Example sentences of "was only [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was the only time we kept something from her and even then it was only for a short time , ’ says Mike . |
| 2 | But … but , as Mama said , as long as we kept it clean and it was only for a short time … |
| 3 | I had n't had any kind of pain relief — well , there was n't time ! — but the pain , although very intense , was only for a short time , so it was easy for me to bear . |
| 4 | It was only for the last three years of his life , from 1630 to 1633 , that he served as a country parson , as Vicar of Bemerton in Wiltshire and Canon of Salisbury . |
| 5 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 6 | It was only with the political readjustments which followed Edward IV 's return from exile in 1471 that Gloucester can really be said to have acquired an independent power base . |
| 7 | It was only with the political readjustments which followed Edward IV 's return from exile in 1471 that Gloucester can really be said to have acquired an independent power base . |
| 8 | It was only with the greatest of difficulty that the League could be persuaded to do its job in Danzig . |
| 9 | It was only with the greatest difficulty that Peter could imagine the mechanics that must have led to his own conception . |
| 10 | It was only with the greatest difficulty that the crew managed to carry out an emergency landing at Detroit . |
| 11 | The opening phase of the war , however , produced domestic difficulties and grievances not dissimilar to those experienced by Edward 's father and grandfather ; and it was only with the military successes and material gains of the 1340s that a change in attitude to war amongst both the nobility and the commons became apparent . |
| 12 | 14–16 ) was right to say that it was only with the Peloponnesian War that the real migration from country to city took place . |
| 13 | It was only with the American-led development from the 1900s of geriatric medicine as a new specialty , followed in the interwar years by self-help books and clubs encouraging older people to keep fit , travel , keep working , and — at least from the 1950s — stay sexually active , that informed European opinion began once more to swing towards a positive view of ageing . |
| 14 | In Gwynedd the argument was only over a few hundred dwellings . |
| 15 | It was only over the last six holes that Faldo put a spurt on . |
| 16 | But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents . |
| 17 | Since the disagreement was only about the implicit extension of conventions they all recognized at a more abstract level , they could all be said to be soft conventionalists . |
| 18 | It was only during the early decades of the present century that English studies ( or , more simply , " English " ) in its recognizably modern disciplinary form began to offer an educationally significant challenge to the intellectual and cultural prestige long invested in classics . |
| 19 | Since there is also other well known evidence collected by Sachs , Kirkpatrick , Zaslaw and others from L'Affilard , Pajot , la Chapelle , Marguet , Quantz , Pasquali , Choquel , Engramelle et al. , indicating that from 1717 to 1775 minuets were danced both fast and slow , anywhere between MM 53 and 80 per bar , is it really likely that it was only during the 1780s that musicians of the time just happened to slow down the minuet , playing only the bottom side of minuet tempos and not the top side then to speed up again afterwards by the 1790s and 1800s ? |
| 20 | Gremlin probably the species most recently to enter the catalogue of supernatural beings , for it was only during the Second World War that these misty GNOME-like creatures were blamed by British and American pilots and navigators for any trouble which assailed their aircraft . |
| 21 | It was only during the 1980s that it was finally laid to rest , enabling BR to run a fully modernised and streamlined freight system . |
| 22 | But it was only during the past year that she had realized that they were — in the eyes of people like Felicity , at any rate — very badly off . |
| 23 | He was convinced that it was only to the true Catholic that God gave the power to write ‘ authentic and inspiring music ’ . |
| 24 | Until then I had succeeded in holding the impinging world at bay as well as in the desperate attempt to establish my own identity , but it was only at a bitter cost to myself . |
| 25 | Cable & Wireless said the transaction was only at a preliminary stage but the talks were taking place on the basis of Hong Kong Telecom 's average price last month . |
| 26 | It was only at the last moment that the real or unreal nature of an escape project was finally determined . |
| 27 | In fact , it was largely through the middle-class and scientific bias of the new provincial colleges that English Language , Literature , and History came to serve as a so-called " poor man 's classics " , and it was only at the very end of the century that Oxbridge became sufficiently concerned to begin to succumb to the then " national demand " for such studies and introduce new " Schools " and " Tripos " regulations that would allow the ancient institutions to take a lead in these new areas . |
| 28 | Those engaged in classifying creatures in museums worked anyway with dead ones ; it was only at the very end of the nineteenth century that the collecting of dead animals and dead birds gave way to the careful observation of living ones , using binoculars . |
| 29 | For example , in Caquezo and Rio Negro in Colombia corn and potato yields have improved 200 and 90 per cent respectively on hillside farms which were able to adopt the improved technology ( Sepuldeva 1980 ) , although this example was only on a limited scale . |
| 30 | I assured him I was only on a romantic , misty-eyed mission , though secretly I was wishing I 'd sent the birthday card instead to Winston Place . |