Example sentences of "be only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been only philanthropy , would it have felt like it did ? |
| 2 | The inflammation was where there had been only skin and bone before . |
| 3 | This is reflected in the annual subscriptions , which have been only £10 for family membership , and £2 for a junior membership . |
| 4 | Negotiable instruments , however , have never been only trade-related . |
| 5 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 6 | Had it been only Ben he had seen , or had he been able to look out , however briefly , on the world of the future ; her world ? |
| 7 | France 's new government has hinted it will be more willing than its predecessor to accept freer farm trade , along the lines agreed abortively between the EC and America late last year , but so far there have been only hints . |
| 8 | Certainly , prices of fuel doubled in the later sixteenth century although this may have been only part of the general inflation . |
| 9 | Subscriptions increased rapidly throughout the inflation-sick 1970's , so much so that in 1970 the men 's subscription had been only £28 but by 1980 was £126.50 + V.A.T. ( In 1960 it was £14 and today ( 1986 ) is £165 + V.A.T. ) . |
| 10 | The solo rate would have been only £28 . |
| 11 | It may have been only perception — but the customers were put off and that 's what mattered . |
| 12 | In our own time it has been only fascists , racists and their ilk who ha–e felt the urge to slaughter vast numbers of people whom they have regarded as different from themselves . |
| 13 | He knows what shots sound like because he hunts , but he still thinks they might have been only firecrackers . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | When I listen to my radio I am only marking time . |
| 16 | well , I er it it I am only reading what er their joint statement said . |
| 17 | ‘ I am only cold , ’ I said . |
| 18 | ‘ So why do you call me Sir John , when I am only John Durbeyfield ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ( b ) Reject those words which obscure rather than clarify meaning-words which are only present for purposes of style , linguistic sense , grammar , or form . |
| 22 | This procedure will tend to remove features which are only present on individual images , while retaining those features which are common to all images . |
| 23 | They are only clothes , after all . ’ |
| 24 | Painting the figure , of course , continues apace , practiced by those who have devoted lifetimes to it and by those who are only beginning . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Most women are dissatisfied with their bodies and feel that they are only approximations . |
| 30 | We stress that these are only proposals . |