Example sentences of "is only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His unusual topic gave Fry trouble with the title of his lecture : ‘ The mere fact that we have no word to designate that body of studies which the Germans call Kunstforschung — a body of studies of which the actual history of Art is only a part — is significant . |
| 2 | Sassoon Sassoon was a public school man ( read his book Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man ) and his slightly cold style is only a front for his real feelings . |
| 3 | And yet , if I fail , it is only a failure . |
| 4 | ‘ In another location I would probably have a full dining room every night , but that is only a part of what is important to me . |
| 5 | This may be reasonably safe with a very long tow rope , but if there is only a shorter length of rope available the glider may overrun and smash into the back of the car , causing hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage to the glider . |
| 6 | Then it is only a matter of banking the glider over until the feature is just below the wing-tip , steadying the glider and pressing the shutter . |
| 7 | If it is only a small job , will I need Building Regulation Approval or Planning Permission ? |
| 8 | And it is only a patch ! |
| 9 | It is only a limited number of pensioners who at present enjoy substantial occupational pensions . |
| 10 | If there is not this feeling , if it is only a raising of the leg , the arabesque becomes intolerable nonsense . ’ |
| 11 | Every choreographer should realise that the usual vocabulary of steps is only a beginning . |
| 12 | Bridge-building is empty because it never happens , God-killing and god-making suicide is baffled because there is only a corpse to point at , there is nobody to attach a fulfilled ‘ free intention ’ to . |
| 13 | But the group is convinced that it is only a matter of time before someone discovers superconducting semiconductors that will work at the economically viable temperatures of liquid nitrogen . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , I 'll have to come clean ; that story is only a rumour . |
| 15 | For in our national tradition , in the arts as until recently in sports , it is the amateur who is most admired ; and Auden 's charming joker by the Christmas hearth is only a particular version of the amateur . |
| 16 | So too was his exceptional ability to accelerate or delay his pirouettes at will — a dancer for whom gravity is only a trivial inconvenience . |
| 17 | A survey , Young Single Mothers Today , by One Parent Families , ‘ shows that teenage pregnancy results from a complex set of circumstances and motivations , of which housing is only a minor factor , if considered at all , ’ explains Sue Slipman , of One Parent Families . |
| 18 | It is only a matter of time before somebody decides to rubbish the whole global warming theory out of sheer desperation at finding a new angle . |
| 19 | It is only a slight exaggeration to say that , at this extraordinary historical moment , the future of Poland depends on the Germans ; the future of Europe depends on each behaving a little more like the other . |
| 20 | The path we followed is only a short section of the 560-mile Ulster Way , which takes in most of the province and requires a good three weeks to complete , but this section of the coastal path can be completed in a couple of days , though longer is highly recommended . |
| 21 | It is certainly popular , but is only a ‘ must ’ for those happy with a bouncy bridge of wooden planks held together with rope suspended 80 feet above the sea . |
| 22 | It is only a rough-and-ready estimating method , but one which can be very useful ( if its limitations are recognised ) . |
| 23 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 24 | The house is situated in the seaside resort of St. Anne's-on-Sea in Lancashire and is only a short walk from the beach . |
| 25 | The House is situated in the seaside resort of St Annes-on-Sea , in Lancashire , and is only a short walk from the beach . |
| 26 | This is only a possibility when the songs are popular enough to be published in this form . |
| 27 | The poem enacts various creations as parts of an apparently continuing ritual pattern ; it is polyphiloprogenitive in detailing the creation of the Word , Origen , the painting , and flowers ; we seem able to trace all back to their cause , yet ultimately the cause is only a formal utterance , ‘ In the beginning was the Word ’ , whose repetition takes us no further . |
| 28 | Because of shock caused among audiences by this last line , Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage , so that it is clear that shock is only a part of a deeper message which shows how contact with the primitive can renew values of faith , self-sacrifice , and idealism which seem to have become totally atrophied in the world of London cocktail party and Hollywood film . |
| 29 | But corruption is only a partial explanation of some of the key strategic decisions taken by the governments . |
| 30 | This can be seen throughout Formen in his struggles with the word ‘ property ’ , but that is only a beginning . |