Example sentences of "only [was/were] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 2 | Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ? |
| 3 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 4 | Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already . |
| 5 | ‘ Not only was he the outstanding leader of our tax practice , ’ said Grant Thornton managing partner David McDonnell , ‘ he was also the architect of its development in the early days . |
| 6 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |