Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [is] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 2 | The normal bass roll-off of -6dB by 38Hz is low enough to lend a convincing weight to the majority of signals and if the bass seems initially a little ‘ polite ’ to some ears it is only because it is tight , with little or no hangover — the dual coupled-cavity technique really does give a positive ‘ start and stop ’ throughout its range . |
| 3 | I mean it 's same with Marks and Sparks , you buy owt at Marks and Sparks it 's only because when they have them packed , they 've got to put their name on it . |
| 4 | She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open |
| 5 | In order to maintain this circadian rhythm it is only necessary that one protocerebral lobe and the ipsilateral medulla externa and lobula should be in nervous connection with the thorax . |
| 6 | The daily routine is disrupted only by extreme weather and by the rut , and even during the rut it is only the males whose activity is much changed . |
| 7 | Livermore said : ‘ He 's a clever footballer who has made tremendous strides , bearing in mind he 's only 18 . |
| 8 | From Saint-Jean-de-Luz it is only seven miles to the Spanish frontier . |
| 9 | From our site in Old College it is only a few minutes walk to Parliament House , where the highest criminal and civil courts in Scotland sit , and to the local Sheriff and district court . |
| 10 | Apart from the side it 's only hardwood at the sides . |
| 11 | D'ye ken he 's only thirty-seven ? |
| 12 | I 'm beside myself with worry , C.W. She 's only wearing a T-shirt and jeans . |
| 13 | Thus for technicians and draughtsmen it is only 11 per cent . |
| 14 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 15 | A very young kid goes out for a walk with his parents he 's only ever seen cats and dogs before they go |
| 16 | In the summer the monarch is distributed from Mexico to Canada , but with falling temperatures it moves south , and in the winter it is only found in Mexico and the southernmost United States ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 17 | The videotaping of the child 's statement comes at a crucial point in that process but for the child it is only one part of it . |
| 18 | In addition , the rate of the tax varies widely from state to state — the standard rate in Ireland is 23 per cent whilst in Spain it is only 12 per cent . |
| 19 | Thus , for a specified sub-domain it is only necessary to consider and assemble those primitives that intersect with that space . |
| 20 | we asked for space , and they said oh mid April , and that actually is the next schedule step down action and that 's going to be on Europe and that 'll run from April till June , erm but from now till April if anybody would like to write the country which is Chile and this is because they 're , they suppose that they have extend the death penalty in Chile to include the murder of an off duty police witnesses , at the moment it 's only erm , the death penalty only exists for on duty police officers |
| 21 | At the moment it is only available commercially , so until the happy day when we can all buy it , I suppose I 'll have to continue meeting resident weevils in my bathroom . |
| 22 | ‘ At the moment it is only a feeling of mine ; a hunter 's suspicion . |
| 23 | Good job he 's only going on his own then in n it ? |
| 24 | If there were not this evidence that at this point he is only hazily in command of what he is doing , we might ask — though to no purpose , I think — whether Eleanor 's fiddling of her uncle into the see of Canterbury is presented to us for our approval , or the reverse . |
| 25 | Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ . |
| 26 | So fractions it 's only sharing . |
| 27 | Within the space of this article it is only possible to review a very limited range of these beautiful Basslets . |
| 28 | If I should wander into the uncharted minefield of personal opinion it is only with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 29 | From Larne along the famous Antrim Coast Road it is only 14 miles and Ballymena is the same distance inland . |
| 30 | Because actually the village of Keele would be under Nutton It 's only the University that he 's got under his chaplaincy . |