Example sentences of "[be] only [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I listen to my radio I am only marking time . |
| 2 | ‘ These things are only shadow boxing , overgrown schoolboys sparring ; they never come to much . |
| 3 | Do n't forget you 're only putting , you 're only part time , you 're pushing to do your work hard |
| 4 | I 'm confused and i 'm only drinking orange juice . |
| 5 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 6 | Double-breasted to be fastened up to the collar , or left open , the reefer quickly ceased to be only navy blue and became a double-breasted tweed ‘ casual ’ coat , a direct ancestor o f the modern double-breasted suit . |
| 7 | It may be only outsider skepticism that leads me to see a subtle , probably subconscious new emphasis on the word ‘ choice ’ . |
| 8 | Many of the people in our picture were only window shopping and kept a tight hold on their cash , according to disappointed traders . |
| 9 | There were only 30m plastic cards in circulation in 1979 — including cheque , credit and cash withdrawal cards — whereas now there are 100m cards in use . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid I think it 's only junk mail , but it 's addressed to you . ’ |
| 11 | Yes , it 's only half term . |
| 12 | It 's only surface calm . |
| 13 | Racing 's only Sunday meeting of the year is to be staged at Lingfield Park on 1 August . |
| 14 | I do n't know , depends what you want to do , I can prepare it now actually there 's only Sally left is ? , is it only you left Sal ? |
| 15 | What are they now ? it 's only paper money , what 's it matter ? |
| 16 | it 's only frame collapse . |
| 17 | Rachaela said , ‘ There 's only carton milk . ’ |
| 18 | Oh it 's only Friday afternoon , I was waiting for Doris to phone me were n't I ? |
| 19 | but there again it 's only hand feed , you 've , you got to have a , a machine that can feed on to take this tubing |
| 20 | Well th if it 's only , if it 's only term assurance there 's no units involved anyway . |
| 21 | Well it 's only Wednesday love . |
| 22 | It 's only breast milk it 's like that , if they have bottles , bottled milk it 's more solid from the beginning , but it 's not nice , this is n't bad , messy , but it 's not smelly . |
| 23 | It 's only Lucozade dear . |
| 24 | It 's only Monday morning too ! |
| 25 | Currently the EEC Nine is only 64% self sufficient in lamb and mutton and around 95 — 97% in beef . |
| 26 | > It is only Apolline art that seeks to replace suffering by beauty . |
| 27 | Not all commercials have music , but most do , even if it is only background music bought from a library of such material . |
| 28 | ‘ None of us can understand how he fell — the window is only 2ft square . ’ |
| 29 | The second point which I would make is that despite having had many months indeed years , to come to a view , erm it is only Selby District Council who have stepped forward and said , basically that they would be prepared to accommodate the new settlement . |
| 30 | More importantly , it was only Biscuit Bomber left in Australia . |