Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [is] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six months , and you 'll be , three fifty , and she 's only just started getting three quid . |
| 2 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 3 | Housewife Vanessa MacMahon , 38 , whose three-year-old daughter Katharine has leukaemia , said : ‘ You can phone Katharine 's doctor at any time with any problem and she is only too glad to help . |
| 4 | And there 's only about three marks for it anyway so . |
| 5 | because the bolts actually go up between the plate and the glass and there 's only that much space so |
| 6 | We are hopeful that there will be no surcharges levied whatsoever on the cost of your holiday — but obviously fuel costs , currency movements and governmental action are outside our control , and there is only so much that we are able to absorb . |
| 7 | The Doctor manages to steal and activate the Time Destructor , but although the Dalek invasion force is wiped out Sara ages to death before his eyes , and he is only just rescued by Steven . |
| 8 | And he 's only here ‘ coz the tax man came sniffing around . |
| 9 | And he 's only relatively recently gone back to work . |
| 10 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 11 | And it 's only just just lately since I split with the wife er I took a couple of months to sort myself out . |
| 12 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And it 's only about two or three five marks . |
| 15 | Cos it 's , and it 's only about two and half . |
| 16 | Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes . |
| 17 | The debate is a profound one and it is only just beginning to reach out to a wider audience . |
| 18 | Most of science is built up on good solid craftsmanship and it is only rarely that the occasional blinding flash of world-shattering importance ever really occurs . |
| 19 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |
| 20 | Notoriously young children learn very quickly how to recite numbers in the right order without having any clear notion of their " cardinal " properties , and it is only gradually that they begin to associate their respective positions in the number series with a relation of magnitude . |
| 21 | Not only does it tend to concentrate on psychic inner experience at the expense of the spiritual , but it inflates one 's pride in having some superhuman power that others do not possess , and it is only too easy to overstep the boundary between the neutral psychic and the evil occult . |
| 22 | The old adage that you only get out what you put in becomes very meaningful and it is only too easy to miss an employee out of a list because a code has been entered incorrectly or because information is inconsistent . |
| 23 | The constant movement of troops through these areas caused great economic dislocation for the local populace and it is only recently that a number of Civil War ‘ hoards ’ have been found . |
| 24 | Today is the actual anniversary of the tragic night in Tottenham when Eubank crushed Watson — and it is only recently that the Islington fighter has started to make a real recovery . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , early ethno-methodological writing was almost wilfully obscure and very difficult to obtain , and it is only recently that more accessible texts have become available . |
| 26 | Some additional information has emerged but , unfortunately , mouse chromosomes have not responded well to the high resolution techniques developed for human chromosomes and it is only recently that a higher resolution idiogram has been published ( 14 ) . |
| 27 | Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories . |
| 28 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 29 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 30 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |