Example sentences of "[adv] and it [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 2 | The resort centre is about half a mile away and it 's only a 5 minute walk to the sandy beach . |
| 3 | Some of the barriers I 've built up are going to be chipped away and it 's only going to take one incident and I 'm going to be stuffed . |
| 4 | The news that Amstrad Plc had a hot new personal communicator product on the way should have been in the market for a couple of weeks now — we reported it on March 1 ( CI No 2,117 ) but these things take time to filter through and it was only on Tuesday that the shares really began to respond , putting on 3.75 pence ; they added another 3.5 pence to 34.75 pence yesterday morning . |
| 5 | Seriously , though , shortcuts rarely work properly and it 's only half an hour 's work to get the job done . |
| 6 | It 's back to the day ward now and it 's only 10.15 a.m. 7 more patients will follow her today . |
| 7 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |
| 8 | Scales arrived back and it was only then that Wycliffe want into the office . |
| 9 | Then I spent three years there and it was only three weeks after I 'd left that I was offered the part of Russell in Butterflies . |
| 10 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 11 | Amy failed to monitor someone 's blood-pressure adequately and it was only because Kathleen bothered to check that a potentially life-threatening internal haemorrhage was detected in time . |
| 12 | ‘ Every time Subotica looked to have her beaten she came at him again and it was only in the last two strides that she lost . |
| 13 | He wasted no time in looking round and it was only when he was backing the van to drive away that his face could be seen . |