Example sentences of "be only [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motorists are only permitted two Sunday outings a month . |
| 2 | The Japanese team are only playing four teams around the country , in Leeds , London , Exmouth and Bristol , and their final game will be against England A at the new rugby centre at Castle Croft in Wolverhampton . |
| 3 | The council have a very strict rule that homeless people are only allowed one offer of a council house . |
| 4 | The council have a very strict rule that homeless people are only allowed one offer of a council house . |
| 5 | You are only allowed one journey into hell … |
| 6 | You are only allowed ten photographs and if you want any more you have to put some in your property [ stored property inaccessible to the prisoner ] or hand them out . |
| 7 | You can either cut this stem away , as you would at pruning or after flowering , or , if you are only budding one or two , take a bud and leave the stem standing . |
| 8 | Because you 're always starting on the root , reversing directions on the root and ending on the root , you 're only using one seventh of the possibilities inherent in each scale . |
| 9 | If you 're only using two colours and have used a Silver blank card , the rows are already marked for you . |
| 10 | But again , you know , you 're paying here premiums for twenty thousand pound , but you 're only getting ten . |
| 11 | The augmented intervals are quite easy because you 're only going one semitone greater than what , than the note that appears in the major scale are n't you . |
| 12 | I mean if they 're only giving three marks for it you 're not going to do a lot of geometry and all sorts of constructions and complicated things . |
| 13 | But they 're only having one big present each this year . |
| 14 | Well we keep on trying Father we do n't get a lot of encouragement , I mean you 're only having one collection on Sunday nowadays . |
| 15 | We 're only having two or three up here anyway for the for the . |
| 16 | He said he does n't catch cos I 'll be I 've , I 'll have those right here for your so you 're only paying twenty pounds bloody football bets are n't they ! |
| 17 | Yeah that 's one only you 're only con remember you 're only doing one assignment . |
| 18 | You 've got it fixed in your mind you 're only doing one assignment you know . |
| 19 | So you 're only doing one operation . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're only missing two . ’ |
| 21 | If we do that we 're only adding twenty five pence more revenue |
| 22 | But now they are out as well as all junk food , and I 'm only eating one meal a day . |
| 23 | A good breakfast , dinner and tea , and here I 'm only getting one decent meal a day . |
| 24 | I 'm only paying sixty two now for my house ! |
| 25 | I 'm only memorizing one liners . |
| 26 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |
| 27 | Forty five quid , she 's , she 's gon na be only doing sixty , seventy hours a week ! |
| 28 | Apprentice apprentice boys in th in the foundry were only getting five shillings a week . |
| 29 | We were only given ten on the first day . |
| 30 | You what , well come on we were only doing fifty on the way back |