Example sentences of "and [pron] is only " in BNC.
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| 1 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Take that form literally and there is only one winner on Saturday as Bonanza Boy is bound to have come on for the outing . |
| 4 | The exact interpretation is not simple , however , since the previous mandatory scale referred to minimum fees and there is only limited evidence relating to the level of mark-up which existed above these . |
| 5 | Almost all senior judges are men , for instance , and there is only one woman in the Court of Appeal . |
| 6 | If you walk into a room full of strangers and there is only one person in that room whom you know , you will immediately see and recognise that person , however many people are in the room , because here is something which interests you — your human oasis in a desert of unfamiliar faces . |
| 7 | It certainly has something of value to offer and there is only one way to find out whom it will suit ; try it ! |
| 8 | Equation ( 6.22a ) can immediately be integrated to give ( 6.24 ) and there is only one main equation , namely ( 9.3 ) , which is a linear equation in V . |
| 9 | We become lonely when we mind being alone , and there is only a thin borderline between the two . |
| 10 | Instead , labour and jobs are heterogeneous , labour markets are segmented and there is only limited mobility of factors of production between markets ; many firms have some degree of monopoly power in the product markets ; many workers are organised into trade unions ; and there is imperfect information . |
| 11 | The pound is losing its value because of the collapsing British economy and there is only one party , and one man , to blame for that : |
| 12 | There is a wonderful opportunity for a limited number of ( loud and enthusiastic ) Amnesty members and supporters to be part of the audiences for The Big Three-O and there is only one catch — you have to wear a fancy dress costume reflecting the fashions of either the 60s , 70s or 80s . |
| 13 | Lecointre ( unpublished memoir , DEA , University of Paris VII ( 1989 ) ) has examined sequences of 361 nucleotides of the 5' extremity of 28S rRNA and found that there are only two base-pair positions , out of 361 , common to lampreys and hagfishes : and there is only one position uniquely shared by lampreys and gnathostomes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | … though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ , yet there is for us only one God , … and there is only one Lord . |
| 16 | It is a Forestry Commission area , intensively patrolled for fire and there is only one single track road leading to the beach from the village where any nocturnal traffic might cause suspicion . |
| 17 | If accepted , then the short-run Phillips curves disappear and there is only the vertical location on the long-run one to argue about . |
| 18 | Clever Folly has made great improvement this season , winning three of his five races and he is only 1lb out of the handicap . |
| 19 | All this , and he is only 40 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Shylock says himself that it is not only a Jewish teaching , it is also a Christian 's way of thought , and he is only doing what a Christian would do : ( Act 3 , Scene 1 , lines 54–55 ) |
| 22 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 23 | A star of the chess world at just ten Jay Stockham is already a star in the world of junior British chess and he is only ten . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And it is only a patch ! |
| 26 | One of the problems with not getting killed climbing while still young is that you reach such a great age that your standard falls mercilessly , and it is only possible to relive great exploits by reading about yourself in guidebooks . |
| 27 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She does not become criminally liable merely by assisting her husband to escape punishment for a crime which she knows him to have committed ; and it is only within certain limits that husband and wife are competent , and within narrower limits that they are compellable , to give evidence against one another , in criminal proceedings . |