Example sentences of "only [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This however has only been the position since 1968 . |
| 2 | For Guido , she realised , had only been the catalyst that had finally forced her to confront her true feelings for Arnie . |
| 3 | Curtis recalled that it had only been the resourcefulness of the two kids and the fortunate intervention of the trucker Jube , that had saved his friend that night . |
| 4 | The socially constructed relationship between age , gender and the labour market has not only been the cause of poverty in old age , but has also formed the basis for the spread of a more general dependency among older people and age discrimination in many aspects of public policy and social attitudes ( Walker , 1990 ) . |
| 5 | The extra ten minutes had probably only been the time it had taken them to find him . |
| 6 | She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again . |
| 7 | And it had only been the rear of the house that had been knocked down . |
| 8 | For not only are the press , radio and TV , in particular , a key part of the organism of a society that endlessly recreates itself : they are also the chief means through which a society observes and evaluates itself . |
| 9 | In British public schools , for instance , not only are the majority of pupils deliberately drawn from that small section of British society committed to the standards which the public school promotes , but teaching staff are similarly rigorously selected , not merely on the basis of academic competence , but also on the basis of the extent to which they have successfully internalised the standards they are expected to foster among their pupils . |
| 10 | Not only are the pub interiors themselves of the nondescript , open-plan kind , but the barn to the rear has been wholly mutilated . |
| 11 | ‘ Only be the brightness of what you are ’ . |
| 12 | The ‘ party ’ of the future could only be the mass of the labouring population , for as he wrote in 1950 , in his self- proclaimed masterpiece : ‘ State Capitalism and World Revolution . ’ |
| 13 | To walkers and climbers the price of continued access to the hills need only be the cost of MCofS membership . |
| 14 | And the chip will still only be the size of a centimetre or two . |
| 15 | If it 's inherited from an estate that of itself er attracts no tax , so there tax position would only be the income that they received from it would be subject to income tax and it would be added to their own assets so that when they die in due course then they 've inheritance payable there . |
| 16 | But the irregular payments for which Stan Flashman 's club were punished may only be the tip of the iceberg . |
| 17 | These figures can only be the tip of the iceberg when we see the low rates of eligibility for maternity benefits and full time participation in the paid labour market for mothers with young children ( S. McRae , Maternity Rights in Britain , 1991 PSI ) . |
| 18 | Greenpeace say that this can only be the tip of the iceberg , as far more arrives clandestinely . |
| 19 | He was right , she thought , gazing into the distance , there were lights everywhere , some from passing ships and others which could only be the shoreline . |
| 20 | my Lord that , that must be right because that would only be the way in which they could give negative clearance , because the clause or the membership rules were inappreciable |
| 21 | Thus , while they should be drafted , so far as possible , to withstand judicial scrutiny , they will only be the subject of litigation in exceptional cases . |
| 22 | It should be remembered that a company can only be the firm 's appointed representative if the firm accepts responsibility for the whole of the investment business it carries on on the firm 's behalf . |
| 23 | This would only be the case if the latter entitled the individual to look to the government for the provision of certain welfare benefits . |
| 24 | Clearly this would only be the case if the company was perceived as an entity distinct from its shareholders so that it followed that the company and not the shareholders would be liable for any debts . |
| 25 | But this will only be the case if the debt continues to be remembered as an unrequited obligation by both parties to the transaction . |
| 26 | It would appear that an obligation of confidence may arise in relation to information which is overheard but it seems that this will only be the case where the recipient has used surreptitious means to put himself in a position to overhear the information . |
| 27 | In the county court , apart from the judge 's own note , there will only be the lawyer 's notes of the decision , and there will also be a written decision from the first instance tribunal . |
| 28 | Rounding the mysteriously named ‘ Kitchen Corner ’ , all thoughts of worms and dragons were blown away , not only be the wind but more by magnificent sweep of Rhosili Bay . |
| 29 | Given the pluralistic nature of society , they can only be the product of hysteria and demagogic manipulation . |
| 30 | It could only be the doctor — and the breakthrough came . |