Example sentences of "be only [vb pp] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies that set up their regional headquarters in Singapore are only taxed 10% on income from approved services , including trading in foreign exchange and offshore investments . |
| 2 | Most certainly and if you do you will be saving money because with First National you are only charged interest on the amount you owe , calculated on a day-to-day basis . |
| 3 | A Most certainly and if you do you will be saving money because with First National you are only charged interest on the amount you owe , calculated on a day-to-day basis . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , unfairly dismissed employees are only awarded re-employment in a very small minority of cases . |
| 5 | He says he 's only seen sunflowers in the United States so he went home and got his camera to take some pictures . |
| 6 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 7 | Even so Adenauer was only elected Chancellor by a slim margin — 202 votes out of 404 . |
| 8 | He was sacked by Andreas Papandreou from two Socialist cabinets and was only elected Mayor of Athens last year with the support of the Right-wing New Democracy party . |
| 9 | It was a cheap alternative to buying from local merchants , but I was only allowed access to the provisions at points of safety such as towns and wells . |