Example sentences of "was only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkie was only a friend to whom she chattered . |
| 2 | But , well it was only a pub |
| 3 | For a second I thought Marie was with me , but it was only a dream . |
| 4 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 5 | ‘ It was only a dream , ’ I told him . |
| 6 | In one very vivid dream , I remember being shot in the lower back and although it was only a dream we had to swim under a sort of submerged wall in order to escape . ’ |
| 7 | And it was only a dream , and there is no such thing |
| 8 | ‘ We figured that we could bring in artists from the '90s to interpret Hendrix using the computer technology that was only a dream in the '60s , ’ explains Storey . |
| 9 | But it was only a dream , and I 'm still at home . |
| 10 | Because this was only a dream . |
| 11 | ‘ It was only a dream . |
| 12 | ‘ It was only a dream , child . |
| 13 | It was only a decade later that Jackie began to learn how to listen to others . |
| 14 | But it was only a log . |
| 15 | It was only a chance that I rang her . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | They had also made their social entrance at a time when television — so often blamed as another demoralising force — was only a minority pursuit in Britain , with no more than two million viewing licences in 1953 ; and when the commercial TV channel , which was most commonly alleged to be lowering standards , had not even been created . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | So and smashed all the windows and everything in it erm so what 's that and as I say it was only a scrap van er and now he 'd bought the little chapel on the corner . |
| 21 | It was only a sample . |
| 22 | Sandside was only a desert if you were too used to concrete under your boots . |
| 23 | Riding was only a quarter of it . |
| 24 | Yet , for all its self-importance late-medieval Chichester was only a quarter the size of Salisbury in terms of its taxpayers , 869 of them in 1377 . |
| 25 | A highly unsuitable drink for an old lady , she thought with satisfaction , and it was only a quarter past twelve ! |
| 26 | It was only a quarter to nine ; not night-time at all . |
| 27 | Soon it was only a quarter of a mile from the ship . |
| 28 | Putting a hand out for the clock , she found it was only a quarter to eight . |
| 29 | ‘ So the will was only a stop-gap . |
| 30 | Joan Robbins was only a yard away through the fence . |