of 6.5 per cent and it needs 8 per cent . |
| 5 | And years ago I used to have sciatica , round the nerve and but it 's only happens when I sit and then the last thing so I went to the doctors the other day and what they do , they see us around bash on , on the knee on the nerve and she said , all my muscles have gone ! |
| 6 | Both holes and pockets can be cut in wood or plasterboard without having to drill a starting hole : but it 's only advised for experienced users . |
| 7 | But it 's only happening in some less developed countries . |
| 8 | I know but it 's only giving you one |
| 9 | But it 's only used in the bonny weather you see . |
| 10 | Well , they 'd called it embezzlement but it was only taking what was his by right . |
| 11 | He dozed but woke with a start , dreaming that the Hell-hounds he had just visited were snuffling at the door , but it was only Ranulf dragging a stool across the dusty rushes . |
| 12 | But it was only accelerating a process of contraction that had begun decades earlier . |
| 13 | But it was only to avoid any tedious and wholly inconsequential explanation . |
| 14 | I own I have demeaned myself but it was only to try you . |
| 15 | This is fighting talk , and suggests his fond memories of Maurras and the Action Française , but it was only talk — perhaps it was Eliot 's way of enlivening what he thought to be the muted tone of discussion in England ; perhaps it was also a method of inspiring his colleagues at the Moot whom he called " companions in affliction " , intellectuals or refugees who were on the periphery of events to which there was no foreseeable end . |