Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] be only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can see I do n't need to explain how this parcel of land is only a few hundred yards from the newly designated railway lines . |
| 2 | On the contrary , the rules of Equity are only a sort of supplement or appendix to the Common Law ; they assume its existence but they add something further . |
| 3 | Erm , so I agree with you that the metaphor of ascent is only a metaphor . |
| 4 | If we recall what was said earlier regarding the trend in primate evolution which promoted the visual sense over that of smell and prehensile agility over terrestrial quadrupedalism , we can readily see that the definitive adoption of a fully upright posture in man is only the culmination of this much more general evolutionary tendency . |
| 5 | ‘ The future potential is enormous and the work to date is only a fraction of what could be achieved . |
| 6 | Under siege from termites , goats , mice , rainstorms and — on a final stopover in Rome — thieves , the precious pieces of paper were only a little more vulnerable than the author himself . |
| 7 | Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded . |
| 8 | In this mode the quality of the picture on screen is only a representation of the saved image . |
| 9 | The return to use of the substance or behaviour of addiction is only the final stage of relapse . |
| 10 | The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards . |
| 11 | Our experiments with Zeta are only the first milestone along what may be a longish road , and we can not see the end of the road . |
| 12 | Overall , getting computer records submitted as evidence in court is only the first aspect of the evidential requirements companies need to address when implementing an electronic documentation system ; getting the court to accept the contents as adequate proof , or a good record , is an even more important consideration . |
| 13 | It is now clear that the change in basal-subtracted EC 5 on eradication plus healing is only a mathematical consequence of the fall in gastrin driven basal acid secretion . |
| 14 | Whilst the , the London Region speakers come into the rostra I 'll just make the point , Peggy in fact is only the third women that 's spoken this morning . |
| 15 | Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) . |
| 16 | Like the thought-stopping procedures the creation of pain as a means of distraction is only a short term means of interrupting intense , worrying thoughts which occur repeatedly . |
| 17 | In chapter 1 , for instance , we considered the effect which different theories of understanding might have on certain sceptical arguments ; and a theory of understanding is only a theory of meaning under another name . |
| 18 | The benchers of the Inns of Court are only the agents of the judges in calling to the Bar . |
| 19 | Using the time after one has gone to bed can avoid interruptions ; 10–15 minutes per child is only a small time out of the whole day and it needs to be given high priority . |
| 20 | The initial change in Singer from shuddering zombie to desperate fighter for life is only the first of several metamorphoses — all caught with bravura vividness in Antony Sher 's phenomenally versatile performance . |
| 21 | In this sense the claims of poststructuralists about the materiality of language is only the flipside of their claims about life being a ‘ text ’ . |
| 22 | He had got into an argument in the wash room with Clive Fairbrother , an Australian exchange student a year older than him whose sense of humour was only a few degrees away from sheer malice . |
| 23 | The suggestion of sleep is only a metaphor ; the subject does not actually drop off but keeps his attention focused on the hypnotist 's words instead . |
| 24 | His unusual topic gave Fry trouble with the title of his lecture : ‘ The mere fact that we have no word to designate that body of studies which the Germans call Kunstforschung — a body of studies of which the actual history of Art is only a part — is significant . |
| 25 | The discovery of general laws of structure is only the first step in an interpretive process . |
| 26 | I shall be suggesting in Part Two that the basic idea of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ , and of all value , arises similarly from what feels good or bad to us , and that here again this good and bad which is demoted to the role of what only feels so is ultimately the value which is really there in the world , besides which the good and bad of our social construction of reality is only a kind of useful fiction . |
| 27 | In both cases the idea of purpose is only a metaphor , but we have already seen what a fruitful metaphor it is in the case of genes . |
| 28 | This is not to say that older men do not take on the role of ‘ carer ’ , nor that the perceived threat to independence is only an issue for women . |