Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [is] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In either case the patient should be reassured that this is only a temporary measure . |
| 2 | We know that this is only a small proportion of the people who are unemployed in this area but we hope we have made their Christmas a little bit more enjoyable . |
| 3 | It must be stressed that this is only a possibility ( and that the explanation has been very much simplified ) , but more and more researches are showing that it probably approximates to the truth . |
| 4 | It should be emphasised that this is only a tentative illustration . |
| 5 | He achieves this by taking a central pillar in this tradition , Kant 's concept of the aesthetic as distanced contemplation which transcends the immediacy of experience , and demonstrating that this is only a single perspective , that of the dominant class . |
| 6 | It should be remembered that this is only a qualification on the foreign business carve-out ; if the investment business from the non-UK office with customers in the UK falls outside the carve-out , because it actually constitutes regulated business , the general COB Rules will apply in the normal way . |
| 7 | On the other hand , where severance of the subject matter is envisaged under the contract and property is to pass at this time , it is possible to argue that this is only a sale of goods ( see Kursell v Timber Operators and Contractors Ltd [ 1927 ] 1 KB 298 ) . |
| 8 | And that is only a small part of a litany of hood-related sorrows . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll not even get to Reggane and that 's only a hundred and sixty kilometres into the desert . ’ |
| 10 | And that 's only a few of the things that 'll be making their Megatape debuts on the front cover of COMMODORE FORCE ! |
| 11 | Imagine Sun Ra and his Arkestra fumbling through a version of Funkadelic 's ‘ Maggot Brain ’ while a backbeat of earth-shaking dub hardcore metal and jazz squeal swirls in the distance … and that 's only a fragment of Praxis ' power ! |
| 12 | Well the majority of them are a , abused or get thrown out of mental centres , I mean , some of them just run away from home because they want to and that 's only a minority , lots of them have |
| 13 | There 's a stretch-steel tension in the normally soothing make-up room , where nine intently concentrating make-up girls are tending the terrified contestants — and this is only a dress-run . |
| 14 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 15 | I agreed and I put him under training for Mosquito , and to the best of my knowledge ( and this is only a guess ) he did over 70 sorties , got himself at least one DFC , if not two , and became a very worthwhile member of the Pathfinder Force . |
| 16 | They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things . |
| 17 | But that 's only a palliative . ’ |
| 18 | You see something advertised like ‘ The Four Seasons ’ : well , everyone knows the famous bit , but that 's only a quarter of it . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , but that 's only a technicality . |
| 20 | ‘ But that 's only a hundred and fifty a week . ’ |
| 21 | But that 's only a story . |
| 22 | ‘ In another location I would probably have a full dining room every night , but that is only a part of what is important to me . |
| 23 | This can be seen throughout Formen in his struggles with the word ‘ property ’ , but that is only a beginning . |
| 24 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 25 | The heads of the different divisions might feel that it should be so but that is only a claim of ego and emotion . |
| 26 | But that is only a small part of the single currency argument . |
| 27 | But that is only a relatively short term thing again , and that period will consist |
| 28 | There is every reason for more unmarried mothers receiving maintenance from the fathers of their children ; but this is only a small part of the problem . |
| 29 | It seems a pity that the gun does not come with a reflector nozzle ( to work near window panes without cracking the glass , for example ) , but this is only a minor point . |
| 30 | But this is only a first step to scientific study , and two questions naturally follow : having found D what use is it ? |