Example sentences of "it [is] only that " in BNC.

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1 It 's only that I can not stand possessiveness , it diminishes people . ’
2 I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’
3 It 's only that I think , maybe , that it 's more the vice of America — no , not vice , I do n't think , but difficulty — to be moralistic in politics .
4 It 's only that she might be passed out in the back yard . ’
5 It 's only that this is such a vast place , ’ said Snodgrass , firmly .
6 It 's only that we 'd like to see you happy … ’
7 ‘ Oh , it 's only that I feel I 've been wasting my life !
8 " I hate to cut you short , " said Richard from the hatch , " it 's only that I can hardly expect my staff to be in time if I 'm late myself . "
9 It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent .
10 It 's only that I 'm sharing text books with the others
11 To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male .
12 It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company .
13 It is generally possible to isolate at least one compelling selling feature even if it is only that your client 's product is the cheapest .
14 It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’
15 If God had so wished , he most certainly could have created duplicate worlds ; it is only that in so doing God would have acted without a sufficient reason , and this would be contrary to his nature .
16 ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it .
17 Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way .
18 It is only that people have lost the secret . ’
19 It is only that by doing so , the accounts are reflecting the economic reality more closely .
20 It is only that I live in Dresden and that I fight like this that keeps me sane .
21 and I think we must recognise that it is only that many of the questions and questionnaire had they been displayed of what they wanted to propose .
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