Example sentences of "[adj] [be] only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , in the last ten years , and this is only history , what really matters is tomorrow , Ferrari won one driver 's title and Williams and McLaren won the rest . |
| 2 | Yet this is only part of his argument . |
| 3 | Fluka is known world-wide as a supplier of high quality chemicals and bio-chemicals for research and development and intermediates for industrial manufacture , but this is only part of the picture . |
| 4 | But this is only part of the story and can be very misleading . |
| 5 | Asthma , multiple sclerosis , osteoarthritis or Parkinson 's disease , for example , each carry their own set of implications for disabled living , and yet , of course , this is only part of the picture . |
| 6 | It must be clear that improved liaison between these parties will help , but this is only part of the requirement . |
| 7 | We will be dealing here mostly with the simple techniques of putting notes together in certain special ways , but in reality this is only part of the story . |
| 8 | Our concern is primarily with the government 's fiscal activities , and as emphasized in Lecture 1 — this is only part of its impact on the economic system . |
| 9 | But this is only part of the disagreement . |
| 10 | This is only part of Samson Agonistes ’ contextualisation . |
| 11 | Consequently , while it is true to say that the sentence with the to infinitive evokes a realized event , this is only part of the story : it also evokes the dispositions of the support previous to the realization of the happening denoted by the infinitive . |
| 12 | The British legal system is already in a bit of a sorry state but this is only part of the story because we are faced with a creaking Government bureaucracy that has often been shown by the Higher Courts to be acting in an illegal and unfair manner . |
| 13 | Though most people recognise that this is only fiction there nevertheless remains a feeling that the work is rather exciting , possibly because it lacks any clearly defined morality . |
| 14 | " This is only water . " |
| 15 | The coven will also employ magic , but this is only secondary to its beliefs and worship . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , rumour , and this is only rumour , mind you , has USL president Roel Pieper becoming president of Novell Inc . |
| 17 | But as the bosses of the Scottish development corporations discovered , all this is only theory . |
| 18 | This was only part of her character . |
| 19 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 20 | They seemed part of the Castle 's fire , each flame a plunging spear ; and Ruth was beyond remembering this was only magic . |
| 21 | However , the availability of software to create these is only part of the story . |
| 22 | But that is only part of the explanation for the magnitude of their swing to the Conservatives . |
| 23 | That is only part of the story . |
| 24 | However , that is only part of the answer . |
| 25 | Because salary company car BUPA and all that is only commission in another form and they can take it away and and not give it to you just the same as any other company . |
| 26 | Some people tend to take advantage of a placid nature — that is only human — so I realized that in order to prevent abuse of my personality I would have to put up a barrier to protect my inner self . |
| 27 | I 'm Froggy 's only relation , and I reckon I deserve the money after looking after him every winter for years . |
| 28 | " That 's only check ; I can get out of it . |
| 29 | I mean that 's , that 's only courtesy . |
| 30 | That 's only economics . |