Example sentences of "[am/are] only [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am only insisting first that this need not be the only justification for the power ( the normative power ) to commit oneself , and second , that one encourages reliance through knowingly undertaking an obligation . |
| 2 | ‘ We are only getting basic money which is rubbish . |
| 3 | Our course makes no serious attempt to cover all areas that could reasonably come under the electronic publishing umbrella — database publishing , network information services , and ( perhaps more seriously ) CD-ROM publishing techniques are only given passing mentions . |
| 4 | In organisations people are only given sufficient power to carry out their responsibilities effectively . |
| 5 | They are only made possible by enzymes — biological catalysts that speed up their chemical reactions to a respectable level . |
| 6 | Many household jobs are basically easy , and are only made difficult because they 're so inaccessible . |
| 7 | Motorists are only permitted two Sunday outings a month . |
| 8 | Firstly , some overhead costs are only known some months after they have been incurred . |
| 9 | seventy thousand last year , now you 're saying that even within any , I know it 's moderate inflation , but none the less it 's inflation , er , you are only making available , did you get through the seventy , I mean , were they applied for ? |
| 10 | This means that a 50MHz 486 performs only a little better than a 16MHz 286 if you are only doing simple word-processing . |
| 11 | The Japanese team are only playing four teams around the country , in Leeds , London , Exmouth and Bristol , and their final game will be against England A at the new rugby centre at Castle Croft in Wolverhampton . |
| 12 | The council have a very strict rule that homeless people are only allowed one offer of a council house . |
| 13 | The council have a very strict rule that homeless people are only allowed one offer of a council house . |
| 14 | You are only allowed one journey into hell … |
| 15 | You are only allowed ten photographs and if you want any more you have to put some in your property [ stored property inaccessible to the prisoner ] or hand them out . |
| 16 | You can either cut this stem away , as you would at pruning or after flowering , or , if you are only budding one or two , take a bud and leave the stem standing . |
| 17 | Because you 're always starting on the root , reversing directions on the root and ending on the root , you 're only using one seventh of the possibilities inherent in each scale . |
| 18 | If you 're only using two colours and have used a Silver blank card , the rows are already marked for you . |
| 19 | But again , you know , you 're paying here premiums for twenty thousand pound , but you 're only getting ten . |
| 20 | We 're only watching this with interest , we 're not directly involved ourselves . |
| 21 | This is why you 're only seeing half the Winchess program . |
| 22 | The augmented intervals are quite easy because you 're only going one semitone greater than what , than the note that appears in the major scale are n't you . |
| 23 | I mean if they 're only giving three marks for it you 're not going to do a lot of geometry and all sorts of constructions and complicated things . |
| 24 | But they 're only having one big present each this year . |
| 25 | Well we keep on trying Father we do n't get a lot of encouragement , I mean you 're only having one collection on Sunday nowadays . |
| 26 | We 're only having two or three up here anyway for the for the . |
| 27 | You 're only having little bits . |
| 28 | He said he does n't catch cos I 'll be I 've , I 'll have those right here for your so you 're only paying twenty pounds bloody football bets are n't they ! |
| 29 | Yeah that 's one only you 're only con remember you 're only doing one assignment . |
| 30 | You 've got it fixed in your mind you 're only doing one assignment you know . |