Example sentences of "was only [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England triumphed 4–1 and Jack was only beaten in the last 90 seconds when the game was well won . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At its strongest , sexuality within holy matrimony was only justified as a necessary part of reproduction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The child was only freed from a fume-filled car when her frantic mother began knocking on the locked garage door . |
| 6 | John Heminges said they were dark , cruel plays , and that Will was only looking at the black side of people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was only saved by the quick thinking of 2 paramedics . |
| 9 | It was only licensed for a hundred people . |
| 10 | Medical advice , like wet-nursing , was only followed by the wealthy , and may explain their inferior infant mortality rates . |
| 11 | ‘ I was only aiming for the British record , ’ Wooderson declared in a state of shock which caused him sleepless nights for a week . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 14 | 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 : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | The interior was only lit by the golden glow of the fire , and , despite the small dimensions , the corners of the room were still shrouded in shadow . |
| 20 | Furthermore , they doubted whether the new , austere Protestant beliefs had in fact appealed to the laity , suggesting instead that Protestantism proved highly unpopular and was only imposed on the English people through force , by means of a government-sponsored process which met with great difficulties , and was only completed late in Elizabeth I 's reign . |
| 21 | ( 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 . |
| 22 | We allmost fainted with fright and was only stayed from the same fate by the hand of his Lordship , who handed the keeper the dove ( fake ) the keeper shut its hand and with a gurgling noise vanished with a clang of its lid , and all went pitch . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Agreement was only reached following a fierce debate over the question of radioactive waste . |
| 26 | But then what else could she have expected as she was only clad in a thin night-gown . |
| 27 | While the glucose dependent insulin release was reduced by treatment with 5 and 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A for eight days , the cholecystokinin-8 stimulated amylase secretion was only impaired at the higher dose of 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A. Insulin promotes the synthesis of amylase by a direct effect on exocrine pancreatic cells via the insuloacinar axis . |
| 28 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 29 | As far as the hunger and satiety sensations ( Table ) were concerned , a significant difference was only observed at the sixth hour with hunger being significantly more marked under placebo than under psyllium ( 73 ( 6 ) v 54 ( 6 ) , p=0.05 ) and satiety more prolonged under psyllium than under placebo ( 44 ( 7 ) v 21 ( 6 ) , p=0.05 ) . |
| 30 | Anthony 's mother , Stella , 44 , threw bricks at the dog which was only dragged off the screaming youth after two neighbours attacked it with an iron bar . |