Example sentences of "was only [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Mr Carway who discovered that the holding in Laforza 's parent company , the Jersey-registered AIUK , was only under option to Eagle , not directly owned by it . |
| 2 | The Junior Dining room was only for year 8 to year 13 plus teachers . |
| 3 | But it was only for year . |
| 4 | Here again , builders sometimes have a way of varying the internal party walls without telling anybody , sometimes plaintively observing ( as the troubles that ensue from this fall about their lawyer 's ears ) , " But the contract said the plan was only for identification , " and see head 6 above as to plans . |
| 5 | We did n't want people to think it was only for production and engineering . |
| 6 | She told the audience how she had seen a new state-of-the-art ambulance which was only for use by private patients but staffed and paid for by the NHS . |
| 7 | ‘ You know damn well our ‘ engagement ’ was only for family consumption ! |
| 8 | Compared with such an inexorable path to disaster , still camouflaged by the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the self-seeking aggrandisement of Party bosses , however much it offended social and political sensitivities , was only of fringe importance . |
| 9 | It was not too difficult in the 1960s and 1970s to discern such contradictions in the East European countries , in the form of conflicts among various social groups , and in particular a conflict — which appeared openly from time to time in strikes , protests or even insurrections , and was only with difficulty contained and repressed — between those who control and direct the overall development of society and those whose lives and work are thus planned and regulated from above . |
| 10 | It was at this time that a majority of the British cabinet was only with difficulty dissuaded from opposing an American UN resolution to brand China an aggressor and to introduce sanctions . |
| 11 | No , but no , but obviously no , th the association was only with cricket not with the product , so it was n't enhancing the initial product |
| 12 | Though the basic broad principles of the hierarchy are observable from its inception , probably toward the end of the fifteenth century , it was only gradually that it became elaborated ; and it was only with elaboration that the hierarchy tended gradually to become more rigid and to exert an increasing influence on the attitudes both of the ulema toward their own aspirations and of the people toward the ulema . |
| 13 | Though it was only over dinner that Lisa had begun to realise just how much she needed this rest . |
| 14 | The major tool of management was always employment , for it was only through interest that anything worthwhile could be obtained , for even appointments in mercantile houses at home or abroad could often only be obtained through interest , while all appointments in government service were patronage appointments , in fact if not always in theory . |
| 15 | Yet the massive land-sales of the 1540s and later decades effectively ended the promise of an independent income : Elizabeth 's revenue from Crown estates in 1603 was only about double that of Henry VII in a time of much higher prices . |
| 16 | Any conversation , even if it was only about food , was better than this stalemate . |
| 17 | Karen Silk , defending , said : ‘ He was only at work because he had been asked to do an extra shift . |
| 18 | It was only at night , alone in bed , with the whirr of the ceiling fan to keep her company , that the memory of her crass stupidity swept back . |
| 19 | Even though he was only on attachment from another regiment . |
| 20 | The machine was only on sale between nineteen thirty-six and nineteen forty . |
| 21 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
| 22 | ‘ It is plain that all the indications were that Monsieur Gebrec had taken his own life … it was only on account of my promise to his mother … ’ |
| 23 | Though , ever a man to confuse her , he greeted her pleasantly , ‘ Good morning , darling , ’ and , in case she had n't got the message that the endearment was only on account of their audience , ‘ I 've just been telling my uncle that we 'll be leaving after breakfast . ’ |
| 24 | I did both my sentences at Cookham Wood : I was only on remand at Holloway . |
| 25 | He inhaled and stared at the ceiling ; smoking in bed was something his wife did n't like , it was only on business trips that he managed it , depending on the company . |
| 26 | there and then we went back had a shower went and had something to eat cos it was only like bed , breakfast and evening meal , went and had something to eat and then |
| 27 | cos it was only like sort of eight inches difference and I thought well when I wash 'em they might shrink anyway |
| 28 | It was only after birth that she suffered the injury , and it was then that her rights were encroached upon and she commenced to have rights . |
| 29 | It was only after hospital examination that this was ruled out . |
| 30 | The book says that Eliot 's truest poetry was a form of plagiarism , in the benign sense that ‘ it was only in response to other poetry that Eliot could express his own deepest feelings ’ . |