Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pers pn] is only " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 2 | As explained earlier when describing the model of living and the model for nursing , the 12 ALs are interrelated ; so too the body systems as categorised by the human biologists are interrelated and it is only for the purposes of description and discussion that they are dealt with separately . |
| 3 | The name is unfamiliar but it is only what its name implies : the capital liabilities that have been discharged , in this case , by repayment of loans . |
| 4 | This is covered by David Robinson in Chapter 7 and it is only necessary here to emphasise the need for some of the partners ( and to a lesser extent senior managers ) to allocate time to financial control and administration . |
| 5 | Whether or not the purchase price is an appropriate or indeed adequate upper limit is arguable but it is only in rare circumstances that a vendor will agree to a higher limit . |
| 6 | The appropriate tax rates are then applied to calculate the total income tax due and it is only at this stage that the MIRAS system is introduced into the assessment . |
| 7 | The body is by nature very resilient and it is only years later that the symptoms of misuse emerge . |
| 8 | Our body is very resilient and it is only after years and years of mistreatment that it finally says , ‘ I ca n't stand this any more . ‘ |
| 9 | Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories . |
| 10 | In the 1960s and 1970s , the growth in households has been concentrated largely among non-married couple households : the number of those headed by a married couple has remained relatively constant and it is only expected to grow by one million in the period 1961 to 2001 . |
| 11 | Although Bob 's command of Serbo-Croat is non-existent and he is only at the early stages of learning Russian the Causevics ' second language — he has enlisted the help of a friend , native Yugoslav Maria Delahunty , to act as an interpreter . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The issue is far more complicated and it is only fair to note that we have not reached a stage of knowledge when we can easily say what explains the status of women among the different peoples of the world . |
| 14 | In this case the business of the subsidiary , ie recruitment agencies , is continuing and it is only certain offices that are being closed . |
| 15 | ‘ The basic idea originated in Siberia in the 1950s but it is only since the Cold War ended that people in the West have realised the potential of ideas such as this . ’ |