Example sentences of "only [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present time , as we have described , the problem with daytime sleep is believed to be only that it is too short . |
| 2 | The implication of the term is not only that it is a privileged group but that , as a result , its members will not desire change and so be a conservative force in society . |
| 3 | It matters only that it is a tribute well deserved and well located . |
| 4 | We are not arguing that either is necessarily an illegitimate exercise , only that it is significant that these things are done in the name of urban regeneration . |
| 5 | The modern-day locator has everything in its favour — provided only that it is fitted with a functioning battery . |
| 6 | This is not to say that the position is wrong but only that it is arguable , or in other words , open to conceptual evaluation . |
| 7 | I do not mean that there is not a valid distinction to be drawn between sense and sentence ; only that it is a mistake to think of the sense of an utterance as though it were something existing alongside the utterance but in the ethereal medium of the mind . |
| 8 | On the other hand , there is no alternative to understanding the world through interpretations and models and hence through what are , in the last analysis , intellectual fictions whose warrant is only that it is as if they were true . |
| 9 | You know they 're lying because you can see , not only that it is n't pitch dark , but that anyone who is n't blind can see that too . |
| 10 | In other cases the prisoner will know only that it is 20 years or more , although if he asks and if it is no more than 20 years he will , as I understand it , be given that information . |
| 11 | Therefore , it is not possible to use this condition to argue that a future is underpriced , only that it is overpriced . |
| 12 | It is not that testing rigorously formulated theories from deduced hypotheses is never done , only that it is not the standard of scientificity . |
| 13 | He defined shared values in the 1980s in the broadest sense , But I maintain not only that it is valid to speak about shared values in that sense , but also that it is that commonality that defines us as a society . |