Example sentences of "[pron] be only [verb] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'm only authorized to say that the aircraft has been prepared for friday . " |
| 2 | ‘ I know you are only trying to help but the sooner we get this over with the better . |
| 3 | Recently there have been determined efforts to reduce our food surpluses , but we are only starting to learn that river and land management require careful thought before instant expenditure of money . |
| 4 | Moreover , in 1973 one deputy minister of foreign trade described the deficiencies in Soviet marketing as follows : ‘ While we were only beginning to understand that before entering the marketplace we had to study it , determining which machinery could or could not be supplied where , as well as how to organise the work involved , capitalist firms had already created a whole science to deal with the question , coordinating production , advertising and commercial activity into a single discipline ’ ( N. Smeliakov , Novy mir , 12 ( Dec. ) 1973 , 216–17 ) . |
| 5 | Whereupon , the Crown Prince hastily intervened to say that ‘ we were only bound to attack if leaders and troops were fully confident of success ’ . |
| 6 | Twitty , who was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins , has had more than 40 Country and Western hits , including the No.1 success , It 's Only Make Believe and Mona Lisa . |
| 7 | Whenever a child is created , it is only added to OPEN if it is not already in OPEN or CLOSED . |
| 8 | He was only allowed to work provided he did so during reasonable daylight hours . |