Example sentences of "be only [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 2 | Shop around for a reasonable estimate , or hire a van and the services of some friends and do it yourself , it is much cheaper , and worth while if you are only moving a short distance . |
| 3 | I am sure that you are only feeling a young girl 's modest misgivings at the approach of marriage . |
| 4 | But we 're only outputting a single line , so you that 's all you can do . |
| 5 | You 're only expressing a personal opinion Councillor ? |
| 6 | At that , at , at at that time we 're only talking a few years ago |
| 7 | ‘ And the senator tells me that you 're only doing a two-week trial with his kids , is that right ? ’ |
| 8 | Cuts into the , it cuts into the we the weeks , I mean that sounds terrible , I 'll be , you 're only working a few days but it 's surprising the teaching days I do really , that really does cut into my time at home . |
| 9 | The teachers are all on strike , hardly surprising when they 're only paid a hundred dollars a month , so all Alejandro 's kids are at home getting under their mother 's feet . ’ |
| 10 | Other reasons given for not doing courses were varied and were only cited a small number of times . |
| 11 | Under the captaincy of McBride and the coaching skills of his Ballymena colleague Syd Millar , the Lions , with nine Irishmen in tow , won 21 of their 22 games , and were only denied a clean sweep when flanker Fergus Slattery was robbed of a try in the dying minutes of the Fourth and Final Test which ended in a 13–13 draw . |
| 12 | Besides , he had no sympathy with the Black and Tans ' methods — they were only making a bad situation worse . |
| 13 | Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent . |
| 14 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 15 | He 's on yes , he 's only getting a little present cos I 'm still paying for his camcorder till next month . |
| 16 | So that girl 's only paying a hundred pound a month mortgage on it 's only a terraced house but |
| 17 | Joey Kelly has become something of a racing machine for he was only beaten a short head at Enniskillen last Saturday , then won at Dromore on Wednesday before being turned out again yesterday . |
| 18 | My impression was that I was only getting a small part of his attention , that he was profoundly preoccupied and that the one thing he wanted was to be left alone . ’ |
| 19 | She gave him a rather languid finger wave and just as she disappeared under the wing float , he then realised she was only wearing a black sporran . |
| 20 | If he wanted her , even if it was only to satiate a temporary need , even if she was only a substitute for the woman he really wanted , then she would oblige , because he had reduced her will-power to nothing . |
| 21 | Blacker Miller , still then Foreign Minister [ see above ] , was invited to address the meeting formally ( whereas San Román was only given a private hearing ) , and described the outcome as " adequate " . |
| 22 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 23 | He was only spared a long jail term when 24-year-old Lynn agreed to drop assault charges providing he went into therapy . |
| 24 | It was only sold a short while ago , and the family were hoping to move to this house in Eynsham , but the sale fell through . |
| 25 | ‘ I was only making a pleasant remark comparing this place to the big city . |
| 26 | Both were directed towards the formalist reading of literary texts , and some anglophone academics tried to minimize the strangeness of French imports by saying that la nouvelle critique was only offering a new version of what had long been familiar in the Anglo-American academy . |