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 | Over that period there has been only a 10 per cent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But there had been only a small decrease in mental hospital beds and little sign of a significant shift to different forms of care . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ It would presumably have been only a temporary interruption to your career , ’ he pointed out mercilessly . |
| 9 | In the EC there has been only a limited introduction of expanded audit mandates by individual member countries . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ensign Piper had been only a short time in Australia when he volunteered for duty in the convict settlement on Norfolk Island . |
| 13 | It must have been only a 7.65 that got him . |
| 14 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 15 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 16 | Moving further north , the United States has rather fewer volcanoes , and although there are some impressive cones such as those of Mt Shasta and Mt Rainier , both over 4,000 metres high , there have been only a few minor eruptions in historic times . |
| 17 | There have been only a few empirical studies of the relationship between volume and maturity . |
| 18 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 19 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
| 20 | Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population . |
| 21 | What had been only a dense red glow when I first looked into the chamber was now a torrent of liquid flame . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In Britain , however , there has been only a modest and localised recent recovery by the extreme right . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I am only a poor woman and I have had no time to prepare my place properly . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ He knows of your feelings towards me , and I am only a passing stranger . |
| 29 | Today I am only a wee man , 5 feet 4 inches in height . |
| 30 | ‘ As you may have noticed , Cornelius , I am only a small person . |