Example sentences of "[is] only [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's only partly paid for by government and social services and Michael has no other income |
| 2 | It 's only just cooked on the fire . |
| 3 | After all , she 's only just heard of it herself . ’ |
| 4 | She 's only just moved to Berlin so I do n't know much about her — these provincials … |
| 5 | It 's only just occurred to me erm , somebody mentioned that new members of staff , and the support staff ever since , but it need n't necessarily be arrive . |
| 6 | It 's only just dawned on me now how he 's got to that . |
| 7 | It 's only just dawned on me , he conned me into posting his mail . |
| 8 | Erm it 's a difficult balance , change is very rarely popular and quite often it 's only ever talked about but sometimes it happens and even then it 's not popular but a balanced and open mind is required to approach change but perhaps more important , and this is n't always mentioned , suggestions about change tend to come from rather specific areas and there are rather specific interest groups which may start the process of change |
| 9 | Luckily the 1991 YZR500 is only slightly changed from its 1990 specification and Ruggia quickly felt at home on the new machine . |
| 10 | This arrangement denies natural light to the body of the spinal corridors which serve the ground- , first- and second-floor dwellings , giving them an institutional quality that is only slightly reduced by the relief from the cellular treatment of space offered by the lofty entrance lobby and main staircase space at the west end . |
| 11 | Such testing is only indirectly related to providing a measure of particular competencies or curricular objectives and not at all to providing a description of them . |
| 12 | In practice , these boundary conditions are difficult to apply , basically because the condition that M be continuous is only indirectly applied to the functions V and W , or Z , or E , that feature in the main equations . |
| 13 | McClellan provided the definitive judgement many years ago , and it is one which is only partially vitiated by recent developments in local government . |
| 14 | However , Anderson 's loquacity is only partially suggested by the statistics , for the differences in average turn-length between his utterances and those of the other interlocutors are not always very wide . |
| 15 | This is only partly explained by a fall in pupil numbers over the same period — of 17% . |
| 16 | Kelsen insists that ‘ every law applying act is only partly determined by law ’ and presents actual legal systems as a synthesis of formal , static deduction and informal , dynamic determination . |
| 17 | Aggression is only partly caused by leadership style . |
| 18 | His scathing attitude to most of his fellow pupils is only partly accounted for by a difference in age . |
| 19 | The lifetime exposure in area B is only moderately increased at 23 WLM and is comparable with the category less than 110 WLM for uranium miners . |
| 20 | It is only misleadingly expressed as if P then Q , as is now widely accepted . |
| 21 | The hall church is only rarely found outside the realms of Germanic influence . |
| 22 | The cleavage line is only rarely retained in adult insects but some species have a similarly situated sulcus of different morphological and functional significance . |
| 23 | It would appear that oral lichen planus is only rarely associated with coeliac disease . |
| 24 | This is only well developed on the seaward side of the windward reef of atolls . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The strand of the overall Whitehouse philosophy that was referred to above , and which , perhaps , is only implicitly suggested by the two examples discussed , is the particularly vulnerable position which , she feels , young people occupy , especially with regard to the pernicious influences of the mass media . |
| 27 | The course is only loosely related to the Pimlico Connection scheme , but 15 students each year choose tutoring in schools as their fieldwork for the course . |
| 28 | Often the continuing desire to use drugs is only marginally tempered by the impact of the heavy cost of drugs and regular brushes with the law . |
| 29 | However , the force of the overall argument is only marginally affected by this modification . |
| 30 | Zinc ( 13 µM ) in gastric juice has not been measured previously , but most zinc is only weakly bound to albumin in plasma and this probably explains why the zinc concentrations in gastric juice are higher relative to copper . |