Example sentences of "[am/are] only [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 2 | They are of a completely different sort from purely material things , such as trees and stones , which are only objects of perception , and not themselves perceivers . |
| 3 | Abilities are only indicators of potential , not predictors of performance . |
| 4 | They sometimes put these dramatic claims in the form of semantic theories : some of them said that propositions of law are synonymous with predictions of what judges will do , or are only expressions of emotion and so not really propositions at all . |
| 5 | Are only drops of water and even the dead man suddenly |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps they 're only people on holiday . ’ |