Example sentences of "is only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say there are no great , there is no beautiful , there is only the thin filth of getting old , the thin layer of filth that gets to cover everything . |
| 2 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 3 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 4 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 5 | If there is only the mechanical operation of the spirit ? |
| 6 | For him , wrote Harsnet , there is only the endless metamorphosis of narrative , no end except for the non-end of his death . |
| 7 | And now in the firelight there is only the best of music to play . |
| 8 | This is only the beginning of the neurophysiologist 's metaphysical problems . |
| 9 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 10 | There is growing , matter-of-fact , support for the proposition that significantly greater public investment in schools and colleges , in roads , railways and on the environment would be money productively spent , and that it is only the damaging and doctrinaire intransigence of Mrs Thatcher which obstructs such expenditure . |
| 11 | This propaganda flop is only the latest in a stream of disinformation and contradictory statements emanating from Cambodia since the Vietnamese said they were finally withdrawing all their troops from the country . |
| 12 | The initial change in Singer from shuddering zombie to desperate fighter for life is only the first of several metamorphoses — all caught with bravura vividness in Antony Sher 's phenomenally versatile performance . |
| 13 | But it is only the young man . |
| 14 | From the command centre , it is only the steering 's tendency to provide a slightly blurred picture of events at the front wheels that interrupts an otherwise masterful flow of information . |
| 15 | This , of course , is only the official , public side of the story . |
| 16 | ‘ Volatility is only the first stage in measuring risk . |
| 17 | But that is only the beginning . |
| 18 | It is only the dedication of charities like Oxfam , which has a team of permanent aid workers in Cambodia , that enables the UK to hold up its head . |
| 19 | It might be argued that historically the Maronite Christians have done much to bring this near calamity on themselves , that Gen Aoun is only the latest , probably the last , in a long line of revolts against an Arab and Mulsim environment to which this most stiff-necked of Arab minorities refuses to adapt itself . |
| 20 | But Sardinia is only the start . |
| 21 | It is a cliche to say that it has become a way of life , and that the stone-throwing is only the public , propaganda face of a whole political , social , economic and psychological transformation — the Palestinians ' own perestroika — which both sustains the Intifada and lays the groundwork for the eventual transition to statehood . |
| 22 | It is only the size that is deceptive . |
| 23 | This would imply that the majority of mustards are hot , but it is only the English mustard that is really fierce . |
| 24 | This is only the fifth time this has happened in 20 years : the others were in 1970 , 1973 , 1974 and 1981 . |
| 25 | Reforming the blasphemy law is only the first item on a lengthening Muslim agenda . |
| 26 | That the monument is only the latest manifestation of a long and miserable tradition of big lies and big art should come as no surprise to readers of ‘ Republic of Fear ’ , Mr Khalil 's previous study of contemporary Iraqi politics . |
| 27 | The face is only the serial number of a specimen . |
| 28 | ‘ … this is only the beginning of what they will do ; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them ’ ( 11.6 ) . |
| 29 | But this , of course , is only the beginning of the story . |
| 30 | It is only the American buyers who are now attracted by genuine objets d'art , they are the only ones who understand their true worth and what kind of reflection is that upon us ? |