Example sentences of "only [noun sg] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My only worry is that , with the ground drying up , they might go so fast that he gets disheartened . |
| 2 | ‘ Her only worry is that you might not . ’ |
| 3 | Our only worry is that this re-organisation might be used as an opportunity to cut funds to the police . |
| 4 | My only worry is that I 'm turning him into New Boy with an unhealthy interest in housework . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's such great fun that , as Harry Secombe said , your only worry is that someone will knock on your door one night and say , ‘ I want it all back . ’ ' |
| 6 | My only worry is that the majority of your classes would be in French . |
| 7 | His only worry is that the 500 official tickets he will be getting will not be enough . |
| 8 | My only worry was that I suspected Charlie had never bothered to pay any tax in the first place . |
| 9 | I tried again , saying we were trying to decide how many of us could get to this wedding and we wanted to look smart , but the only response was that he did n't want to hear anything about weddings , thank you . |
| 10 | ‘ The only defence is that John Major was not told . |
| 11 | The only defence is that the estate agent took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence . |
| 12 | ‘ My only excuse is that I was pretty exhausted after my stay in the Middle East , and not totally reorientated after being awakened after such a short sleep . |
| 13 | My only excuse is that Bob Nichols ’ heart attack came as a shock . |
| 14 | My only excuse is that I love Paige very much , and I always protect those I love . |
| 15 | ‘ My only excuse is that it was a traumatic incident and I was in shock . ’ |
| 16 | Her only excuse was that it had happened so quickly — too quickly . |
| 17 | The only change is that Metrologia will now market them as MI486 boxes , based on Intel technology . |
| 18 | The only difficulty is that thespians are not , on the whole , accustomed to making up their own lines . |
| 19 | I think the only difficulty is that bound not the Boundary Commission , the erm , Charities Commission who er , have very awkward rules about things , which er , they could still er , still try to resolve . |
| 20 | The major television stations , in looking towards a mass audience , will inevitably focus on more dramatic events and issues in their depiction of the subject , and one 's only hope is that such depictions will be balanced and sensitively written . |
| 21 | ‘ The only hope is that a new party will emerge and change everything , ’ says a typically frustrated businessman . |
| 22 | My only hope is that we shall never have to use it against the Seven . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Our only hope is that enough toys are produced so that the same problems will not arise . ’ |
| 24 | For the Tory Opposition , the only hope was that the Bill might be delayed ; that , with the delay , the working man would come to realise that , if the Bill became law , he would have been wholly disenfranchised ; and that , with the realisation , the lower classes would unite with the aristocracy to secure the rejection of the proposals contained in the Bill and their replacement by others much more modest . |
| 25 | The only constraint is that the information is ‘ off the record ’ which means the source of the information must remain anonymous . |
| 26 | ‘ Their only disadvantage is that you ca n't take the painkillers with them . |
| 27 | Its only disadvantage is that it will project the curtain fixture further into the room and when the curtains are open the batten will be visible . |
| 28 | Its only disadvantage is that it is n't as quite as easy as plugging in a coprocessor card . |
| 29 | Outgoing FAXES are produced in much better quality than normal FAX machines as there is no ‘ scanning ’ of the original document — the only disadvantage is that you can not send an existing document , unless it has been previously sent to you , or you key it into Word processing or Desk Top Publishing . |
| 30 | The only disadvantage is that the final sample is unlikely to have exactly n members though this may not be very important . |