Example sentences of "[noun sg] was only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought she 'd found the perfect place to live , yet already it was slipping away and this cosy compartment was only a stage on to something else . |
| 2 | However , the government insisted that the ritual was only an extension of the Niinamesai ceremony ( a 2,000-year-old annual tradition in which the Emperor offered a token of the new rice harvest to the Sun Goddess ) , and as such it was an integral element of Japanese culture . |
| 3 | The car was only a year old . |
| 4 | Despite the referendum result , opponents of the change argued that the vote was only an opinion poll and had no legal force ; the original decision to name the city after Lenin having been taken by the USSR Supreme Soviet , they claimed , it could only be rescinded by its modern equivalent — the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 5 | The terms were staggering to anyone naive enough to think football was only a game . |
| 6 | Holyoak was only a hamlet . |
| 7 | Archaeology was only an excuse for a highly personal interpretation of myth in which Odysseus , seeking ideal beauty , finds it in Helen , surviving in Egypt as a seemingly immortal , ageless goddess . |
| 8 | Such pruning was only a palliative . |
| 9 | girl was only a hollow |
| 10 | Its value abroad was too high for the UK to compete , so its fall was only a question of time . |
| 11 | Your return was only a matter of time . ’ |
| 12 | For one thing , the war was only a matter of a few years in the past and the number of potential suitors must have been severely limited , especially of the right intellect and calibre . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Carson 's place was only a couple of miles away , in a vastly overpriced and overcrowded strip along less than half a mile of the river east from Kew Bridge . |
| 15 | Wilkie was only a friend to whom she chattered . |
| 16 | A counter-attack was only a matter of time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That meeting was only the beginning of a long series of meetings , retreats and counselling sessions which formed the stepping stones for a return to an authentic Christian experience . |
| 19 | He regretted that , but the awful truth was only a murmur away . |
| 20 | On her slender body was only the bathrobe , which fluttered out behind her as she ran into the steaming night . |
| 21 | Not far behind this overall vision of justice came his anxious consideration that the particular saints of each church , for whom the present community was only the trustee , would demand from their trustees a full account of their stewardship down to the most minute particulars . |
| 22 | But , as someone had once said to her — she could n't remember who — hate was only a hair 's breadth away from love . |
| 23 | The Christmas Day morale booster was only the game show host 's second trip outside hospital since his near-fatal crash . |
| 24 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 25 | When the Author arrived at Marham in May 1977 the OCU was only a shadow of its former glory and the training aids , such as the ‘ nav sim ’ were distinctly antiquated . |
| 26 | As he pointed out to Bouilhet , the Revue 's version of his name was only a letter away from an unwanted commercial pun : Faubet being the name of a grocer in the rue Richelieu , just opposite the Comédie-Française . |
| 27 | His embrace was only an accommodation . |
| 28 | Despite this deprivation , and despite the fact that the difference in their age was only a year , he survived the early and mid-1930s much better than did MacDonald . |
| 29 | He 'd done some dreadful things , but my father was only a boy and this man took care of him . |
| 30 | The economics of the base could not explain everything that existed or occurred in the superstructure ; as Marx 's collaborator Engels had suggested , the economy was only the mainspring of history ‘ in the last analysis ’ ( Gramsci , 1971 : 162 ) . |