Example sentences of "[be] only [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As as a personnel manager once said to me , Reference are only worth the amount of work |
| 2 | Because of its large distance from the Sun Jupiter moves around its orbit rather slowly , and therefore the intervals between oppositions as seen from the Earth ( the synodic orbital period ) are only about a month longer than a year . |
| 3 | Results suggest that melt residence times beneath basaltic volcanoes are only of the order of tens of years , and stored melt volumes are consequently small ( 1 km 3 or less ) . |
| 4 | Ipswich have used the new rolling substitutes rule to their advantage this season but it often means that the first choice players are only off the pitch for five or ten minutes at a time . |
| 5 | We are only at the beginning of a change which became more conspicuous later . |
| 6 | It should be remembered that we are only at the beginning and there are many varying factors yet to be confronted ; how much energy is used when recycling paper compared to using new stock ? |
| 7 | Finally , we realise that we are only at the beginning of what may prove to be one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century . |
| 8 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 9 | However , these are only within the reach of the better-off and those who can win a scholarship or bursary . |
| 10 | We are the only people whose sacred places are only in the land of Israel . " |
| 11 | Chairmen of football clubs are only in the papers and on the radio when the team is up the creek . |
| 12 | Boeing paid for it all , and perhaps it would be well for the more cynically-minded who believe aircraft manufacturers are only in the business to make money to remember that Boeing had no legal obligation to contribute a single penny . |
| 13 | To be consistent with holism the constructivist has to say that individual ‘ beliefs ’ — mental states that are only in the running for truth — do not correspond to anything in the mind . |
| 14 | So long as the techniques that determine both how software is used and how it is made are only in the hands of technical experts , computer systems will never find the universal application which is certainly within their grasp . |
| 15 | In answer to ‘ obscure and spurious questions such as whether universals may exist by themselves , whether they are only in the mind , whether they exist separate from things or only with them ’ , he says that these ‘ great universals are nothing more than … common nouns … that can be applied to more than one object ’ . |
| 16 | Pro footballers are only in the game for so long and have to make as much out of it while they can . |
| 17 | You know , if , particularly so , if you 're only on a subsistence wage in the first place . |
| 18 | ‘ As yet , ’ said the Inspector imperturbably , ‘ we 're only at the beginning of our enquiries . |
| 19 | Since they 're only at the start of their two-month US tour , BMG sent them down to Next for some smart fashions . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're only after the company ! |
| 21 | Quiet , woman , you 're only in the way ! |
| 22 | They 're only in the shops for the next few weeks , so do try one now . |
| 23 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 24 | Customer 4 : ‘ I 'm only on a pension . ’ |
| 25 | No I 'm , I 'm only on the P T A. |
| 26 | I 'm only in the public eye because of what I do on the ice . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm only in the middle though . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm only in the office for nine months in the year . |
| 29 | Where there is a shortage of labour in a regional or occupational labour market and pay scales are not sufficiently flexible to enable employers to respond to it , it may be only via the displacement of permanent staff by agency workers that the occupational labour market is able to find its equilibrium . |
| 30 | They may know more than they realize , for it may be only on the occasion of a question that they see or realize applications and utilities of writings with which they are perfectly familiar . |