Example sentences of "[verb] [be] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
| 2 | The measurements I have given are only a rough guide , so feel free to experiment until you find a setting that suits your sound and playing style . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
| 6 | It was in fact anticipated that the establishment of the Library Instruction Materials Bank ( LIMB ) in 1977 would remove some of the duplication in production , but there has been only a small measure of success here . |
| 7 | In Britain , however , there has been only a modest and localised recent recovery by the extreme right . |
| 8 | Since 1985 there has been only a marginal reduction in mental hospital beds : ‘ I think we lost some somewhere ’ , as Dr Peter Verbraak , Director of de Grote Bek Hospital in Groningen , recently commented . |
| 9 | While the number and proportion of women in paid employment has increased significantly since the Second World War , there has been only a very small improvement in women 's wages compared with those of men , and little growth in the range of occupations in which women are able to gain employment . |
| 10 | In the EC there has been only a limited introduction of expanded audit mandates by individual member countries . |
| 11 | However , there has been only a one to three per cent reduction in fat on sheep and cattle carcases during that period . |
| 12 | Over that period there has been only a 10 per cent . |
| 13 | From the many written questions that my hon. Friend has tabled on this matter , I note not only that the numbers of people in residential and nursing care have increased substantially , as we all know , but also the surprising fact that there has been only a modest fall in the numbers of people in local authority care . |
| 14 | THE government spent £48m on a computer system for the Training and Enterprise Councils which has been only a partial operational success , according to a report today by the National Audit Office . |
| 15 | The policy has been only an equivocal success . |
| 16 | Result of this raid was complete stoppage of production for two months , deliveries when they did recommence being only a fraction of previous supplies , thirty enemy aircraft destroyed in aerial combat and 38 on the ground . |
| 17 | In fact , the event was even more profound than that , because it was also an explosion of the four dimensions ( as well as , it is thought , a number of others , which almost immediately ‘ rolled themselves up ’ so that we do not recognize them as such — the matter and energy involved being only a secondary consideration ! |
| 18 | What we hear as squeaking is only the lower end of a sonic signal mostly beyond the range of our human ears . |
| 19 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 20 | Although trading standards officers have the power to seize fake goods — and prosecute both the manufacturer and seller — they admit the ones they catch are only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 21 | ‘ What is done is only a beginning . |
| 22 | The problem that we identified is only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 23 | There are very many ways of course to occupy the mind and the techniques we describe are only a few suggestions for practice . |
| 24 | If your income is slightly above these levels you should still apply because the figures shown are only a guide and can not reflect every personal circumstance . |
| 25 | The ones shown are only the simplest ; each winds only once around the z-axis when projected on to the x-y plane . |
| 26 | For each row the length of weaving yarn used is only the width of the knitting , whereas a knitted row uses approximately three times the width of the knitting . |
| 27 | and she says no , she says one I 've got 's only a thin one , you want that thicker one , you know with these being thick |
| 28 | ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head . |
| 29 | Under the accord , which Bustos claimed was only a " first step " falling short of CUT demands , a new minimum wage of US$87 was to be paid from June 1 in addition to adjustments to family allowances , pensions and some subsidies , which would be subject to annual vision . |
| 30 | ‘ Blur are only the present of rock'n'roll . ’ |