Example sentences of "was [adj] only [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walpole , who had kept his hands almost clean , began the task of rebuilding , a task that was possible only with the cooperation of the Bank of England and the East India Company in taking up some of the over-issued stock . |
| 2 | Rejecting defence arguments that Noriega was a prisoner of war — he had been captured as a result of the December 1989 US invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] — US District Judge William M. Hoeveler stated that the sentence was reflective only of the evidence presented during the trial and not of the wider aspects of the case . |
| 3 | It was relieved only by the arrival of Lancelot M. Henly as Secretary . |
| 4 | The Prudential appealed , contending that there were two contracts and that stamp duty was payable only for the land and the works completed on 18 October 1989 . |
| 5 | Stamp duty was payable only on the consideration for the acquisition of a partly developed site and not , in addition , on the purchaser 's payments to the developer for completing the construction under a separate development agreement made at the same time as the sale agreement . |
| 6 | Ironic reserve was explicit only on the face of the organist who had known three of his predecessors . |
| 7 | Among those with carcinoma of the floor of the mouth , which was second only to the tongue as the most common site , 55 ( 76% ) had a history of smoking . |
| 8 | There was a strong babble of concerned voices , a thicket of hands reaching out to steady him , but Li Shai Tung was conscious only of the way his skin stung as if it were stretched too tightly over his bones — how his eyes smarted as if hot water had been thrown into them . |
| 9 | He was conscious only of the pulpit and his sketch-pad . |
| 10 | In that case , this House was concerned only with the position of the Crown in law enforcement actions . |
| 11 | Thornburgh , who was about to leave the government in order to contest a Senate vacancy , insisted that he was concerned only with the jurisdiction of federal judges , and not with the rights or wrongs of the abortion issue . |
| 12 | Homage was not concerned with spiritual functions : it was concerned only with the tenure of land , and the act of homage was one of the main foundations of social organization . |
| 13 | Today she was hungry only for the house . |
| 14 | Monetarists had previously maintained that money was neutral only in the medium and long run , implying that there was some scope , albeit limited , for policy activism in the short run . |
| 15 | As a private registry it was available only to the trading partners , and not to third parties interested in knowing whether a given shipment was sold , pledged , or had taken place . |
| 16 | Two of the Actuarial typists were then smuggled in to the delight of the all male audience and sang ‘ Three Little Girls ’ along with ‘ Nobby ’ Knox , who was distinguishable only by the fact that he was the one not wearing a mini-skirt . |