Example sentences of "[be] only [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean all our be , all our bedroom ones are only just on and they 're red hot ! |
| 2 | You 're only here once so you 've got to try and make the most of it and enjoy life to the full . ’ |
| 3 | We 're only together tonight because you put us both on the same invitation . |
| 4 | Furthermore it is possible for a high degree polynomial to be only slightly better than a low degree one ( even a straight line fit ) , whereas the higher degree fit will certainly require much more effort . |
| 5 | Sometimes service charges will have been paid on account in advance , and sometimes the 'service charge year " will be only halfway through and a balance will remain payable by the seller to the landlord or management company and the precise amount will not be ascertainable as at the date of completion . |
| 6 | It 's only later on when they 're more experienced that they can actually say , well hang on a minute I can do more for this person and I 'm going to do more for this person . |
| 7 | It 's only just recently that we sort of starting our de we 've had bits of aggro . |
| 8 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
| 9 | Yes I 'm I 'm not quite sure the regulations are about subsids We , I mean we , it 's only quite recently that we have had a subsidiary , erm , last two or three years , we 've , for many years we did n't have one . |
| 10 | It is only quite lately and now that we are able regularly to get strengths which are a large fraction of the theoretical value , that it has become really important and worthwhile to make materials with very strong chemical bonds . |
| 11 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 12 | It is only relatively recently that the imbalance has been corrected and this has been mainly due to oil from the North Sea , resulting in import savings and export earning . |
| 13 | However , it is only comparatively recently that feminists have begun to raise the issue more generally within the women 's liberation movement . |
| 14 | It is only comparatively recently that they have all been brought together . ’ |
| 15 | A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them . |
| 16 | Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories . |
| 17 | Although there has been intermittent interest in this area since that time , it is only more recently that there have been suitable techniques for more effective study . |
| 18 | At a United Nations sponsored meeting in Amsterdam in 1989 the international community agreed that industrialised countries should allocate 4% of overall foreign aid to population programmes , but in 1991 the average amount given for population assistance was only slightly more than 1% . |
| 19 | It was only later on that she started protesting strongly , and by then it was too late , he was close to coming . |
| 20 | However in nineteen thirty s nineteen forty seven this was n't actually realizing , it was only later on that they saw the incompatibility of the two aims . |
| 21 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |
| 22 | ‘ Manchester United offered me a contract that was only just better than the one I was on at Ayresome Park . |
| 23 | Enough was only just enough and Ireland took a perfect record on to their second pool engagement against home town favourites Hong Kong . |
| 24 | She did love Alexander , deeply and passionately , and suddenly it seemed quite natural to say so , in spite of the fact that it was only so recently that she had dared to look her love in the face . |
| 25 | In addition it was only very recently that the company had the expensive machinery necessary to translate some of the more sophisticated effects she wished to produce , and even this was being constantly updated . |
| 26 | At the Council in the Marches of Wales the line between the duties of the Queen 's Attorney and the Queen 's Solicitor was only very faintly and uncertainly drawn . |
| 27 | It was only much later that I realised the reason for the request and also for the resulting laughter , namely the enjoyment of a broad Somerset accent which had come with me , and traces of which can still be recognised by West Country people nearly seventy years later . |
| 28 | It was only much later that it hit me and that was more shock than something could happen again . ’ |
| 29 | It arrived about two months after the news about my father , although it was only much later that I was told what was in it . |
| 30 | It was only much later that Alexei 's mystery sickness was connected with the Chernobyl explosion . |