Example sentences of "[was/were] only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've done very well cos there 's four we 've got five questions and we were only asked for four . |
| 2 | You were only saved by this new wonder drug , penicillin . ’ |
| 3 | But such innovations were only applied to certain traffic flows , and the old order of vacuum-braked or unfitted wagons , sprawling marshalling yards and generally lavish siding provision was allowed to linger on . |
| 4 | It includes Conwy and Caernarfon , whose castles were only begun in 1283 and not finished until 1292 , and it has therefore been suggested that it was made over a period of years . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course we were only invited for ten days or so . ’ |
| 6 | Her shoes came all the way from America , where such things were only worn by famous film-stars . |
| 7 | Final regulations were only received in early December , and regulations for calculating transitional support were not received until mid-December . |
| 8 | Secondly , several explanatory variables were difficult to measure and were only measured at one point in time . |
| 9 | And strange to say , it had coal fires in the winter , huge coal fires to keep it warm , or attempt to do , and most of the classrooms were only divided by portable partitions so that while we went from class to class as the two or three years went by , it really was in one long building and quite adequate for the time . |
| 10 | Indeed they were only introduced after much discussion and some opposition from the auditing industry . |
| 11 | Common bile duct stones were only shown in 10 patients ( 25% ) . |
| 12 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |
| 13 | As has been described , radiometer readings are not used in the eventual measure , and were only included in some of the trials as a check . |
| 14 | Standards set by people in the public eye were only blamed by 39 per cent . |
| 15 | In their futile endeavour Joseph Chamberlain and his contemporaries were only re-enacting in modern dress the plot of the mideighteenth-century drama , by proceeding as if a common will and desire to be subordinate existed when it did not . |
| 16 | There was a shortage of Brownings , and his little flotilla of airborne cavaliers in their Supermarine Spitfire MK 1s , powered by 1,030 horsepower Merlin II engines , were only armed with four machine guns each . |
| 17 | By this time the port was the third largest in England for imports , after London and Liverpool , and was only beaten into fourth place for exports by Newcastle . |
| 18 | In fact he was only beaten in this twice on Ulster roads . |
| 19 | ‘ But he was only beaten by four lengths in the fastest time of the night . ’ |
| 20 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 21 | He also received the personal support of the former President ousted by Ould Taya , Mohammed Khouna Ould Haydalla , who was only freed from internal exile in 1991 , and of Col. Djibril Ould Abdullahi , Ould Taya 's former deputy and Interior Minister until February 1990 [ see p. 37239 ] . |
| 22 | The first mosaic in Jordan was only excavated in 1880 , since when numerous examples have been uncovered . |
| 23 | It all looks polished , but that was only achieved with some difficulty . |
| 24 | This was only achieved after major consultations with employers , professional bodies and educationists . |
| 25 | But access outside their own particular areas was only achieved by those issued with special access cards that had to be signed by one of the guards . |
| 26 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 27 | When he invited farmers through the Darlington and Stockton Times to consider growing mushrooms as a way of diversifying he received well over 100 calls although he was only looking for ten . |
| 28 | Presumably most people 's dreams were not interpreted as being messages from the deities , as even Gilgamesh was only favoured with two or three of these in his lifetime . |
| 29 | Fortunately the Palace directors put a prohibitive price upon his transfer , and he stayed with the club , set up a new goal-scoring record of 36 league goals in his first season ( from just 34 appearances ) , topped the Division 3(S) charts for that campaign and his output was only exceeded by two men in the entire Football League . |
| 30 | The stone castle was only developed at all widely in the eleventh century , when the large keep , fort and dwelling-house in one , of which the Tower of London is a particularly fine example , came into fashion among men of exceptional wealth . |