Example sentences of "[was/were] only [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first they were only fitted with a route-letter box on the front while the side indicator box contained such interesting displays as : STOPPING CAR TO BISPHAM , ALL STATIONS TO BLACKPOOL and SPECIAL TO FLEETWOOD . |
| 2 | On the morning of my visit the courts were only dealing with a limited number of very minor matters , mostly drink related . |
| 3 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
| 4 | For the rest of the decade the working classes were only depicted in a small number of undistinguished films which celebrated or exploited the skills of particular groups of workers . |
| 5 | At its strongest , sexuality within holy matrimony was only justified as a necessary part of reproduction . |
| 6 | The use of small suffix letters after the fleet numbers of the cars from municipal fleets , was only regarded as a temporary measure and it was decided to renumber them , either in gaps in the L.C.C . |
| 7 | The child was only freed from a fume-filled car when her frantic mother began knocking on the locked garage door . |
| 8 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 9 | It was only licensed for a hundred people . |
| 10 | At 38.5 per cent of the vote , this was a respectable result for a candidate who was only supported by a loose group of associates . |
| 11 | ( This exchange system enabled some universities to establish very large collections of theses , but it was very costly , since it depended on the production of multiple copies of theses , and the practise was only operating in a small number of American universities by the start of Worl War II . |
| 12 | ‘ It was only intended as a short-term measure , ’ Schaffer objected , ‘ to keep the valley clear and give us the best possible chance for a manhunt . ’ |
| 13 | It was only halted after a massive nationwide media campaign orchestrated by conservationists , but nearly every year Arizona congressional representatives push for a dam to be built at mile 238 , which would inundate most of the lower Grand Canyon . |
| 14 | Agreement was only reached following a fierce debate over the question of radioactive waste . |
| 15 | But then what else could she have expected as she was only clad in a thin night-gown . |
| 16 | This opposition became more acute when , in 1813 , the liberated areas , where a modern administration was only known as a French imposition , came within the new constitution . |
| 17 | Until recently it was only known from an early black and white photograph . |
| 18 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 19 | The illusion was only to precipitate into a historical fact — the proletariat 's birth and growth — history 's total meaning , to believe that history itself organized its own recovery , that the proletariat 's power would be its own suppression , the negation of the negation . |
| 20 | Flogging was only used as a judicial punishment in a handful of cases each year throughout the 1920s and 1930s , and the birching of young boys ' bottoms was also passing out of favour . |
| 21 | Grandfather was only suffering from a nagging cough and mild flu but he was , after all , somewhat of a grandee in the town because of his wealth . |
| 22 | And it was only entered in a flat race ! |
| 23 | This short manuscript , which was only rediscovered in a private library at the turn of the century , spells out the sort of behaviour that was expected of a young Mughal gentleman in Delhi about 1650 . |