Example sentences of "be only [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We are only at the beginning of a change which became more conspicuous later . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , these are only within the reach of the better-off and those who can win a scholarship or bursary . |
| 9 | We are the only people whose sacred places are only in the land of Israel . " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Pro footballers are only in the game for so long and have to make as much out of it while they can . |
| 14 | ‘ As yet , ’ said the Inspector imperturbably , ‘ we 're only at the beginning of our enquiries . |
| 15 | Since they 're only at the start of their two-month US tour , BMG sent them down to Next for some smart fashions . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're only after the company ! |
| 17 | Quiet , woman , you 're only in the way ! |
| 18 | I 'm only in the public eye because of what I do on the ice . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm only in the middle though . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm only in the office for nine months in the year . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As all sand surfaces possess chance irregularities , even though they may be only of the magnitude of a few sand grains , there is a natural tendency for ripples to form . |
| 24 | Sometimes , as in this example , the contrast is obvious in the language itself ( play well v. lose ) ; on other occasions , the contrast may be only in the speaker 's mind , e.g. : |
| 25 | This suggests that make expresses antecedent causation , since it evokes a process of causation giving rise to a state of affairs that comes into being only at the end of the process . |
| 26 | For example , recall that when anyone aged thirty today was born , computers were rare ; the standard equipment in all offices was a manual typewriter ; jumbo jets were only at the development stage ; transatlantic phone calls went by cable , not satellite ; and television was virtually unseen outside the developed world . |
| 27 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 28 | And looking back on his emergence from absolute idealism , he says of himself that he came to hate the stuffiness of supposing that space and time were only in the mind . |
| 29 | But after wining and dining in style , it 's only aboard the tea-time boat home that you count the real cost — those extra pounds on your waistline . |
| 30 | Because Margaret 's only up the top there is n't she ? |