Example sentences of "[is] only [prep] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course you 'll have to , ’ Father Devlin boomed cheerfully , ‘ it 's only to be expected . ’ |
| 2 | Overall sound quality is good , without the dulling and squashing side effects that some products can produce ; pumping can be provoked in the hard ratio mode by extreme settings , but that 's only to be expected . |
| 3 | " And Martha 's the same , it 's only to be expected at her age . " |
| 4 | ‘ Well , that 's only to be expected . |
| 5 | On this occasion , Murphy 's skill can only be admired visually , and the real force of his audience 's response is only to be guessed at . |
| 6 | It is only to be hoped that dispersals of any kind are restricted on the most severe criteria , and that money for acquisitions , storage and , perhaps most important , staff for cataloguing is not stinted . |
| 7 | High-speed , hood-down progress is only to be undertaken with all windows up as otherwise the wind whips round the side and into the cabin . |
| 8 | Censorship is only to be exercised in accordance with the law of the land |
| 9 | Most of the companies in the top 10 are small and fast-growing , which is only to be expected — after all , it would be extraordinary for ICI to double its earnings . |
| 10 | So a certain weariness is only to be expected . |
| 11 | ‘ A little nervousness is only to be expected when you 're starting a new job ’ |
| 12 | This is only to be expected . |
| 13 | Muddles in language often occur ( as is only to be expected ) in the petitioner 's question rather than in the jurist 's answer . |
| 14 | The striking thing about cases such as these is not that they failed — that is only to be expected — but rather that they contain suggestions that a proper claim might meet with success , although difficulty might attend mounting it . |
| 15 | But again , this is only to be expected on a cheap new instrument ( and not unheard of on new guitars costing ten times as much ) and easily fixed . |
| 16 | This is only to be expected , since the Brasserie has been set up along similar lines to L'Auberge ( i.e. it has the same staff ) . |
| 17 | The poems are of course cleverly written but that is only to be expected of a writer of John Bitumen 's calibre . |
| 18 | Resistance is only to be expected . |
| 19 | Such a connection between newspapers and political parties is only to be expected ; newspapers have traditionally wished to play a part in the political system and have never been reluctant to express a view ( ‘ The Sun says ’ ) on the ways of the world . |
| 20 | Businessmen are complaining loudly , as is only to be expected . |
| 21 | He was himself a member of the prince 's council , and although he is unlikely to have played much part in its activities this is only to be expected from a nobleman of his rank and does not mean that he remained aloof from the king 's plans for the region . |
| 22 | This is only to be expected , for the management of a client 's account is the management of an advertising agency in miniature . |
| 23 | This latter result is only to be expected : the Tories have assiduously cultivated the image of the defender of the ‘ national interest ’ as opposed to the supposed trade union ‘ sectionalism ’ of the Labour Party , and militant ‘ class conscious ’ organisations within the middle classes have never made much headway ( John Gorst 's ‘ Middle Class Association ’ for instance ) . |
| 24 | Imbalance of this sort is only to be expected ; for we are very human and our understanding is limited and our perspectives often determined by what has particularly struck us . |
| 25 | Judicial misinterpretation is only to be expected where radical reform is introduced . |
| 26 | On the industry budget , regional selective assistance , which is led by demand on the part of applicants for assistance , is expected to be down next year , which is only to be expected in the present economic circumstances . |
| 27 | He was himself a member of the prince 's council , and although he is unlikely to have played much part in its activities this is only to be expected from a nobleman of his rank and does not mean that he remained aloof from the king 's plans for the region . |
| 28 | But speculative source-study can reveal more about the reading of the scholar than about the actual text whose possible sources are the object of the exercise and , after all , it is only to be expected that those who share a faith will also share a way of expressing it . |
| 29 | It is only to be expected that these two rather different techniques , the Doppler shift technique and the " chirp radar " technique , would be useful for different special purposes . |
| 30 | Since each is a little different from its parent , it is only to be expected that each will be slightly more different from its grandparents ( and its grandchildren ) , and even more different still from its great grandparents ( and great grandchildren ) . |