Example sentences of "[pers pn] are only [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean you and I are only friends ? |
| 2 | So maybe I 'll start off , maybe memories after you are only plans , start off with some positive plans . |
| 3 | Oh well , you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities . |
| 4 | We must get the situation straight that the County Council is the ruling authority , we are only a subsidiary as a county and we get our problems on our traffic and our highways as we are only agents to the County Council , and the County Council control the education of Social Services . |
| 5 | That is , we are only producers in an economy of symbolic goods like any others . |
| 6 | They are only clothes , after all . ’ |
| 7 | Within the British political culture it is rare for workers ( even manual industrial ‘ proletarians ’ ) to consider the wholesale expropriation of the property of another class as a reasonable political option , but if the financial institutions insist they are only guardians of the people 's savings then why should the ‘ people ’ not call them to account ? |
| 8 | Most women are dissatisfied with their bodies and feel that they are only approximations . |
| 9 | It is part of life but er wha sa so is death and so is schooling , and so is education , and and all these issues are social , social issues , they are only problems when there are n't the resources to help support people who need support . |
| 10 | But although they are only thoughts in our minds , by the very design of our experiments we project these patterns onto the ‘ outside ’ reality and therefore either fail to see anything else , or are confused when observations do not fit our inward mind patterns and expectations . |
| 11 | They are only shadows , she said firmly to herself . |
| 12 | They are only words , but how terrible they are ! |
| 13 | ‘ But they are only pieces , Roger . |
| 14 | When I see these Islands in sight of each other , & possessed of but a scanty stock of animals , tenanted by these birds , but slightly differing in structure & filling the same place in Nature , I must suspect they are only varieties . |
| 15 | They are only babies ! |
| 16 | But for all that , they are only parts of the political system , and in the chapters that follow we will be attending to the significance of other things . |
| 17 | Or you and he are only friends ? ’ |
| 18 | Most of us are only amateurs . |