Example sentences of "be only [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Elena received a fee for permission to purchase what was by Romanian standards a luxurious limousine , even if in the West the car might have been only a family saloon . |
2 | The question is whether these hallowed archaisms are only a surface phenomenon which a sensible modernization of Parliament would easily sweep away , or whether they indicate a fundamental unsuitability in the traditional kind of representative institution to cope with the problems of modern democratic government . |
3 | Since however the words furnished tenancy are only a shorthand description of the presence of the elements , factual and legal , within the bracket , to regard an error relating to these words as jurisdictional , but mistakes concerning a , b , c or d as not , appears devoid of sense . |
4 | Maybe they are only a crime problem and not the crime problem . |
5 | Remember that the facts are only the starting point : you will have a number of assumptions to justify and several courses of action to consider before you submit your final recommendation . |
6 | ‘ I know you 're only a cop winder , but you 're not from round here . |
7 | I said , And you 're only a quarter way across ? |
8 | These are not perfect they 're only a starting point . |
9 | they 're only a plastic job I would of imagined |
10 | You 've just got me , and I 'm only a third-year student nurse . ’ |
11 | ‘ I 'm only a rookie boss and no doubt some people will tell me it wo n't work . |
12 | ‘ I 'm only the messenger boy . |
13 | Instead of the MIPS R4000-killer it 's cracked up to be , he thinks it may be only a 30% performance improvement over the 80486 . |
14 | In the first exact solution of this type , given by Bell and Szekeres ( 1974 ) , the singularity on the hypersurface was shown to be only a coordinate singularity that could easily be removed by a coordinate transformation . |
15 | If that is the case , then it will be only the Norwich game at which we have really under-achieved . |
16 | It used to be only the City yuppie , but now most people can afford a mobile phone . |
17 | But the days of Wallace being only a bit part player are coming to an end . |
18 | Premiums paid for life insurance and funds under management have risen more than five-fold to £14.5 billion and £224 billion respectively , despite there being only a 2m rise in the number of life insurance policies to 106m . |
19 | Nothing was confirmed until recently , and even these gigs we 've just done in South America were only a testing ground to see how Brian would feel being the lead singer and mainman in general . |
20 | That was 1870 ; yet in 1881 Frances Mary Buss [ Miss Buss and Miss Beale/Cupid 's darts do not feel/How different from us/are Miss Beale and Miss Buss ] could say ‘ There is now no such thing as a ‘ woman 's education question ’ , ’ even if that were only a half truth . |
21 | Yeah but you know what I mean dad , it 's only a seaside thing is n't it ? |
22 | It 's only a plasticine model . |
23 | I think it 's only a Windows thing . |
24 | It 's only a jacket potato missing . |
25 | And she said er it 's only a lady owner and she knew her and , who lived in Burston , lived not far away so |
26 | finds , trying to make room for the cross , he 's tackled and tackled and it 's only a goal kick . |
27 | Yes it 's only a goal kick to Shrewsbury Town . |
28 | ‘ There 's only a phone number on their collar tags . ’ |
29 | After all , it 's only a 20-mile rehearsal for the ‘ big one ’ on April 12 . |
30 | Sometimes you will get a er a little bit offset with temperature but it 's only a minute thing . |