Example sentences of "[noun pl] be only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , as he says in the introduction to his essay on the tales of Henry James , ‘ criticism seeks to interpret a particular work , while structuralism , for its part , is a scientific method implying an interest in impersonal laws and forms , of which existing objects are only the realizations , ( 1973 : 73 ) . |
| 2 | The meetings are only the most visible signs of a thaw in the relationship — previously something close to undeclared war — between the Yard and the Labour authorities since Sir Peter 's accession in 1987 . |
| 3 | For all that these strategies can cause irritation , though , their value lies in the implication — a world away from the commonsense views of Miller and Swift — that the surface meanings of words are only the tip of a massive iceberg . |
| 4 | Secondly , it does n't need to — the feminist consciousness which builds the refuges is only the commonsense of its clients . |
| 5 | GIS is only the most familiar of these ( Angehrn and Lüthi 1990 ) . |
| 6 | Italy is undergoing a peaceful but nonetheless dramatic revolution at the moment , of which the corruption trials are only the most startling and internationally reported aspect . |
| 7 | The basis of this approach is the belief that the response which a subject makes is not an immediate outcome of sensory stimulation but results from a number of processes which occur over time , stimulation of the sensory receptors being only the first stage in a series of events . |
| 8 | Taking the lifeboat out of the narrow harbour entrance into the face of 100-knot winds was only the first hazard . |
| 9 | If these control-and-pass senors are only the Spanish under-23s , what might the full side do to England at Wembley next month ? |
| 10 | The morning celebrations were only the start of an eventful day for Napier University . |
| 11 | The story of the snails and flukes is only the beginning . |
| 12 | The machinery of state officials is only the personification of the legal order , and the distinction between public and private law , espoused in many pluralist accounts , is largely bogus — an attempt to manipulate people into believing that ‘ private ’ law is apolitical or non-state . |
| 13 | Assigning children to levels within attainment targets is only the first stage in the ranking of children and schools which the government sought to establish . |
| 14 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 15 | Transmission problems are only the beginning . |
| 16 | those who think that some literary works are inherently and self-evidently superior to the rest and 2. those who think that such value-judgements are only the product of an ideology which itself is the product of material circumstances . |
| 17 | According to pragmatism what we call legal rights are only the servants of the best future : they are instruments we construct for that purpose and have no independent force or ground . |
| 18 | Alan Milburn , Labour 's prospective parliamentary candidate for Darlington , claims the figures are only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 19 | He said the changes were only the first step in a longer plan for the building , a former cinema . |
| 20 | Legitimised greed is widespread and the ambition of the bigger clubs to monopolise the most profitable sponsorships and TV deals is only the most visible evidence of a disease which permeates the game . |
| 21 | Similarly , the interpretation of barbed and serrated discs ( hsuan chi ) as astronomical devices intended to give guidance in scheduling affairs is only the most plausible of those already advanced . |
| 22 | This last-minute change of dates is only the latest in a long line of difficulties we 've had to overcome . ’ |
| 23 | I will add simply that locked rooms are only the purest of all sorts of " impossible crimes ' . |
| 24 | The masks are only the latest in a number of measures in the effort to eliminate deaths by tiger attacks . |
| 25 | This survey shows that the present lanes and cottages are only the remnants of an extensive settlement occupying at least 28 hectares ( 70 acres ) . |
| 26 | The seven tax fraud charges were only the first of many corruption charges expected to be filed against Marcos and her children . |
| 27 | We girls were only the workhorses really — we read the instruments , plotted the charts , made the tea and kept the office clean , and were not meant to be able to give a weather forecast . |
| 28 | However , such receiverships and administrations are only the tip of the iceberg , with many firms reaching arrangements with their bankers and trade creditors and others being acquired or subject to capital reconstruction as the price of survival . |
| 29 | Voting in national elections is only the tip of the iceberg , however , in expressing the troubles of ‘ northern council estate ’ Britain . |
| 30 | Watching birds is only the enjoyable tip of the study of ornithology : protection , population studies , learning about the lives of individual birds , including the study of migration , are just a few of the many other facets . |