Example sentences of "only be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then the shadows moved again , and Lugh could see that there was nothing there at all , and that he was nearer now to Tara than he had thought , and after all it had only been a trick of the light . |
| 2 | He had only been a stop-gap , to fill in after Father Collins 's long , thirty-five-year ministry and the appointment of a permanent successor , if there were to be a successor . |
| 3 | Edward recalls this attitude clearly among the Swindon-Welsh cronies of his paternal grandmother : ‘ They used to remark how well my father was doing , my grandfather who had long been dead having only been a fitter ’ . |
| 4 | as if all the work of the past four months had only been a dream , the cutting and the drilling , the painting , the moulding of the lead wire . |
| 5 | In his anguished soliloquy on awaking from what he thinks has only been a dream , we see that the hypocrite has lost for ever the advantage he has had over other people . |
| 6 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
| 7 | At the time of writing , the situation had become a lot calmer , though it had only been a couple of weeks since Stan received his first injection . |
| 8 | But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's quick , Mrs Goodbody , ’ said Annie , ‘ it 's only been a couple of days . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's only been a couple of days , ’ said Joe . |
| 11 | And in the same you know , I mean er two or three years so there 's not gon na be much , and it 's only been a couple that are gon na |
| 12 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 13 | He had only been a councillor for nine months but had been very diligent and effective . ’ |
| 14 | There 's one thing about it , only been a year old the heating is in good condition , you 're warm in there . |
| 15 | it 's only been a university now for about sort of ten year well not even that , five or ten years I think . |
| 16 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 17 | He told me later that he had only been a guard for fifteen months , also that the normal takings on this section of the line were approximately £10 , so he was only too pleased to work out a 26% discount for a group booking that realised BR £77.35 from our party . |
| 18 | But Conservative Coun. Peter Jones said the bill would have only been a fraction of that if the controlling Labour group had taken action when defects in the building were detailed in reports in 1985 and 1986 . |
| 19 | He realised it had only been a bait for which he had fallen . |
| 20 | It had worked with Billy , truck driver and reluctant witness — but Billy had only been a rehearsal for this , the main event . |
| 21 | Since he has only been a director since last May , Wanless is untainted by the strategic mistakes of the past regime . |
| 22 | You 've only been a reader for 32 years . |
| 23 | It had only been a glimpse , but it had been enough . |
| 24 | It had only been a shot in the dark ; playing a hunch really , but Johnny 's face reddened and he looked momentarily discomfited . |
| 25 | It has not only been a victory for Mr Major : it has also put an end to the leadership crisis Mr Heseltine created in 1988 . |
| 26 | In 1855 , when the first railway line was opened from Howrah , there had only been a collection of huts and sheds on the site . |
| 27 | I have seen Colonel Steiner 's medical record and note that it 's only been a matter of weeks since he was gravely wounded . |
| 28 | One of the boys said later there had only been a tin of cat food and a bus pass and an old purse with a pound and a key in it anyway , and that they would n't have had to hit her if she had n't clung so hard to her handbag . |
| 29 | It 's only been a week since I was here , and she was in perfectly good health then . ’ |
| 30 | Because the memories plaguing her were sending her quietly crazy , and it had only been a week since she had been out of his company . |