Example sentences of "were [verb] only on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 2 | Some of the immediate , pressing problems were resolved only on the day of his appointment . |
| 3 | Other classes — peasants and now workers — were accepted only on the terms laid down by the leaders . |
| 4 | According to the official version of events , interceptions were made only on the authority of a warrant issued by the appropriate Secretary of State under his own hand . |
| 5 | The political parties of the narrow and fragmented centre of the political spectrum , from which all governments had to be drawn , were agreed only on the fundamental issue of preserving the Fourth Republic : they had , as it were , reserved their right to disagree on everything else . |
| 6 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 7 | By then they were generally known simply as the Dutch breed and were found only on the east coast of England . |