Example sentences of "be only [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But colleagues , five years ago I looked forward to the merger between G M B and Apex and predicted by the year two thousand there would be only four major unions in Britain , call them the four super unions . |
| 2 | However , if homogeneous expectations and portfolio opportunities are assumed there will be only one optimum portfolio when the market is in equilibrium . |
| 3 | There seems to be only one feasible solution that could bring lasting peace . |
| 4 | He is optimistic , naturally , on the basis of sales growth in the earlier stores , but there will be only one new store in the US this year . |
| 5 | There may appear to be only one suitable candidate for the job . |
| 6 | If one affirms that there is and can be only one ultimate and self-sufficient principle , the transcendent Father , and also that the divine Triad is three distinct realities ( as Origen had taught ) , it is not easy then to affirm that the Son and the Father are in being identical or ‘ of one substance ’ — not at least without fairly complicated explanations . |
| 7 | There can be only one all-powerful creator and sustainer of the world . |
| 8 | There will be only one right decision in the unique circumstances of each unique one of the three travellers , as there can be only one right prediction of it . |
| 9 | There will be only one right decision in the unique circumstances of each unique one of the three travellers , as there can be only one right prediction of it . |
| 10 | Yet , the one does not preclude the other : this course would be only one extra input into Christian Aid 's existing funding of action/reflection in the Third World . |
| 11 | The Bill is contemptible in practical terms because , when it is debated in Committee , there may be only one Scottish Member on the Committee . |
| 12 | Surprisingly , there appears to be only one English decision which deals with the trading-in of motor vehicles in part exchange , even though it is such a commonplace everyday experience . |
| 13 | A corollary of this , it is claimed , is that there really can be only one fundamental existent , for if there existed more than one , then the individuality of each would , at least in part , depend upon its relations with others , and hence none could strictly be regarded as ontologically independent . |
| 14 | He told a news conference after the meeting : ‘ We must all agree that there should be only one nuclear state ’ in the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , apparently referring to Russia , which holds about 17,000 nuclear warheads . |
| 15 | At a concluding press conference the Russian Foreign Minister , Andrei Kozyrev , stressed that it was essential that there be only one nuclear successor state to the Soviet Union , since otherwise there would be " a radical geostrategic change in the world " . |
| 16 | Most speakers would agree , I think , that Mary wore a red dress and Mary wore a blue dress were contraries ( assuming , of course , that they refer to the same occasion , and that Mary , as would be normal , wore only one dress at a time ) ; the colour terms refer to the predominant colour of the dress , and there can be only one predominant colour . |
| 17 | But if this is possible , the conclusion must be that , basically , there can be only one ontological existent , and that all properties are merely qualities — or , using more convenient words , " states " or " modifications " — of that one existent . |
| 18 | There can now be only one statutory succession after the death of a statutory tenant . |
| 19 | There seem to be only two possible explanations . |
| 20 | Indeed the adjective must be so understood ; if we try to imagine using , in the structure of ( 16 ) , an adjectival property which is not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase ( nor helping as a qualifier to identify any entity of the sentence ) , there will be only two possible outcomes : If it is a property semantically compatible with the verb , the result will be taken as an ungrammatical way of expressing a thought which should have incorporated an adverb : ( 17 ) Alastair likes his beef tea great Alternatively , it will be a property that is not compatible with the verb either ; but , in that case , there will be no way of guessing what that property should be applied to — it will in effect be semantically " loose " , so that the whole will be incomprehensible : ( 18 ) the process left the documents puzzled Thus , the property of the adjective qualifies , in purely syntactic terms , the inner grouping of verb and object ; it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase , but not directly , only as part of an interlocking structure with three elements — as in certain engineering and architectural structures , each of three elements needs the other two in order for the whole to function effectively . |
| 21 | In 1975 Dr ( later Lord ) William Marshall , the country 's leading champion of nuclear power , lamented before a House of Lords ' committee that at the current rate of progress there might be only two fast reactors on line by 2000 . |
| 22 | My work this year is very much on the ground — there will be only two abstract things — or three at the most — all the rest is objective — as objective as I can make it … |
| 23 | Today there may be only 5,000 left , and the total is shrinking all the time . |
| 24 | The services need not be only professional medical or nursing services . |
| 25 | She would be only half alive without him . |
| 26 | He appeared to be only half listening . |
| 27 | His fit seemed to have abated , but he appeared to be only half conscious . |
| 28 | Secondly , and by much the same token , we would condemn any suggestion that there is merit in regulation almost for its own sake : our justification for regulation can be only some real need to prevent what is unfair or damaging . |
| 29 | There appears to be only three front ranking firms not involved and therefore not covered by the ban — CL-Alexanders Laing & Cruickshank , Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers and Hoare Govett . |
| 30 | However despite the great variety of demi-caractère ballets staged since 1789 there appear to be only three main sources of gesture which contribute to a particular style for a particular ballet . |