Example sentences of "[am/are] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The briefest of smiles took flight from her lips to her eyes , and away , leaving her portentously grave again ; and with careful , frowning concentration she said in English , her bright , light , child 's voice forming the words as gingerly as a novice using an untried weapon : ‘ Oh , no — I am only Catherine . ’ |
| 2 | When I listen to my radio I am only marking time . |
| 3 | well , I er it it I am only reading what er their joint statement said . |
| 4 | ‘ I am only cold , ’ I said . |
| 5 | ‘ So why do you call me Sir John , when I am only John Durbeyfield ? ’ |
| 6 | By simplifying and emphasizing the features of major strokes we can make them easier to teach but paddle strokes are only copies of the real thing . |
| 7 | It is vital to realise that while such values and those of the other culture are only perceptions , such perceptions make up a social reality . |
| 8 | ( b ) Reject those words which obscure rather than clarify meaning-words which are only present for purposes of style , linguistic sense , grammar , or form . |
| 9 | This procedure will tend to remove features which are only present on individual images , while retaining those features which are common to all images . |
| 10 | They are only clothes , after all . ’ |
| 11 | Painting the figure , of course , continues apace , practiced by those who have devoted lifetimes to it and by those who are only beginning . |
| 12 | Even man 's dwellings — whether palaces , thatched mud cottages or high-rise blocks of concrete flats are only variations upon the human theme of a ground-based structure possessed of walls and a roof . |
| 13 | It must correctly motivate the 40% of the EC 's farmers who are only part-timers : that means that any income subsidies must be geared , however partially , to production . |
| 14 | As he explains , ‘ Those immediate objects of perception , which according to [ some ] … are only appearances of things , I take to be the real things themselves . ’ |
| 15 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 16 | Most women are dissatisfied with their bodies and feel that they are only approximations . |
| 17 | We stress that these are only proposals . |
| 18 | However , this view was challenged since ideologies are only resources to draw upon and not some kind of categorical imperative that governed decisions . |
| 19 | They exist in a mirror world where they are suspended in a liquid like molten glass , and these images when seen from the mundane are brilliant but they are only mirror images of reality . |
| 20 | Speaking at the funeral of UVF victim Jim Peacock , the Bishop of Connor , Dr Samuel Poyntz , said their ‘ bestial and barbaric acts are only mirror images of PIRA bombers and murderers ’ . |
| 21 | In his sermon he said that their ‘ bestial and barbaric acts are only mirror images of IRA bombers and murderers ’ . |
| 22 | It is part of life but er wha sa so is death and so is schooling , and so is education , and and all these issues are social , social issues , they are only problems when there are n't the resources to help support people who need support . |
| 23 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 24 | As Saussure says ( 1974 : 120 ) , ‘ in language there are only differences without positive terms ’ . |
| 25 | Broadly speaking , Derrida 's rigorous and far-reaching exploration of the implications of Saussure 's claim , that ‘ in language there are only differences without positive terms ’ , leads him to question the key concepts of structuralism ( in particular , sign and structure ) and its methodology ( as represented by poetics and semiology ) . |
| 26 | Even mass and solidity are only sense perceptions . |
| 27 | but the top she could wear with like , she 's got , well it 's only cotton you see , shorts are only cotton |
| 28 | These are only descriptions . |
| 29 | Another chap , he 's a big name in a church in Buckley he was a an old neighbour of ours and I never liked cos he used to himself with a bowler hat on they are only back twenty years , you know , bowler hats ! |
| 30 | Leaders are only leaders because they have followers ; no leader can for long ignore the views of followers ; and the absence of overt party constraints on leaders should not blind us to the fact that leaders need to anticipate the reactions of their followers if they are to retain a measure of needed support and loyalty . |