Example sentences of "was [verb] only [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 2 | She obeyed , shivering , for the basement was heated only by a miserly , inefficient little oil stove . |
| 3 | The cosy harshness was broken only by a pair of plastic houseplants and by prints of country scenes on the walls . |
| 4 | The dead silence was broken only by a regular drip , drip , drip . |
| 5 | A players ' strike was averted only after a top-level six-hour meeting last week , but Fry revealed some players were still not happy with their pay-slips , allegedly short of £60 . |
| 6 | It was happening only to a minority . |
| 7 | And if the ‘ mixed economy ’ was seen only as a framework , then like the scaffolding surrounding a building , it would be dismantled when the task in hand had been completed . |
| 8 | The levels of IgA anti-myeloperoxidase did not differ from the control group in any of the disease states , whereas IgA anti-lactoferrin was significantly ( p<0.01 ) more common in Crohn 's disease , although it was seen only in a minority of the patient sera ( 6 of 51= 12% ) . |
| 9 | She knew perfectly well that he was not very interested in paintings and that he was looking only for a secluded place where he could kiss her . |
| 10 | Moreover , it is not true that prior to the nineteenth century ( or eighteenth , depending on when the change was said to occur ) sexual deviance was conceptualized only as a form of behaviour . |
| 11 | Kurtz 's own experiment demonstrated positive transfer ( to a verbal paired-associate task ) in subjects given same — different pre-training , but unfortunately the comparison was made only with a group given no pre-training at all . |
| 12 | His career should have reached its climax in the great Franco-Scottish chateaux of Fonthill ( 1849 ) for the Duke of Westminster and Buchanan ( 1851–53 ) for the Duke of Montrose , but the first was built only in a much reduced and quite different form while Buchanan suffered from the late substitution of plate glass for the mullioned windows which were an indispensable element of his style . |
| 13 | I have concluded that either a ) the database was saved only to a floppy disk and taken away by your student , or b ) it was a WORKS database and was irretrievably lost when my hard disk crashed last year . |
| 14 | The new Marxist government was saved only by a Cuban expeditionary force of at least 20,000 men , with logistical back-up from the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | His round of 70 was marred only by a double bogey at the twelfth and a bogey at the thirteenth . |
| 16 | Under the new arrangement , which had been hotly contested by France and was approved only on a majority vote , each member state was to be allowed 15,000 two-month permits a year which would allow unlimited cabotage rights within the EC . |
| 17 | It was flanked by two towers and its entrance was reached only by a narrow stairway , but by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a fortress . |
| 18 | It was lit only by a hurricane lamp — I had no mod cons — but the gentle light was reliable , and made no noise . |
| 19 | The interior of the bus was lit only by a small torch made to look like an old lamp , the type you see in Westerns , and from what I could see I was glad there was no more light . |
| 20 | Diving down to a few hundred feet over Hal Far , Müncheberg then claimed another at 0754 as it was landing , but having no witness of this was credited only with a probable , although it was subsequently included in his score . |
| 21 | For Miss Green , Lee 's appointment was perceived as an explicit threat simply because in the previous year , renewal of the Cassell Trust 's grant had not been easily secured and had been made on the understanding that the 1930 renewal was to extend only for a further and final two years . |
| 22 | This type of decoration , consisting of individually stitched beads , was found only among a few of the Plateau tribes . |
| 23 | When John Howard died , ‘ Texas ’ was known only to a small number of Mexicans , American Indians and the occasional settler who had been thrown out of , or wandered away from , the established ‘ colonies ’ to the north and east . |
| 24 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 25 | The prosecution claimed Jean-Marc Brennez was somebody Miss Giles had made up and the reason it was billed only as a surprise film was because she knew she did not have the right to show it . |
| 26 | The result was , however , that the most important change in Roman life was observed only at a superficial level . |
| 27 | Until recently Saddam Hussein was supported only by a lunatic fringe in the Soviet Union ; the leader of Pamyat , an anti-Semitic group , praised him for standing up to Zionism . |
| 28 | In fact the people 's committees were a genuinely spontaneous growth in which communist agitation was involved only to a minor extent . |
| 29 | Once again Harry 's deep reluctance was overcome only by a deeper fear of what Deuce might do if he disobeyed . |
| 30 | Each band was identified only by a number , and they were marked by adjudicators sitting behind closed doors . |