Example sentences of "be only [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those calves which are only coughing and/or tachypnoeic are usually in the prepatent stage of the disease or have a small adult worm burden and treatment of these animals should result in rapid recovery . |
| 2 | A good rule of thumb is that a model may be considered a potential hit if at least half its base area lies under the template , while models whose bases are only touched or grazed can be ignored . |
| 3 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |
| 4 | er people that have behaved more er better you know they , they may be only fined or whatever and er although it 's a revolution , I mean it 's a rise of an association of a a power to sort of , to erm to counteract landlord power so become this sort of balance almost . |
| 5 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 6 | It 's only washed and ironed yesterday . |
| 7 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 8 | More generally , the emphasis was on securing a ‘ speeding up of the system ’ and ‘ to ensure that development is only prevented or restricted when this serves a clear planning purpose and the economic effects have been taken into account ’ . |
| 9 | Whenever they let a letter pass , it is only to encourage and watch for the answer . |
| 10 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 11 | Equally inevitably , Tinnock was only penalised and not sent off . |
| 12 | Perhaps normally it was only hidden and distorted by the combered flesh , the yellowed eyes and teeth . |
| 13 | The Conservative Party , which dominated the National government , operated a policy of ‘ appeasement ’ to which there was only limited and fragmented opposition from within its ranks . |
| 14 | When Queen Praxis tells Riddler , ‘ You are so adamantine and impermeable , ’ I could hear W C Fields sweetly explaining , ‘ I was only fooling and pretending . ’ |
| 15 | A defence of this kind , a claim that the purpose was only to frighten and not to cause harm , requires the full definition to be put to the jury . |