Example sentences of "be only [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 2 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 3 | I do find that most people who come out here on short contracts are only looking for a paid holiday . |
| 4 | Many of them are only followed for the first pitch , either because they finish up easier slabs ( which might well suit some people ) or become much harder . |
| 5 | It is said that 60 per cent of the human genome codes for proteins that are only expressed in the nervous system , so the real reason that human brains are different may be because greater genetic control has allowed them to evolve more rapidly ; if that is the case , taking to the trees may have freed the smell-brain , but it was its susceptibility to rapid evolution that led to the neopallial explosion . |
| 6 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
| 7 | Joint-authored papers are only cited under the first author . |
| 8 | Thus individuals are only presented with a limited choice of tenure and , according to the Nationwide Building Society |
| 9 | Such statements are only made after a considerable expenditure of time and effort by both the company and its auditors . |
| 10 | However , an Asian community worker in North London told me ‘ West Indian children are only reacting to the insufferable cultural superiority that Asians feel . |
| 11 | Ga-ry and Ja-kki are only outdone in the hard-work stakes by the man from the council with the large hammer who perpetually replaces fence posts as the crowd swells and the area cordoned off for the benefit of the saplings shrinks . |
| 12 | I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference . |
| 13 | ‘ But in these hard times , cars are only selling at the right price . |
| 14 | Such analyses are only performed at the lowest level when the areas of uncertainty have been reduced and refined . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 16 | The special methods of sensitivity analysis are only used in the former step so we shall concentrate on that . |
| 17 | To an extent , the questionnaire approach can be sterile and impersonal , but questions are only included after a good deal of face to face discussion . |
| 18 | The company 's hotels are run as autonomous units , and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent . |
| 19 | All I 'm try we 're only speaking from the best interests here , speaking from the bloody heart rather than the head probably here but we we do want th we do want the best but it 's the old old story , it 's botching it up is n't it , it 's fudging it , it 's trying to fit a square pet into a role cos we pay crap money y'know |
| 20 | ‘ We 're only going to the old registry office , ’ she says . |
| 21 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |
| 22 | So you 're only left with a thousand so |
| 23 | Easy way to sort them out this with with trig or with Pythagoras you 're only working with a right angles triangle . |
| 24 | I said that I said , A hundred and you 're only running at a hundred . |
| 25 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 26 | At first they were only fitted with a route-letter box on the front while the side indicator box contained such interesting displays as : STOPPING CAR TO BISPHAM , ALL STATIONS TO BLACKPOOL and SPECIAL TO FLEETWOOD . |
| 27 | Even in India , where railway-building developed rapidly between the 1860s and 1880s , the crucial feeder lines most important to the exploitation of India 's resources were only built in the twenty years before the First World War . |
| 28 | In situ hybridizations on injected embryos showed that , at this developmental stage , transcripts of eng-2 were only detected in the dorsal portion of the neural keel at the midbrain-hindbrain boundary ( Fig. 4 e ) . |
| 29 | On the morning of my visit the courts were only dealing with a limited number of very minor matters , mostly drink related . |
| 30 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |