Example sentences of "was only a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was only a powdering of snow in the moat , no water . |
| 2 | ‘ After a week 's work it was satisfying to win against Brighton but it was only a glimmer of hope . ’ |
| 3 | Lucier was accustomed to it : the wry grins as they acknowledged he was only a man in costume ; the superstitious snatching away of their hands for fear he was a little bit more . |
| 4 | it was only a couple of pound a yard . |
| 5 | Underpowered , overweight and outdated , the once 200 strong fleet , affectionately known as ‘ Whistlers ’ was in decline from the mid-1970s , and when major overhauls ceased at BREL Crewe in 1981 it was only a question of time before they disappeared first from top link Eastern Region duties , and finally in 1985 freight workings originating from the North West . |
| 6 | De Gaulle was not immortal , and so it was only a question of time before further attempts could be made to find a sheltered anchorage off the Western European shore . |
| 7 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 8 | It was only a question of time — unless help arrived . |
| 9 | Its value abroad was too high for the UK to compete , so its fall was only a question of time . |
| 10 | I knew from that moment that it was only a question of time — and perseverance on his part — before he would be completely cured . |
| 11 | It was only a question of time . |
| 12 | Not one of these men here came from a lower-lying farm ( except Donald McCulloch , and their place was only a slip of ground between the steep hill and the road ) . |
| 13 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 14 | She did not want him to think , she said , that she was really rich , that was only a kind of joke . |
| 15 | Hence there was only a requirement for access from the south and this has been provided by utilising the existing slip road from Clovenstone Roundabout on Westerhailes Road for traffic joining the bypass and travelling south and by forming a new connection into Baberton Mains View for northbound traffic leaving the bypass . |
| 16 | I was only a refugee at present . |
| 17 | There was only a scattering of snow across the wheatlands , the area which needs it most to moisten the soil for the growing season . |
| 18 | Stan Abbott of Wensleydale Rail Association , which wants passenger trains reinstated on the line , said the new date was only a stay of execution and the pressure needed to be kept up . |
| 19 | It was only a dispute over finance with the Olympic authorities which prevented the EEC from enacting a programme in which the athletes of every Member State would have competed in European Community uniforms , mounted the podium to the strains of Beethoven 's Ninth in place of their own anthems , and totted up a European total of medals . |
| 20 | To others , he would give something called love ; but it was only a reward for loyalty . ’ |
| 21 | Although Warwickshire won the NatWest Trophy in 1989 , it was only a note of encouragement for a county which had under-achieved in the championship for many years . |
| 22 | It just slows you down so that there are no longer enough hours in the day , and then some things get put off and other things are only half-completed and you 're told you need help — an assistant priest , no less , to concentrate , as the Bishop with his unfailing instinct for the wrong word put it , on ‘ the donkey work ’ ( well , perhaps after all I was only a beast of burden , Father McGiff conceded ) to give you ‘ a chance to relax , take life more easily , think a bit more , pray a bit more , meditate ’ . |
| 23 | Fortunately there was only a trickle of water entering the opening . |
| 24 | The petrol tank exploded in a bloom of yellow and red , and then there was only a lot of smoke , with bits falling : bits of wing , bits of wheel , bits of pilot . |
| 25 | In the host mud , there was only a trace of PLTE at the minimum detectable limit and there was roughly a thousand times less PLDE than PLFA ( Table 1 ) . |
| 26 | I remember an officer diving into a culvert during a raid — he thought he had been hit again but it was only a lump of mud on his seat ! |
| 27 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 28 | It was only a matter of degree . |
| 29 | His violent death was only a matter of course given the way he lived . |
| 30 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |