Example sentences of "are only the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like running on damp nights like last night because the streets are mostly empty , there are only the dogwalkers trailing past trees and lamp-posts , patiently disowning their pets . |
| 2 | If these forecasts are correct , and they of course ignore the inertia of the system , and the immense social capital invested in cities , then the population and employment changes revealed by this chapter are only the precursors of a massive recolonization of the countryside , not only in the UK but also the USA ( Fisher and Mitchelson , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | But it is not entirely fair to blame this tendency on sociolinguistic methods alone , since sociolinguists dealing with gender-related variation are only the heirs of a lengthy sexist tradition in the study and lay discussion of male and female speech . |
| 4 | Now many people seem to think that technology means machines and equipment , but machines and equipment and the software that run them are only the products of technology . |
| 5 | Those are only the qualities he looks for in the people who work for him , though . |
| 6 | He might well exclude old statutes like those forbidding contraception , however clear and precise these might be , if they are only the relics of long-abandoned policies , if they represent no contemporary political decision and therefore serve no useful role in coordinating social behaviour now . " |
| 7 | The benchers of the Inns of Court are only the agents of the judges in calling to the Bar . |
| 8 | This survey shows that the present lanes and cottages are only the remnants of an extensive settlement occupying at least 28 hectares ( 70 acres ) . |
| 9 | But these are only the outcrops of a conviction which underlies all his teaching about his own mission . |
| 10 | There are only the men whose dust you can see . |
| 11 | According to pragmatism what we call legal rights are only the servants of the best future : they are instruments we construct for that purpose and have no independent force or ground . |
| 12 | The images that we make are not themselves beautiful , they are only the cages in which we trap the living birds and butterflies of beauty . |
| 13 | The world is a treasure house of free delights ; beyond music and poetry are painting and sculpture and these are only the arts ; the joys that come from the mystics compared to those from the arts are like seeing masterpieces instead of prints . |
| 14 | Then it was discovered that they are only the larvae of a very well known animal . |
| 15 | For , as he says in the introduction to his essay on the tales of Henry James , ‘ criticism seeks to interpret a particular work , while structuralism , for its part , is a scientific method implying an interest in impersonal laws and forms , of which existing objects are only the realizations , ( 1973 : 73 ) . |
| 16 | These clearly are only the beginnings of a full European social dialogue . |