Example sentences of "be only [verb] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are men who toil because work is a pleasure to them and there are others who toil because work is a duty ; but the great majority of men are only stimulated to labour that in amount or character is distasteful to them , by the hope that they may be able , in the first place , to maintain themselves , and secondly to marry and maintain a family … |
| 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 | " I 'm only authorized to say that the aircraft has been prepared for friday . " |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Ulimo officials on Aug. 25 professed to be committed to the ECOWAS peace initiative and claimed that their forces were only fighting to ensure that the NPFL abided by the Yamoussoukro agreement . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The time-honoured method has been by urine testing , but with the renal threshold in the not so elderly being of the order of 10 mmol/1 glycosuria is only going to occur when the blood glucose is in double figures . |
| 10 | Whenever a child is created , it is only added to OPEN if it is not already in OPEN or CLOSED . |
| 11 | He was only allowed to work provided he did so during reasonable daylight hours . |