Example sentences of "it [was/were] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reason you get took on , I mean , it were only a borstal when he went were n't it ? |
| 2 | If it were only a matter of alcohol , would a body care ? |
| 3 | And if it were only the future of the Conservative Party that was at stake I would probably agree that electoral chastening would be a good thing . |
| 4 | In her eyes it was only a stepping stone . |
| 5 | It was only a chance that I rang her . |
| 6 | In fact it was only a minute or so from the M27 and we had just passed over the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at Dartford . |
| 7 | It was only a sample . |
| 8 | In London , and to a lesser extent in Oxford and Cambridge , readers could find some recent English literary publications with little effort , but it was only a minority who had the inclination or resources to do so . |
| 9 | Dickens likened the piston of the steam engine to " the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness " , but even by 1815 it was only a minority of the working population who had as yet been cast in the mould of his 1845 Coketowners who , " all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow " . |
| 10 | It was only a receipt from a pawnbroker . |
| 11 | Oh I thought it was crack , it was only a hair anyway ! |
| 12 | Kathleen knew it was only a case of stalling for time , but every day that passed brought new understanding of this enigmatic man who had captured her heart . |
| 13 | But it was only a second |
| 14 | I said my god Lynn , I , it was only a mistake . |
| 15 | You see , even at the time it was only a sign . |
| 16 | But it was true ; it was only a sign of their stupidity or their fear ? — that they were taking him so seriously . |
| 17 | But surely it was only a threat ? |
| 18 | As well as the acceptance by Child of a valid philosophical position for the sociology of knowledge , Jacques Maquet suggested that it was only a threat to those philosophers who saw humans as provided with a spiritual nature that entailed the possibility of transcending economic and social determination through a theoretical ‘ faculty of the true ’ ( Maquet 1973 : 100 ) . |
| 19 | As was normally done , she began to cry ( it was only a scratch ) and everyone crowded around her , uttering words of soul-lifting encouragement , such as ‘ Are ya all right ? ’ . |
| 20 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 21 | But , well it was only a pub |
| 22 | It was only a decade later that Jackie began to learn how to listen to others . |
| 23 | A highly unsuitable drink for an old lady , she thought with satisfaction , and it was only a quarter past twelve ! |
| 24 | It was only a quarter to nine ; not night-time at all . |
| 25 | Soon it was only a quarter of a mile from the ship . |
| 26 | Putting a hand out for the clock , she found it was only a quarter to eight . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was only a question of time — unless help arrived . |