Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] only a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was only a small-scale study but the results are so striking that it is worth speculating on some of the possible causes of gender bias in the classroom . |
| 2 | Frightened , but believing this was only a passing sense of panic , Monika ran to the church hoping she could calm him . |
| 3 | But this was only a small part of the story . |
| 4 | This was only a temporary setback to the Long March veteran who had survived a number of purges over previous decades when ‘ redness ’ was valued more than ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 5 | This was only a temporary relief , though . |
| 6 | Variations of units having the same name meant that sometimes there was easy money to be made , buying big chauldrons and selling small ones ; but usually this was only a minor nuisance , entailing conversion tables and making international communication a little more difficult . |
| 7 | She would rather talk to Pilade though she knew this was only a sophisticated way of talking to herself . |
| 8 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 9 | The weeding out of the congenitally unfit was only a secondary process , less important than the pressure encouraging most individuals to become fitter . |
| 10 | He thought that the latter were only a small minority . |
| 11 | World War two was only a recent example of what had been an historical constant . |