Example sentences of "be only [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 2 | When I listen to my radio I am only marking time . |
| 3 | ‘ So why do you call me Sir John , when I am only John Durbeyfield ? ’ |
| 4 | They exist in a mirror world where they are suspended in a liquid like molten glass , and these images when seen from the mundane are brilliant but they are only mirror images of reality . |
| 5 | Speaking at the funeral of UVF victim Jim Peacock , the Bishop of Connor , Dr Samuel Poyntz , said their ‘ bestial and barbaric acts are only mirror images of PIRA bombers and murderers ’ . |
| 6 | In his sermon he said that their ‘ bestial and barbaric acts are only mirror images of IRA bombers and murderers ’ . |
| 7 | Even mass and solidity are only sense perceptions . |
| 8 | Well , I mean if , they are only cartoon characters after all and Tom and Gerry have got to fit into the exactly that mould , and nobody takes that too seriously . |
| 9 | They are only wind-up birds |
| 10 | In the area there are only limestone rocks which splinter easily and so are unsuitable for an inscription . |
| 11 | Do n't forget we are only business acquaintances . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ These things are only shadow boxing , overgrown schoolboys sparring ; they never come to much . |
| 13 | There are gods , but they too are only material combinations of atoms , and our own consciousness ceases at death on the disintegration of our material bodies . |
| 14 | For causal theorists there are only nerve impulses , all of which are essentially the same . |
| 15 | Well I mean they 're only part sets . |
| 16 | Do n't forget you 're only putting , you 're only part time , you 're pushing to do your work hard |
| 17 | They 're only nome noises slowed down . ’ |
| 18 | About ten pound worth of disks , 'cos they 're only colour disks , cheap things . |
| 19 | I says they 're only sun glasses . |
| 20 | So when you 're retired , you 've got to think that you 're not salary-linked , you 're only R P I-linked . |
| 21 | I 'm confused and i 'm only drinking orange juice . |
| 22 | I 'm not naturally slim , and any excess weight I do put on shows because I 'm only 5′ 1″ . |
| 23 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 24 | Double-breasted to be fastened up to the collar , or left open , the reefer quickly ceased to be only navy blue and became a double-breasted tweed ‘ casual ’ coat , a direct ancestor o f the modern double-breasted suit . |
| 25 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 26 | It may be only outsider skepticism that leads me to see a subtle , probably subconscious new emphasis on the word ‘ choice ’ . |
| 27 | It dwelt on the problems arising when Irish suspects , caught in police trawls , turned out to be only Republican sympathisers rather than terrorists . |
| 28 | In my heaven , there will be only five-year-old eyes , for |
| 29 | Being only 5′ 2½″ tall myself I too feel very strongly about the unfairness of this , but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it except to warn you that in these circumstances you do need to be very accurate in counting calories in order to achieve a good rate of weight loss . |
| 30 | Many of the people in our picture were only window shopping and kept a tight hold on their cash , according to disappointed traders . |