Example sentences of "and it is only " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is only a patch ! |
| 2 | One of the problems with not getting killed climbing while still young is that you reach such a great age that your standard falls mercilessly , and it is only possible to relive great exploits by reading about yourself in guidebooks . |
| 3 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 4 | The issue is far more complicated and it is only fair to note that we have not reached a stage of knowledge when we can easily say what explains the status of women among the different peoples of the world . |
| 5 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 6 | She does not become criminally liable merely by assisting her husband to escape punishment for a crime which she knows him to have committed ; and it is only within certain limits that husband and wife are competent , and within narrower limits that they are compellable , to give evidence against one another , in criminal proceedings . |
| 7 | And it is only in the slump of 1929–33 , and more recently in 1973–5 , 1987 , and 1989 , that catastrophic falls in Stock Exchange values have shown the true vulnerability of equities . |
| 8 | And it is only when the vote is over that we will know how the MMB will be run in the coming year , and if there will be any change in the way decisions on the future of the board are taken . |
| 9 | However , the German attitude to Europe is something which is determined by a massive historical heritage , and it is only by investigating this that both the motives and dangers can be truly grasped . |
| 10 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |
| 11 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 12 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 13 | Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories . |
| 14 | We are a mystery to ourselves , and it is only God who sees into this mystery , knowing us completely . |
| 15 | All the same , the potential exists , and it is only since September 1983 that new regulations on the treatment of timber-frame houses with preservatives have come into force . |
| 16 | After the frantic design years of the early 1980s board design has now settled down to a fairly stable format and it is only construction techniques that are still changing slightly . |
| 17 | These older boards still sail perfectly well in lighter winds and it is only when you start improving to stronger wind conditions that the difference becomes apparent . |
| 18 | This does not mean that all pensioners live in poverty , but the effect of age discrimination is to depress the whole of this group 's income and it is only those with access to higher incomes through , for example , substantial occupational pensions , who are able to cushion themselves against the economic consequences . |
| 19 | Below : The Dreadnoughts did not operate to Fleetwood in their heyday , and it is only the restored car 59 which has appeared there in recent years . |
| 20 | In the meantime , the UK is now the third largest producer of beef and veal in the EEC , though its production of about a million tonnes is only half of that of France and it is only seventh in the table of per capita consumption at 22.3kg per annum . |
| 21 | However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it . |
| 22 | As explained earlier when describing the model of living and the model for nursing , the 12 ALs are interrelated ; so too the body systems as categorised by the human biologists are interrelated and it is only for the purposes of description and discussion that they are dealt with separately . |
| 23 | Most of science is built up on good solid craftsmanship and it is only rarely that the occasional blinding flash of world-shattering importance ever really occurs . |
| 24 | After all , the survey will have to be done at some stage and it is only going to be helpful to carry out a pilot if it tells the designer something he did not know . |
| 25 | And it is only the love of Christ in me that enables me to say that . |
| 26 | Not only does it tend to concentrate on psychic inner experience at the expense of the spiritual , but it inflates one 's pride in having some superhuman power that others do not possess , and it is only too easy to overstep the boundary between the neutral psychic and the evil occult . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ he continued , ‘ I know we all call this place the summer-house , and it is only used to keep salmon nets and baskets in nowadays , but it is really a gazebo , where the local gentry used to meet their ladies of ill repute in the old days . ’ |
| 28 | Each source of energy or technology has its own economic , social and ecological niche , and it is only in that niche that it can prosper . |
| 29 | Friendship as well as marriage is a two-way affair and it is only when both parties have the opportunity to share problems , experiences and ideas and to give as well as take , that the relationship is a success . |
| 30 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |