Example sentences of "[was/were] only [verb] [prep] [art] [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 | Even in India , where railway-building developed rapidly between the 1860s and 1880s , the crucial feeder lines most important to the exploitation of India 's resources were only built in the twenty years before the First World War . |
| 3 | In situ hybridizations on injected embryos showed that , at this developmental stage , transcripts of eng-2 were only detected in the dorsal portion of the neural keel at the midbrain-hindbrain boundary ( Fig. 4 e ) . |
| 4 | On the morning of my visit the courts were only dealing with a limited number of very minor matters , mostly drink related . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He felt detached , as if he was floating high up above them and the executioners were only playing with the useless bundle of flesh that had once been his body . |
| 9 | The nauseating taste of the worm-cakes and the humiliation of the treatment were only outweighed by the sheer relief of being freed from an incessant itching in his backside . |
| 10 | I began to feel , as I had always felt with my aunts , that personal affairs were unimportant : we were only sticks in the great river of history that was sweeping us along . |
| 11 | The last buildings to be completed were those of the Banca Commerciale which were only finished in the first quarter of the twentieth-century . |
| 12 | Later in the election campaign , he was driven to comment again : ‘ I wish to point out that the SDLP were only admitted to the Socialist International by my credentials . |
| 13 | England triumphed 4–1 and Jack was only beaten in the last 90 seconds when the game was well won . |
| 14 | However , the Vauxhall Sport result , where he was only beaten by the official team Subarus of Richard Burns and Alister McRae and finished ahead of the new Ford Escort Cosworths of Gwyndaf Evans , has provided sufficient encouragement for him to tackle the next round of the Open series , the Pirelli International on April 17/18 . |
| 15 | At its strongest , sexuality within holy matrimony was only justified as a necessary part of reproduction . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The child was only freed from a fume-filled car when her frantic mother began knocking on the locked garage door . |
| 18 | John Heminges said they were dark , cruel plays , and that Will was only looking at the black side of people . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was only saved by the quick thinking of 2 paramedics . |
| 21 | It was only licensed for a hundred people . |
| 22 | Medical advice , like wet-nursing , was only followed by the wealthy , and may explain their inferior infant mortality rates . |
| 23 | ‘ I was only aiming for the British record , ’ Wooderson declared in a state of shock which caused him sleepless nights for a week . |
| 24 | The vast unclouded duck-egg-blue semi-circle of sky , like a protractor on the horizon , was only broken by the occasional windmill or fringe of acid-yellow poplars or milk-green gum trees . |
| 25 | DRTF1/E2F binding activity was only detected in the anti-Rb immunoprecipitates ( compare tracks 2 to 3 ) ; the JM cell extract depleted with anti-Rb had reduced levels of the Rb complex ( compare tracks 4 to 5 , depleted complex indicated by ‘ a ’ ) . |
| 26 | It is customary to refer to autistic children rather than autistic people because the first account of the syndrome was only written in the 1940s by Dr Leo Kanner who said : |
| 27 | Agriculture was briefly disrupted and a manufacturing recession , exacerbated by a drop in military orders after the Crimean War , a severe financial crisis in 1858 , and a fall in cotton imports during the American Civil War , was only overcome in the mid 1860s . |
| 28 | Data was only recorded for the near contract , excluding the delivery month , because volume was low in the deferred contracts and in the near contract during the delivery month . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The 1901 President of the National Free Church Council was only pointing to the obvious when he told his audience that there was throughout the country and Empire ‘ an irresistible movement towards co-operation , combination , collectivism , solidarity , centralisation … |