Example sentences of "[be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy has been only an equivocal success . |
| 2 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 3 | There had been only piecemeal policies of denationalization in 1979–83 , and indeed the Conservatives had been reluctant to replace state monopolies with privately-owned ones . |
| 4 | It did not seem to occur to him that Ramsey had been only eighteen months in an important job for which he was perfectly fitted . |
| 5 | Although the discontinuity in economic policy from the Heath Cabinet ( 1972 — 4 ) is remarkable , there has been only one dissenting resignation from her Cabinet , partly on grounds of her style as well as policy ( that of Mr Heseltine over Westland in January 1986 ) . |
| 6 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 7 | They would have been only too happy to accept the maximum . |
| 8 | Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays . |
| 9 | IBM 's revenues from mainframe processors in calendar 1988 may have been only about $12billion , but sales of peripherals ( $11billion ) , software ( $8billion ) and maintenance ( $7billion ) should be added to this . |
| 10 | He has been only six weeks at the helm . |
| 11 | Had the attendance of the third party been only two , the Treasurer would have eaten his half-cake at that party alone . |
| 12 | A demand for dolphin meat for human consumption has been only a recent trend , but high transport costs from the remote Iki Island made the export of edible dolphin meat uneconomic . |
| 13 | Even at the last conclave , in 1978 , this hypothetical cardinal could at most have been only 49 years old . |
| 14 | Unless his Kuwaiti venture is seen to be a manifest failure for him personally , runs the argument , the job will have been only half done . |
| 15 | One of these is that stocks have been only modestly run down compared with previous recessions ; another is the boost to government spending from the Gulf war . |
| 16 | Dot guessed he might have been only pretending . |
| 17 | Bradford was ‘ not troubled with them ’ [ fascists ] , ‘ The Movement does not receive much support ’ in Dewsbury , and there appear to have been only a couple of modest meetings in Huddersfield . |
| 18 | He was wearing the leather shoes that had been only for best until they grew too small for his feet and now had to be worn for school . |
| 19 | She had been only nineteen when the Second World War ended , and by the start of the nineties was the elder statesman in a cabinet which included several who had still been in nappies in 1945 . |
| 20 | It remains for us to ask how the popular Hitler image we have examined contributed towards the growing strength of the regime and towards making possible this war , which , from what we have seen , most Germans — though prepared to fight if necessary — had been only too anxious to avoid . |
| 21 | There was little demand from local trade unions and the Divisional Committee appears to have been only modestly active , probably because where well-established trade union organisations had members interested in educational opportunities , links between them already existed through the WEA branch organisation and were especially effective in Northamptonshire , Bedford , Luton and Ipswich . |
| 22 | 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. ) . |
| 23 | Then France had commanded without question , while Kings and Emperors had been only too eager to please . |
| 24 | If it had been only the Empress and a Court clique who desired war , things might have turned out differently , but given the wave of bellicosity which swept the entire nation , it would have required a miracle to produce a peaceful end to the crisis . |
| 25 | Mrs Zamzam 's land should have been only 25 minutes ' drive across the international frontier . |
| 26 | In the past , and sometimes even in the present , bad environmental management of rivers has been only a part and a symptom of bad man-management . |
| 27 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 28 | There has been only one Nobel prize in embryology . |
| 29 | Moving further north , the United States has rather fewer volcanoes , and although there are some impressive cones such as those of Mt Shasta and Mt Rainier , both over 4,000 metres high , there have been only a few minor eruptions in historic times . |
| 30 | The inflammation was where there had been only skin and bone before . |