Example sentences of "be only [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm only in this business to make people laugh . |
| 2 | I 'm only in this business for my own enjoyment , yet because we 've been successful and made a lot of money people automatically assume I 'm a raving Conservative and resent.my criticisms . |
| 3 | Perhaps communication should be at the broadest possible level if that is done well ; if not , it should be only at that level which can be done well . |
| 4 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 5 | Still it 's only for another day . |
| 6 | And it 's only after that decision that you are aware of any crowd reaction . |
| 7 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |
| 8 | because it 's only by that way that if , if he 's gon na need the grommets or something in his ear then he really needs to get it sorted out this year . |
| 9 | It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion . |
| 10 | The growth in academic social gerontology has , however , been a much more recent phenomenon and it is only with this development that several important historical issues relating to old age in the present century have established themselves on the agenda for research . |
| 11 | The appropriate tax rates are then applied to calculate the total income tax due and it is only at this stage that the MIRAS system is introduced into the assessment . |
| 12 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |
| 13 | It is only at this point that the style gets locked in . |
| 14 | It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence . |
| 15 | It is only on this body of knowledge that you are able to build your further development . |
| 16 | It is only within this complexity that ‘ transition to adulthood ’ can be understood . |
| 17 | It is only in that context that this appeal may afford guidance to the doctors and hospitals . |
| 18 | Each source of energy or technology has its own economic , social and ecological niche , and it is only in that niche that it can prosper . |
| 19 | It is only in the last thirty-five years that animals had been allowed to have ‘ mental ’ processes other than learning and so it is only in that time that psychologists have developed the behavioural tests to investigate them . |
| 20 | On the other hand , a pro-rights clergyman suggested that it is our traditional despotic treatment of the non-human creation which has been truly infantile , and that it is only in this century that we have begun to grow up a little . |
| 21 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 22 | ‘ You are an apprentice historian and therefore should know that it is only in this century that this attempt to sanitise death has stricken our race . |
| 23 | It is only in this way that it is possible to explain the fact that Chingis Khan was able to organize the nomads of Central Asia , an extraordinarily disparate collection of groupings whether considered ‘ racially ’ or ‘ linguistically ’ , into a unified and effective war machine . |
| 24 | It is only in this way that ideology can be distinguished from science . |
| 25 | So he has followed a dual approach , honouring the supply to the supermarkets while continuing to supply and expand the local market ; it is only in this way that the operation has been able to survive and continue to provide a quality product while supporting a number of local employees and their families . |
| 26 | Thus , it is only in this case that the known laws would determine how the universe should behave . |
| 27 | It is only from some insistence , within some other social and cultural order , that signals should always be singular in dimension — indicating ‘ pure art ’ and the ‘ purely aesthetic ’ in manifestly specializing , and then both emphasizing and excluding , ways — that these historical and sociological complexities are resisted . |
| 28 | It is only against this background that one can begin now to understand the behaviour of Hollywood and Broadway , of the star names who confessed so eagerly and abjectly to their previous sins and were meat and drink to the H.U.A.C. Like reformed alcoholics , they could not wait to let the world know how misguided they had been and who had led them astray . |
| 29 | Before turning to a detailed discussion of the lives of the Muftis , it will be useful to examine in some detail the development of the learned hierarchy in the Ottoman state , since it is only against this background that the development of the institution of the Muftilik can be properly appreciated . |
| 30 | She was sure it would get Edouard and his wife into trouble , and she kept saying it was only for another day or two . ’ |