Example sentences of "only [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Most four-day matches have not only been a better preparation for Test cricketers but have also produced generally more interesting cricket .
2 In the Titan he had only been a partial paladin — merely part of a vaster amplified body which also comprised Tundrish and Valence and Zed Juron and , oh yes , Akbar too .
3 On the contrary , the development of such instruments has only been a first step , preparatory to examining the reasons people differ on such traits .
4 He had given up trying to explain to Willi that Therese was no longer a star , had not been a star for eighteen years , and even then had only been a small rising star .
5 It had only been a brief talk and nothing improper was intimated .
6 He 'd closed his eyes once in the last forty hours , and that had only been a restless doze in the back of the car on the way to the border .
7 There had only been a few sharp yelps of pain .
8 If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable .
9 But Derek Law , deputy director of the SSD , said there had only been a few teething problems .
10 Even in the early 1960s there had only been a few brave individuals .
11 He was walking towards a new life , a kind of freedom which had only been an idealistic daydream for nearly sixty years .
12 Not only are the young maidens of India swooning in their thousands but a host of saris , long married , have suddenly developed the mothering instinct .
13 Not only are the external stakeholders different parties , needing a different rational analysis to justify the decision , but it seems important to convince that group of stakeholders that managers have taken their interests fully into account in the internal negotiation process .
14 Not only are the technical and organizational problems huge but it is not clear that we even have the intellectual concepts needed to talk about the issues we face .
15 Not only are the two major parties united in favouring a property tax ; in the past , they were united in fiercely opposing such a tax .
16 Not only are the New Compact Pampers less effort for mums , but they 're more environmentally friendly too — as they use 20% less raw material and are more efficient to transport .
17 And not only are the major brewers at fault .
18 This is because there is no straightforward syntactic explanation of the ambiguity : not only are the lexical units identical for the two interpretations , but they are identically grouped , too .
19 I consider that one of the great benefits of public investigation is that not only are the guilty found guilty but the innocent are exonerated if false charges are made .
20 Kubla Khan possesses a great deal of the confidence of Frost at Midnight , but lacks its tranquillity , not only are the creative forces violent :
21 As it is used in the draft poem it seems to imply that not only are the decadent versions of primitive sexual rituals inane , the god dead and impotent , however passionate the rituals of his worship , but that even the ultimate act of martyrdom is a sexual indulgence .
22 In the Berg judgment , Mr Justice Hobhouse considered the timing of Union Discount 's alleged reliance on the 1982 accounts : ‘ Furthermore , there would only be a limited period of time within which it would be reasonably foreseeable that a bank or discount house would rely upon a given set of audited accounts .
23 Conditions ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) alone clearly are not enough and there can only be a limited number of ways of thinking of conditions which give the same results as ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) .
24 The unusual juxtaposition of these two words can only be a subconscious association in the author 's mind with the well-known carol , The Twelve Days of Christmas whose repetitive chorus ends , ‘ And a partridge in a pear-tree . ’
25 The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse .
26 The sun must only be a rare visitor to this mysterious landscape where spring flowers push through the slowly melting ice .
27 Though from what I 've read about eighteenth-century Eton , anything that came after that could only be a pleasant relief . ’
28 Air transport moves quickly and this excellent book can only be a 1992 snapshot of a complex industry — however it is expensive .
29 It was for them that Paul Rotha spoke when he declared : ‘ The dialogue film , at its best , can only be a poor substitute for the stage . ’
30 It is an important test , for impotence will not only be a poor recommendation of Community cohesion ; it could make it all the more difficult to stem the tide of bloody anarchy that could so easily engulf large tracts of Europe which we recently rejoiced to see set free .
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