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 .
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