Example sentences of "there [is] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … there s only one Gordon Strachan … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ im dreaming of a white christmas ’ — also shouts like ‘ souness for sunderland ’ ‘ andy cole — he gets the ball — he scores a goal — andy , andy cole ’ ( or something like it ) ‘ there s only one terry butcher ’ ( well not any more — he left sunderland last week ) |
| 3 | There 's only one solution , and that is to destroy the picture . |
| 4 | Besides , there 's only one for the top of the class . |
| 5 | ‘ In which case , ’ Arabella Buckley pronounced sturdily , ‘ there 's only one thing for it . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's only a few minutes left , they 'll never … wait wait , Steven has it , he 's come from nowhere and yes , he 's going for a shot ! … ’ |
| 7 | On the face of it , the Friend 3 seems the model least likely to benefit from flexibility — the thick stem interferes little with the working of the cams , both designs have the same strength rating and there 's only a few grams difference in weight between them . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's only so much any man can do on his own . ’ |
| 9 | There 's only an hour till the Mass . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There 's only one . |
| 11 | It was another medievalist , under Tolkien 's influence , who gave utterance to the view that ‘ Literature stops in 1100 ; after that there 's only books , ’ but they were sentiments which in a crude way echoed Tolkien 's own position . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah , ’ said Joe Connors , a dark little man who reached forward with spatulate fingers for the corkscrew , ‘ There 's only a few of us left . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There 's only two bedrooms , ’ said the woman . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's only two cartridges in , ’ said Philip . |
| 15 | And there 's only me . |
| 16 | He says : ‘ There 's only two sides , see , winners or losers . ’ |
| 17 | There 's only one sure way to know what one eats , and that is to grow it oneself . |
| 18 | Piggott had replaced McHargue , then sitting out a suspension , on Commanche Run in the Gordon Stakes at Goodwood , which he won by a very wide margin ; and though the stable jockey was back on board for the colt 's victory in the March Stakes on the same course , his preparation race for the St Leger , Commanche Run 's owner Ivan Allan , claiming ‘ There 's only one St Leger and only one Lester , ’ insisted that his close friend Piggott replace McHargue for the Classic . |
| 19 | There 's only one St Leger and there 's only one Lester . |
| 20 | There 's only one St Leger and there 's only one Lester . |
| 21 | There 's only one FA Cup Final , one Wimbledon , one Royal Ascot every season , even though there 's plenty of football , tennis and racing at other times . |
| 22 | He himself , by his own self justifying account , was giving the President the facts and pointing out the alternatives ; North , speaking the language of military tactics , was for ‘ boxing him in so there 's only one way he can go — the right way . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ There 's only an hour to go . |
| 24 | SIR — I like to recall a wry comment on the television programme That Was The Week That Was towards the end of the Tories ' last long period in office during the early Sixties : ‘ There 's only one thing that will make the Conservatives popular again — and that is the next Labour government ! ’ |
| 25 | There 's only one thing less attractive to the media than an angry woman . |
| 26 | In the whole of continental North America , there 's only five hundred and fifty . |
| 27 | There 's only one woman in my life , and that is Sister Bernadette of the Nansen Trust , and when we 're through I 'd like you to ask the office to get her on the phone for me . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's only an old fire extinguisher here . ’ |
| 29 | There 's only so much you can cling to — your credibility , your belief in small cottage industries — whatever . |
| 30 | I said , ‘ There 's only one way to go — right across the out-of-bounds . ’ |