Example sentences of "[be] only [adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the worst features of research in the drug industry is the work which needs to be done to make and test products which are only marginally different from existing ones . |
| 2 | Some forms of text ( notably transcriptions of spoken language ) are only notionally divisible into multiple levels of structure . |
| 3 | Some countries ' currencies are only partially convertible into other currencies and their use for specific purposes , e.g. overseas investment , might be restricted by the central bank . |
| 4 | Additionally the ADC-10 can perform many functions that are only currently available on expensive digital storage oscilloscope such as saving waveforms to disk , or sending them to a printer . |
| 5 | These two techniques are primarily intended for use in table searching in main storage , and are only incidentally usable for direct files ; it is worth noting that they are intended to eliminate the order-preserving properties of division , while using division as a convenient randomizing algorithm . |
| 6 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
| 7 | Far from being only slightly shy of great faith we 're almost completely unpractised in the art of letting God be God . |
| 8 | It has already been noted that Kandyan and Roman-Dutch criminal law were only briefly valid in British courts . |
| 9 | This is only partly attributable to technological improvements . |
| 10 | The work role is only partly determinative of social existence . |
| 11 | This technique is only directly applicable to fixed-length records . |
| 12 | It is only too easy for British students of public policy to lose sight of the importance of these issues . |
| 13 | Racism like this is not faced by whites , and is only too everyday for black people in a highly xenophobic society , and this has terrible effects on their everyday lives . |
| 14 | This was only partly due to organisational weaknesses ( size of authorities , confusion about accountability ) negating effective contributions from members with appropriate expertise . |
| 15 | I was only ever interested in abstract art . |
| 16 | The difference between a two-hundred-guinea suit and a five-hundred-guinea one was only too obvious at close hand . |