Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] only a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many were convinced that only a proletarian revolution could remove discrimination . |
| 2 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 3 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 4 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 5 | The competition was fierce and only a few could obtain the valuable passports , visas and tickets to leave the confines of China . |