Example sentences of "but it is only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is large , rich and compressed , but it is only of the eighth magnitude , and I find it very difficult with × 7 and not really easy with × 8.5 or × 12 , though with × 20 it is obvious enough . |
| 2 | Freedom of the press has a long history , but it is only since 1980 that the right to communicate and the freedom that it entails has been seen as the very centre of human rights , and indeed as a precondition for a meaningful implementation of other human rights . |
| 3 | But it is only with the development of the nation state that nationalism comes into existence . |
| 4 | But it is only with the chance of full-time work that this group can build up its rights to social insurance benefits , which prevents any further misfortune resulting in an automatic relegation to dependency on means-tested assistance . |
| 5 | The office-holders and agencies which ran the new units — the elder , the clerk , the executive board , the assembly , the court — were elected by the peasants whom they served , but it is only with considerable reservation that volosti can be said to have increased the representative character of the imperial polity . |
| 6 | Premier League chief Rick Parry has been invited but it is only for the 14 clubs . |
| 7 | But it is only against such a background , I submit , that the issue of the technological imperative can properly be understood . |
| 8 | But it is only in the imagination of the Bride , of the Bachelors , of the viewer . |
| 9 | The business of turning ‘ hot ’ money into legitimate tender is as old as crime itself , but it is only in recent years , largely because of the explosion of the drugs trade , that money laundering has become such a huge business . |
| 10 | But it is only in some of their lyrics that this cleanliness of vision appears . |
| 11 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | ISDN technology has been tested since the mid-1980s , but it is only in the past 12 months that BT and its counterparts in other countries have had ISDN lines widely available . |
| 13 | Parts of the sequence exist elsewhere but it is only in Bratislava that you find the complete set . |
| 14 | But it is only in the last 30 years that Australia has secured the knowledge , technique and the desire to produce the sort of subtle , light wines which we enjoy — and at which Australia excels . |
| 15 | But it is only in the second half of 1908 that Picasso turned to a more concentrated study of Cézanne . |
| 16 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
| 17 | This order , as its name suggests , was developed as a richer example than the Corinthian , but it is only in the capital that it differs materially . |
| 18 | Literature on the use of traditional Chinese medicine has existed in China for over 4000 years but it is only in recent times that western scientists have been alerted to its hidden potential . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 21 | Terraces , walls , lawns and borders all play their parts but it is only by judicious planting that we can ensure as much joy in January as in June . |
| 22 | It is easy enough to measure the volumes of lava flows , but it is only by constructing isopach maps that the volume of pyroclastic material erupted can be estimated , and this is particularly important in volcanoes at destructive plate margins , where the mass of magma represented by pyroclastic rocks sometimes far outweighs that represented by lavas . |
| 23 | Silly it may be , but it is only by considering the way women define their job as housewives that the housewife 's long working hours can be understood . |
| 24 | In fact , a particular variable may have more than one function , but it is only by a close analysis that treats speaker variables as independent that we will be able to determine whether this is so . |
| 25 | But it is only from an aesthetic point of view that they merit , in consequence , much less attention ; in the novelist 's eyes they become , on the contrary , more revealing . |