Example sentences of "[pers pn] be only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them are only followed for the first pitch , either because they finish up easier slabs ( which might well suit some people ) or become much harder . |
| 2 | And again , when reporting on the A & B Foursomes in January 1969 , he started as follows : ‘ There must be an increased number of wives who are convinced that there is a special weather dispensation for Harpsden , or it may be , of course , that many of them are only too glad to get the old man out of the house for a few hours on a wet Sunday . ’ |
| 3 | The dye garden may look as though it is full of weeds , but most of them are only wild plants under another name . |
| 4 | Some of them are only fighting because they think they 've got nothing left to lose . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I mean most of them are only there cos there finding it hard with the mortgage . |
| 7 | This is fun I like talking into This diagram shows the reach or an airline distances are in kilometres the figures for them are only rough one , a jet flies from Beirut |
| 8 | ‘ But Mr Carson and I are only in New York for a year , ’ Mrs Carson pointed out . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean you and I are only friends ? |
| 10 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 11 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 12 | In the same letter to Katkov Dostoevsky also claimed that the murder was itself the merest peg ; ‘ I am only taking the accomplished fact ’ ; and he went on to assert that the human type ‘ which corresponds to this crime ’ was the creature of his imagination . |
| 13 | I am only surprised that , suddenly , it 's so many . ’ |
| 14 | I am only trying to mind my own business and I do n't know whether I can prevent the compulsory purchase order . ’ |
| 15 | But then the saying adds : ‘ If I am only for myself , what am I ? ’ |
| 16 | I am only sixty-four ! |
| 17 | I am only 19 and there are lots of years ahead of me . |
| 18 | ‘ I know I am only 20 , but some days I feel about 30 so much has happened to me . ’ |
| 19 | I am only worth being used . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't want to say too much as people will think I am only concerned because if the new rules come into force it will mean Shelford ca n't play for us next season . |
| 21 | Tension can be created either by the sponsor 's subtle , superior position of detachment : ‘ I am only here to describe the problems ; you are the ones who will have to face them ’ , or , quite differently , a hint of ‘ I know more than I am going to tell ’ , or its cruder version : ‘ I am doing a good salesman 's job and you are going to fall for it ’ . |
| 22 | I am only insisting first that this need not be the only justification for the power ( the normative power ) to commit oneself , and second , that one encourages reliance through knowingly undertaking an obligation . |
| 23 | You will understand that I am only acquainted with the members of the Institute who come here regularly — who , in essence , are the ones who work in this area . |
| 24 | I am only using jumping as an example . |
| 25 | ‘ I am only a dancer , and I 'm too old now even for that . |
| 26 | She told us : ‘ Although I am only 27 years old , I have very strong feelings regarding the war . |
| 27 | I am only guessing because we do not talk about things like that . |
| 28 | I think I am only saying that anyone who has followed the history of this controversy over the last twenty years will already see reason to think that the friction produced by quarrelling among good causes is enormous and it is a luxury that we simply can not afford . |
| 29 | You see I am only a Feldwebel and I have no ulterior motives at all . |
| 30 | I am only interested in getting your name back to the Red Cross as soon as possible so that your mother and father will be saved unnecessary worry . |