Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] [noun sg] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 2 | The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake . |
| 3 | But the absence is in fact only a dissimulation , for etymologically the word ‘ between ’ is a fusion of ‘ be ’ and ‘ two ’ . |
| 4 | Even the most complex four coloured jacquards is in reality only a basic slip pattern , where colours are changed every two rows . |
| 5 | Nature is an reality independent of mind , man is in fact only a small cog in the machine . |
| 6 | The church is in fact only the north aisle of what was intended to be a mini-cathedral . |
| 7 | It has been claimed by some that the apparent warming trend was in fact only a reflection of the " urban heat island effect " , because most of the records come from cities . |