Example sentences of "[is] only [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not , it 's only over a two week period , they 're jammed in , I 'm getting in several days , all I have is three exams
2 As soon as any outbreak of violence , however mild , occurs in society , then damage is done , if it 's only to the social fabric of society , because one or two people can not go about their business , can not go about their pleasure , in the way in which they would wish to .
3 I am a bit annoyed so I said do n't get messed about I said this is the whole point cos if , if you get over there and there 's and it 's only for a bloody week it 'll be annoying .
4 Always close and lock all doors and windows when you leave your caravan — even if it 's only for a few minutes .
5 To protect your bike , always lock it every time you leave it , even if it 's only for a few minutes .
6 It 's only for a few minutes till I buy these and then you can have a turn at walking .
7 Even if it 's only for a few days both you and your baby will benefit .
8 ‘ It 's only for a few days , Elinor , and it 's just an hour and a half away from London .
9 Anyway , it 's only for a few weeks , you said .
10 It 's only for a little while .
11 Er making yourself feel good even if it 's only for a short time .
12 ‘ It 's only for the one night . ’
13 See even if it 's only for the three days
14 But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem .
15 It 's only within the last couple of year , and then oh no you can nae do a certain of the er it was actually our vice president at the started the campaign over in Fife , and they won through .
16 Er er it seems that the Council have known about this for six months er and it 's only within the last week or two er that information has got out so it seems to me that that 's something that er that we ought to take an interest in .
17 They 're competing for access to male pouches , what mammalian males are doing is competing for access to female uteruses because it 's only in a female uterus that an offspring can develop if you 're a mammal .
18 But that 's only in the first year , in the second year erm the percentage will reduce quite rapidly and we 're only spending half the second and third years .
19 For help even if it 's only in the emotional kind .
20 It 's only in the local flats , you know flat
21 So far it 's only in the Daily Mirror and Today . ’
22 Just looked at me saw how I was , prescribed the Tamazapam tablets , and I had a terrible experience with those and that 's only in the last year !
23 It 's only like a little village is n't it ?
24 I , I mean it 's only by the good will of the police that we can get down there and that , , this is , this is my concern Mr Chairman , in , in theory what I would like , if there was a serious emergency , you 'd get a senior officer in here straight away , and I mean he would negate to the police , we have no authority over them , only cooperate with the police .
25 Beattie concludes that it is only during the hesitant phase of a speech cycle that the clause is a major unit of speech planning .
26 Mu Cephei is only of the fifth magnitude ( at least , generally so ; it is somewhat variable ) , so that with the naked eye it is not impressive even though it is actually redder than Betelgeux .
27 Significantly , my own memory is only of the large wave-forms which made such a maelstrom possible .
28 It is large , rich and compressed , but it is only of the eighth magnitude , and I find it very difficult with × 7 and not really easy with × 8.5 or × 12 , though with × 20 it is obvious enough .
29 Premier League chief Rick Parry has been invited but it is only for the 14 clubs .
30 This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it .
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