Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] only the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | not know it immediately but if I say , Well what 's X plus seven times Y minus five or it 's only the same it 's exactly the same rules |
| 2 | And it 's only the tawny owl who goes tu-whit-tu-whoo . |
| 3 | That 's what 's shameful in our society and it 's only the Labour Party in unison with our movement that can right the wrongs of the past fourteen years . |
| 4 | The analyses of the multiple choice versions suggest strongly that many pupils were guessing and it is only the non-multiple choice versions which are reported here . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The innermost group consists of eight satellites , including the four Galilean satellites , and it is only the outermost Galilean that is shown in Figure 9.1 . |
| 7 | erm I was driving past it learning to drive , concentrating like mad and the driving instructor er , said to me , and it was only the second what , second , third , fourth lesson , it was early on in the |
| 8 | Protest was silenced and it was only the new mood of glasnost in the second half of the 1980s which revealed the full extent of what had happened . |
| 9 | And it was only the brave pleading of hostage Barbara Brady that persuaded him to hand the ammunition over , the Old Bailey was told . |
| 10 | The emphasis on the moral strength and spirituality of women was a central strand in the social purity campaigns of the late nineteenth century ; and it was only the maternal instincts which allowed a woman to subject herself to what was conceived of as the almost ungovernable lust of men . |
| 11 | Indeed , one of Paul 's first actions was to issue a bull denouncing the alienation of ecclesiastical property , and it was only the considerable diplomatic efforts of Pole that eventually persuaded him to exempt England from its provisions . |
| 12 | But it is only the young man . |
| 13 | This would imply that the majority of mustards are hot , but it is only the English mustard that is really fierce . |
| 14 | Nassim winced at the sound of breaking glass from the bathroom , but it was only the remaining splinters of the old stuff coming down . |
| 15 | In his newly exalted position , Jenkins may come to choose his words more carefully , but it was only the other day that he was saying ; ‘ There is no doubt we are poor ; it 's no good pretending we are not . |
| 16 | London 's Evening Standard was moved to add fuel to the fire and proclaim ‘ this year , the long knives were out ’ , but it was only the tall tales that were really in evidence . |
| 17 | But it was only the sensational Jamie , twirling a diamante choker on his index finger . |