Example sentences of "[is] only [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Bush 's old agency , the CIA , suddenly produced the trial 's only real , live agent to blow apart a key assertion : that Noriega had fallen out with the cartel after his troops destroyed a state-of-the-art cocaine laboratory in Panama . |
| 2 | These were Alexander II 's only real choices , but before he decided between them the notion of tying the provinces more closely to the centre had to be ruled out of court . |
| 3 | Brain , the team 's only international , has been on the point of resigning both as a player and as the club 's salaried steward , and his decision will not be known until today . |
| 4 | There 's only certain perfumes I can wear . ’ |
| 5 | pointed out how tag questions there 's only certain structures you can put them in , that were going to direct it rather than proper questions say someone who 's asking all proper questions , is he going to use as many tag questions anyway ? |
| 6 | That 's why it 's only black people who will put an end to racism ; our whole experience tells us that . |
| 7 | which will cost a thousand pound and there 's only black and while . |
| 8 | Mothers often recount how embarrassed they feel and that if they try to ignore their child 's screams in town then other shoppers make comments like ‘ Oh , give him a sweet , he 's only small ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's only small , but she 's got a big heart and that 's what counts , ’ said Roberts . |
| 10 | She 's only small . |
| 11 | And it 's only small helpings because you can come for more , okay ? |
| 12 | Oh yes I 'd should think she 's only small . |
| 13 | But David 's only part-time anyway is n't he ? |
| 14 | ‘ It 's only young Will Davies , dropped his bowl on the floor by the sound of it . ’ |
| 15 | He 's only young and has a satisfactory record as far as I can see . |
| 16 | I could boss him around because he 's only young ! |
| 17 | I mean , she 's only young is n't she ? |
| 18 | E T , come on , he 's only young your chap is n't he ? |
| 19 | Do you think it 's only noticeable cos you know ? |
| 20 | ‘ He 's only drunk because he was worried , ’ Arthur said . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's only civil , after all . ’ |
| 22 | Well , it 's only polite to say whether if you |
| 23 | She sorts out the vests trying several against the doll and saying , ‘ It 's only halfway up her ’ . |
| 24 | There 's only instant , I 'm afraid . |
| 25 | It 's only metallic silver , grey . |
| 26 | It 's only standard practice ( you 'd get the same treatment were we to interview you ) and has nothing to do with fawning over ‘ stars ’ . |
| 27 | The only surviving issue is a granddaughter , Margaret , commonly called the Maid of Norway , offspring of Eric II of Norway , who married Alexander III 's only surviving daughter . |
| 28 | Florence reports under 1016 that English counsellors decided upon the exile of the much-respected ætheling Eadwig , Æthelred 's only surviving son by his first consort , and that Cnut , exulting at their abandonment of him , plotted his murder by promising honours , dignities and favour to the nobleman Æthelweard in return for Eadwig 's head . |
| 29 | Throughout the session I 'm the one required to do all the talking and there 's only intermittent participation from the therapist . |
| 30 | There 's only global versus local processing above that A and B only make sense when seen together . |