Example sentences of "only be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Of course , you 've only been a frog for a while . |
| 32 | Keeping quiet had not only been an error of judgement , it had also poisoned any chance they might have had of entering into a worthwhile relationship . |
| 33 | Whilst numbers of full-time farmers had fallen by 28% in the past ten years there had only been an 8% reduction in the number of part-time farmers . |
| 34 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 35 | By the end of 1926 , the General Council was advancing the argument , with some justification , that the General Strike had only been an attempt to warn employers that the problems of industry could not constantly be tackled at the expense of the standard of living of the workers . |
| 36 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 37 | Not only are a firm 's existing products vulnerable to cultural change , but it may miss new , lucrative opportunities by not being informed of changes in culture . |
| 38 | Not only are a majority of those retiring today fitter , more skilled and better off financially than any previous generation , but with early retirement increasingly becoming the norm , a great many of us can realistically look forward to 25 years or more of active life ahead . |
| 39 | In some respects , today 's emphasis on women 's rights , literature and issues may not only be a drive to increase women 's standing in relation to men , but may rather be a celebration of the rediscovery of the shared communication that women have . |
| 40 | The small girl who was once told to be a little lady need now only be a girl and , indeed , boyish behaviour is smiled upon in girls for a longer period than the opposite is approved in boys . |
| 41 | It can only be a reliance on public ignorance that can allow the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , and other Tories , to spread lies about the social chapter of the Maastricht treaty . |
| 42 | Remembering that any discourse data to which the analyst has access will only be a fragment , it would be extremely difficult for the analyst to predetermine the complete set of discourse subjects which participants share prior to a particular discourse fragment . |
| 43 | At the same time , since there is an increase in the production of fixed assets , which by definition can only be a part of surplus-value , this means that the volume of surplus-value and its rate begins to increase . |
| 44 | We are only beginning to work out these implications and our chapters of research can only be a base for others to examine in greater detail how our theories work . |
| 45 | But this would only be a story , and would not ring true . |
| 46 | Anything else would only be a repetition . |
| 47 | Alternatively this may only be a change in the precious metal brought about by necessity , and silver coinage may have continued the earlier function of the gold coinage , as bullion . |
| 48 | Dickinson argues for a change in the organisation of the industry as chronologically earlier pairs show less variation than later examples ; this may only be a change in ability and need not relate to changes in the medium used to make models . |
| 49 | The timbers are badly shaped and put together ; such a structure can only be a vehicle for plants and the sooner they cover it the better . |
| 50 | The National Insurance contribution complications would be avoided as there would be no need to pay directors ' salaries as the individual partners would rely on their own shares of profit as their source of earnings and the company partner would only be a vehicle for building up capital . |
| 51 | For primary schools , the National Curriculum can only be a success if authorities use the opportunity of the new funding formulas to increase their staffing . |
| 52 | All the ingenious forms of longer-term borrowing undertaken by the United States from overseas monetary authorities merely changed the form of these liabilities , and could only be a stop-gap . |
| 53 | Given Jacqui 's simple character , it could only be a man . |
| 54 | There would only be a couple of weeks left when he returned before the opening at the Fortune Theatre on 17 September . |
| 55 | I remember coming home and discussing with my wife that another friend that it 'd only be a couple of weeks and we 'd be back to work . |
| 56 | BUT the maximum distance from the where the foul was should only be a couple of yards . |
| 57 | ‘ Madam , my TARDIS may only be a type 40 , but you — ‘ |
| 58 | I am sure this would only be a minority but it is always the minority that spoil it for the majority . |
| 59 | Though since , should he do nothing , then in the way of all these things the news would only be a nine-days ' wonder , she had other matters to concentrate on . |
| 60 | These are things which we already have , and to write about them can only be a celebration of past triumphs , an exercise in quasi-historical complacency : " how the battle for democracy was won " . |