Example sentences of "[prep] be only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cognitive therapy has sometimes been accused of being only applicable to the ‘ intellectual ’ client . |
| 2 | Beautifully situated on a sunny mountain plateau high above the Inn Valley , and surrounded by flower filled meadows , Igls is a charming and peaceful village with the bonus of being only four miles from Innsbruck , the lovely capital of the Tyrol . |
| 3 | Regarding the bladder and rectum , Hunter was especially precise : ‘ Instead of being only 10 minutes about this Process you must be ½ an Hour to an Hour about it . ’ |
| 4 | Everywhere in Bali the atmosphere is leavened by the experience of being only half of this world . |
| 5 | She coped well with the peculiar pressures of being only an honorary man in a male world . |
| 6 | ‘ Or is that the whole point of being only ‘ temporary ’ ? ’ |
| 7 | This was different , a need deep inside , a feeling of being only half a person without him . |
| 8 | Despite being only a facelift of the current range , the new Polo manages to lose its tired old image — and it comes not a moment too soon , says Andrew Frankel |
| 9 | In the first twenty-year period , 1951 to 1971 , the News of the World had carried the vast majority of the rape cases which were reported anywhere in the national press ( despite being only a weekly paper ) . |
| 10 | The heroic care Anthony Moore spoke of is only available at a price . |
| 11 | Secondly , it is submitted , and evidence is adduced to support it , that the breach complained of was only technical . |
| 12 | Maxim was fit enough himself but , he thought wistfully , there 's no medicine like being only twenty-five . |
| 13 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |
| 14 | The Commissioners ' powers , unlike the Registrar of Companies ' , come into being only after registration . |
| 15 | A great deal has happened since the Financial Reporting Council and its three attendant bodies came into being only a short time ago . |
| 16 | How sad it is to behold how little importance life has for nature , these myriads of creatures called into being only to be immediately destroyed . " |
| 17 | It does not come into being only when instantiated . |
| 18 | The 16-member Mainland Affairs Council had itself come formally into being only the previous month , when the Executive Yuan on Oct. 18 approved its constitution . |
| 19 | This suggests that make expresses antecedent causation , since it evokes a process of causation giving rise to a state of affairs that comes into being only at the end of the process . |
| 20 | But still he could n't cope with being only ordinary . |
| 21 | Far from being only slightly shy of great faith we 're almost completely unpractised in the art of letting God be God . |
| 22 | Hence subject to the constraint that where Ro is some pre-assigned value of R. The integration can be extended over the whole 3N-dimensional configuration space by setting whenever the inequality ( 6.10 ) is satisfied and otherwise , and writing Mark off showed that , far from being only a device to select the correct region of configuration space led to a new interpretation of the probability density function |
| 23 | It became apparent , however , that apart from being only a highly persuasive authority , Wagon Mound would not apply in all situations . |
| 24 | Such a balancing act could keep his government in being only by increasing his own reputation for lack of principle . |
| 25 | Many of the pubs which are passed off as ‘ historic ’ to the visitor and tourist prove to be only film-set facades on what are now little more than youthful amusement arcades or glorified fast-food cafes . |
| 26 | It can be quite painful , for the insider is studying his own social navel , with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts . |
| 27 | Consequently they are said to be only suitable for the rarified world of HQ where men with no ‘ bottle ’ and the non-combatants have fled . |
| 28 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If BA can resell $300m of its United investment — ideally to US citizens - then its remaining equity share could be said to be only 21 per cent , airline officials in New York argue . |