Example sentences of "[is] only " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Keepers can have the one off season … to be fair this season AFAIK he s only made the one ‘ howler ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ … there s only one Gordon Strachan … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ) |
| 4 | They 've liaised with other organisations to make sure I 've got somebody coming in , even if it 's only to make me something to eat . |
| 5 | There 's only one solution , and that is to destroy the picture . |
| 6 | Besides , there 's only one for the top of the class . |
| 7 | Your first Equity card will be a provisional one ; to become a full member you need to have worked for at least 30 weeks , not necessarily consecutively , Nevertheless , it 's only realistic to assume that you may face longish periods of unemployment and to be prepared to deal with this constructively . |
| 8 | ‘ In which case , ’ Arabella Buckley pronounced sturdily , ‘ there 's only one thing for it . |
| 9 | It was all right for Annabel — she 's only six , and as long as she can feed sugar to the milkman 's horse every morning she 's happy . |
| 10 | Just then one of Father 's secretaries , who was standing right behind me , said , ‘ Such purity of line , do you notice , even when she 's only showing that sweet child how to curtsy . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's only a first-year lecture . |
| 12 | It 's only a little thing , anyway . ’ |
| 13 | I want to discuss this with my superiors , but I think it 's only fair for me to say that it may well be difficult for us to keep you here . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's only temporary , ’ I kept telling myself . |
| 15 | You 'll have to go into a local hostel temporarily — but that 's only so they can check on a few things . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's only just up the road , and besides , they take your money off you in Amsterdam . ’ |
| 17 | They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things . |
| 18 | I could have said anything , made an excuse , but I wanted to be straight and it 's only making things worse . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's only what they all said . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 ! … ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Graham emphasised the fact that the breed needs plenty of mental exercise , too , even if it 's only basic obedience training . |
| 23 | Raskolnikov is one of the others , though it 's only through the long crime-and-punishment process that he comes to understand this : he had ‘ wanted something more ’ — more than our mere-existence rain . |
| 24 | It 's only in the Crime and Punishment notebooks that we read ‘ Love and Sonya broke him ’ . |
| 25 | It 's only afterwards , in the Epilogue , that we learn with surprise and perhaps some vexation that repentance and acceptance of suffering come to him not then but much later , in prison ; his confession was not the decisive moral feat we took it for . |
| 26 | Hatred of Jews is something that the Fascist is especially prone to , but it is n't a necessary consequence of his Fascism , and in any case it 's only a symptom , certainly not the root cause of his disease . |
| 27 | But he stressed : ‘ It 's only an idea , not a proposal , and it needs a lot more work . ’ |
| 28 | It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days . |
| 29 | Inflation was running at 11 per cent in 1981 , but it 's only around 8 per cent today . |
| 30 | It 's only dirty play if there is intent there . |