Example sentences of "be only a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A demand for dolphin meat for human consumption has been only a recent trend , but high transport costs from the remote Iki Island made the export of edible dolphin meat uneconomic . |
2 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
3 | It was in fact anticipated that the establishment of the Library Instruction Materials Bank ( LIMB ) in 1977 would remove some of the duplication in production , but there has been only a small measure of success here . |
4 | Tamar sat and talked quietly , telling her Uncle about her life and about Victoria , who had been only a small child when he had last seen her . |
5 | But there had been only a small decrease in mental hospital beds and little sign of a significant shift to different forms of care . |
6 | There have been only a small number of studies which have applied these techniques to bilingual data , for example : Auer 1981 , 1984a , 1984b ; Auer and Di Luzio 1983a , 1983b ; Tate 1984 ; Sebba and Wootton 1984 ; Milroy and Li Wei ( forthcoming ) . |
7 | ‘ It would presumably have been only a temporary interruption to your career , ’ he pointed out mercilessly . |
8 | In the EC there has been only a limited introduction of expanded audit mandates by individual member countries . |
9 | THE government spent £48m on a computer system for the Training and Enterprise Councils which has been only a partial operational success , according to a report today by the National Audit Office . |
10 | Outside the wall , except on the north side , where the river came to its foot , there appears to have been only a single ditch , some 6.5 m ( 21 ft ) wide and 2.5 m ( 8 ft ) deep , which had been truncated by the medieval ditch ; it is most likely to have been contemporary with the early rampart . |
11 | Ensign Piper had been only a short time in Australia when he volunteered for duty in the convict settlement on Norfolk Island . |
12 | What had been only a dense red glow when I first looked into the chamber was now a torrent of liquid flame . |
13 | Since 1985 there has been only a marginal reduction in mental hospital beds : ‘ I think we lost some somewhere ’ , as Dr Peter Verbraak , Director of de Grote Bek Hospital in Groningen , recently commented . |
14 | As a secular leader , the king may have had charge of the army , although this may have been only a ceremonial role , since the tablets seem to tell us that there were generals . |
15 | In Britain , however , there has been only a modest and localised recent recovery by the extreme right . |
16 | From the many written questions that my hon. Friend has tabled on this matter , I note not only that the numbers of people in residential and nursing care have increased substantially , as we all know , but also the surprising fact that there has been only a modest fall in the numbers of people in local authority care . |
17 | The policy has been only an equivocal success . |
18 | ‘ I am only a poor woman and I have had no time to prepare my place properly . |
19 | ‘ I have , ’ he answered slowly , ‘ but remember I am only a poor country vicar , and ca n't offer you a job with a high salary , so you may not wish to accept it . |
20 | ‘ He knows of your feelings towards me , and I am only a passing stranger . |
21 | Today I am only a wee man , 5 feet 4 inches in height . |
22 | ‘ As you may have noticed , Cornelius , I am only a small person . |
23 | ‘ I am only a humble security adviser , Mr Nadirpur . |
24 | Although the excavators have warned that these dates are only a broad indication of that of the complex and segmented line which is this phase of the Danevirke as a whole , they nevertheless believe that in a period of danger from Germany Harald rebuilt the central section , and was also responsible for the first phases of the flanking lines to east and west . |
25 | The dates are only a general indication and not definitive . |
26 | The existence of these different anatomical plans , without intermediates , again raises the question of whether there are only a small number of possible body plans , represented by the existing phyla , or whether we are looking at the end results of a series of historical accidents . |
27 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
28 | So again , although Girobank loans do add to the consumer 's potential credit armoury , they are only a small addition . |
29 | Unfortunately , as we know all too often , the players in the game of musical chairs are only a small part of the total group . |
30 | The allocations of SDRs by the IMF have been very limited , ( no new issues since 1981 ) and consequently SDRs are only a small part of countries ' reserves . |