Example sentences of "[was/were] only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more striking were the elephants that once lived on Malta , and were only about a metre in height . |
| 2 | We were only about a yard from the fairway , but we had trouble finding the ball . |
| 3 | Not bad going when you consider that there were only about 15–20 in all in 1975 ! |
| 4 | They came back to England , recruited fellow-Puritans ( so that the people from the Netherlands were only about one-sixth of the whole group ) , hired the Mayflower and sailed across the Atlantic to land at what they called Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts Bay . |
| 5 | And er of course everybody there were only about what half a dozen fitters in those days and erm er as a mark of their profession or trade in those days , they used to wear a white collar you know , with out a tie . |
| 6 | Now there were only between 30 and 40 . |
| 7 | Subsistence pensions , at 40s 0d for a married couple or 24s 0d for a single person , were only to be attained after twenty years of slowly rising rates . |
| 8 | But they were only to be offered upon condition that this created no precedent . |
| 9 | Funding and subsidy schemes were only to be allowed provided they were open to all artists in the Community . |
| 10 | Third , by contrast with a modern bureaucracy , the departments of medieval government were only to a small extent defined by areas in which they worked . |
| 11 | A priori then , it would seem that Ho Chi Minh and his government were only to be regarded as an extension of Soviet power ; an assumption that was to be reinforced by the second constraint which originated in the Department of State . |
| 12 | But Kokoschka and Kraus were to be more comfortable in Berlin , and Loos 's principles were only to be realized on a major scale by the Bauhaus architects . |
| 13 | Then , great kindness and great love were only to be expected and accepted . |
| 14 | Under the Bretton Woods system , exchange rates were only to be changed in the face of fundamental disequilibrium , and GATT was designed to restrict the temptation to raise tariffs . |
| 15 | These funds were only to be disbursed when the compact agreement had been signed . |
| 16 | Star spotters on the other hand were only to happy to see Sir DAvid who 's filming a new TV series aptly enough on plants . |
| 17 | But the cameras were only at one game and Goulding was the sacrificial ‘ bad boy ’ . |
| 18 | For example , recall that when anyone aged thirty today was born , computers were rare ; the standard equipment in all offices was a manual typewriter ; jumbo jets were only at the development stage ; transatlantic phone calls went by cable , not satellite ; and television was virtually unseen outside the developed world . |
| 19 | Baldwins Ltd 's shares were only at 3/6 . |
| 20 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 21 | I knew that you were only on loan . |
| 22 | ‘ You were only on the outskirts of it , ’ said Caspar . |
| 23 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 24 | and had one on New Year 's Eve or Christmas Eve or something , they came in , a couple were passing , well they were only on holidays and they were looking , well our house is different I mean |
| 25 | The first best clothes were only for Sunday and when visitors came . |
| 26 | Supper parties were only for grown , ups . |
| 27 | Your mother used to phone me , although trunk calls in those days were only for emergencies . |
| 28 | Sanatoria , popular by the end of the century , were only for the better-off , apart from some charitable foundations , and in any case had little effect . |
| 29 | These powers of attorney were only for day-to-day transactions . |
| 30 | But they did n't go in a book ; they were only for his friends to read . |