Example sentences of "[is] only a " in BNC.
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| 31 | IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams . |
| 32 | The resort centre is about half a mile away and it 's only a 5 minute walk to the sandy beach . |
| 33 | There is a vast choice of discos , bars and restaurants practically on your doorstep ; it 's only a 100 metres walk to the main avenue of the bustling resort and a variety of discos and bars surround the hotel . |
| 34 | after sun soaking on the sandy Levante beach , it 's only a 200 metre walk to the hotel . |
| 35 | It 's only a short stop to the sand and pebble beach where watersports are also available . |
| 36 | The nearest beach is just across the road and it 's only a 5–10 minute walk to the centre of Benitses with its all-action nightlife , bars and restaurants . |
| 37 | It 's only a two minute walk from our other Club bases , the Amarilis and the Rhodos apartments , so you always have the opportunity to meet other holiday makers and join in the fun . |
| 38 | If you want the beach or watersports , it 's only a 20–25 minute walk . |
| 39 | It 's only a short stroll to the beach and seven minutes from the ‘ Street of Much Music ’ with its bars and restaurants and Heaven , the disco . |
| 40 | It 's only a ten minute ride from Bodrum by dolmus — which will cost you about 25p . |
| 41 | Situated in a secluded setting , yet only 100 metres from the beach , the hotel is ideal for waterlovers as it 's only a five minute walk to Ortakent 's watersports facilities and beachside tavernas . |
| 42 | But what does matter is that relegation of drama to the same order of non-seriousness as game , revellings and disportings , permitted an ‘ it 's only a game ’ attitude — both dismissive and tolerant — to creep in . |
| 43 | And of course , the hurt as Vygotsky suggests would immediately be tempered by the pleasure of knowing ‘ it 's only a game ’ . |
| 44 | Gillham continues to argue that just as the participant is protected from physical hurt by the parameters of ‘ it 's only a game ’ , so the same protection applies to psychological hurt . |
| 45 | ‘ But I think it 's only a rumour . ’ |
| 46 | It 's only a whale . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ Every time I got them involved with the story , ’ Hopper explained , ‘ I 'd come back at them and say , ‘ Ha , ha , it 's only a movie … ’ ’ |
| 48 | He 's only a pauper that nobody owns . |
| 49 | ‘ It 's only a short walk to the hotel . |
| 50 | Both can be seen as genuine attempts at making something out of nothing , attempts at getting something even if it 's only a laugh out of a life which , in many cases , by 16 has already run into a collection of brick walls labelled ‘ unemployment ’ , ‘ shit jobs ’ and ‘ routine brushes with the Law ’ . |
| 51 | The most common exclamation is ‘ Och , it 's only a crow ’ . |
| 52 | It 's only a matter of time before we will see a Centre Centre , where the visitor can enjoy a fascinating audio-visual presentation of the large varieties of Centres throughout Scotland . |
| 53 | ‘ You 'll not even get to Reggane and that 's only a hundred and sixty kilometres into the desert . ’ |
| 54 | But they say it 's not very difficult if you know how , as it 's only a fun do , not affiliated or something , when you 'd get struck off or something terrible . ’ |
| 55 | Well , it 's only a short distance , I know — you could have done it in less than five minutes in the daylight — but we wo n't see eleven o'clock again . |
| 56 | Anyway , it 's only a small house ; where would you go ? |
| 57 | The river 's only a hundred yards wide there . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ Steady on mate , ’ he shouted , ‘ that 's got to last all day , and there 's only a gallon in that jar . ’ |
| 59 | The mind reels at such extremes of scale , yet the man responsible dismisses it lightly : ‘ It 's only a bit of fun . ’ |
| 60 | It 's quite easy to find — just go down the road by the river — no , not towards the station , the other way — it 's only a mile or so . |