Example sentences of "they [am/are] only [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Now many people seem to think that technology means machines and equipment , but machines and equipment and the software that run them are only the products of technology .
2 He might well exclude old statutes like those forbidding contraception , however clear and precise these might be , if they are only the relics of long-abandoned policies , if they represent no contemporary political decision and therefore serve no useful role in coordinating social behaviour now . "
3 Then it was discovered that they are only the larvae of a very well known animal .
4 The images that we make are not themselves beautiful , they are only the cages in which we trap the living birds and butterflies of beauty .
5 And they 're only the ones we know about .
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