Example sentences of "only be [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 3 | The planet had only been recontacted a century earlier . |
| 4 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 5 | He had only been commissioned a week . |
| 6 | It 's just that I 've just got too many at , it can only be done a week before |
| 7 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 8 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 9 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 10 | My own family was at once strongly nuclear and part of what can only be called a clan . |
| 11 | The philosopher Mark Johnson has recently produced what can only be called a constructivist account of linguistic meaning and reasoning . |
| 12 | Indeed , the primitive matchlocks could only be discharged a maximum of sixteen times during a whole day of battle . |
| 13 | Obviously something like a car could only be considered a bribe ; on the other hand a vacuum cleaner , say , may be too expensive to give away in bulk but could certainly be offered for comparative testing . |
| 14 | In what can only be considered a plan of Baldrickian cunning , not only will the Board 's coffers be groaning with the weight of money but — and here is the really clever part — fewer people than ever will now be able to observe what a mess the game is really in . |
| 15 | In what can only be considered a plan of Baldrickian cunning , not only will the Board 's coffers be groaning with the weight of money but — and here is the really clever part — fewer people than ever will now be able to observe what a mess the game is really in . |