Example sentences of "and it [was/were] only [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mrs Bahia 's body was burned beyond recognition and it was only during the post mortem that a pathologist found the wounds . ’ |
| 2 | During his lifetime Marxism scarcely penetrated socialism in France , the main revolutionary nation of the period , and it was only with the growth of a strong Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) in Germany after 1870 that Marx and Engels ' ideas began to be a major influence on European socialism . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But … but , as Mama said , as long as we kept it clean and it was only for a short time … |
| 5 | The three others rose to leave and it was only at the very last moment that he added , almost casually : ‘ What message were you supposed to phone to the American Consulate ? ’ |
| 6 | We did n't know where it was and it was only at the end of the exhibition , when everything was being dismantled , that we found the piece hidden away and realised what had happened . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The land tax accounted for the lion 's share of total government revenue throughout the 1870s and 1880s , and it was only towards the end of the century that it accounted for less than 50 per cent of tax income . |
| 9 | Oxbridge institutions , though , were slow to respond to such trends and it was only towards the end of the century that calls from the ancient universities to accept a " national " role began to be heeded . |
| 10 | On the way back to Harwich , the newspapers did a marvellous job of keeping my mind off things , and it was only on the last leg of the journey that the butterflies started to flutter again . |
| 11 | And it was only on the final day of their trip to London that the Hit Men took the tiny teenager into the recording studio . |
| 12 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
| 13 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 14 | At one time boundaries were , in the main , marked by a white line , and it was only after a number of years of requesting the TCCB that in matches organised by them a rope be used to denote the boundary that this regulation was implemented , if my memory serves me correctly , for the 1983 season . |
| 15 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 16 | Again , according to Escoffier himself a Paris factory , the Maison Fontaine took up the canned tomato industry , the whole department of the Vaucluse started to specialise in the same business , and it was only after the events recorded by him that Italy and America introduced their own versions of canned tomatoes . |
| 17 | For a century and a half the subject of sexuality was taboo in much of Western society and it was only after the Second World War that this taboo decayed sufficiently for a body of formal knowledge concerning sexuality to be scientifically built up . |
| 18 | During the inter-war years commuting was encouraged by the railway companies and by speculative builders and it was only after the Second World War that the more widespread use of the car and the continuing electrification of the railways allowed the commuting zone to be extended further . |
| 19 | Elise 's parents had been involved in that accident , too , and it was only after the two cousins lost their families that they became so close . |
| 20 | For example , when Perk disappeared she was wearing a yellow dress and it was only after the second time that I realised the significance of Gail ( Perk 's older sister ) finding a yellow ribbon in Mr Elder 's ( the lodger ) drawer . |
| 21 | St John 's , Antigua did , in fact , see something approaching a Test match , and it was only in the final hour that England lost . |
| 22 | Pomerania was still experiencing the flight from the land into the cities over 40 years after its main impact in the rest of Europe , and it was only in the years 1925–33 that the mainly German-speaking Pomeranian towns of Lauenburg , Bütow , Rummelsburg , Neustettin , Belgard , Kolberg , Köslin and Stolp expanded with the absorption of country dwellers . |
| 23 | For many years Eikon Basilike remained discredited , and it was only in the middle of the twentieth century that the researches of F. F. Madan finally proved that the book was in fact based on papers written by the King in captivity , copies of which fell into Gauden 's hands ; and that Gauden had sent the draft of the book to the King and received his comments and corrections before it was published . |
| 24 | ‘ Every time Subotica looked to have her beaten she came at him again and it was only in the last two strides that she lost . |
| 25 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |
| 26 | Although electrical excitability in the nervous system had been demonstrated before the beginning of the nineteenth century , it was not until the late nineteenth century that it was shown that the brain was spontaneously electrically active Jeannerod 1985 ) , and it was only in the 1930s , after the invention of the valve amplifier , that it was possible to make meaningful records of this activity . |
| 27 | She was thirty-nine now , and it was only in the past two years that she had put on weight . |
| 28 | Both he and Eadmer had written their Histories down to 1120 without mentioning these texts , and it was only from the Canterbury monks that William of Malmesbury now learnt that these were the texts quoted by Lanfranc fifty years earlier . |
| 29 | As for her voice , it seemed to be down at her elbow somewhere , and it was only by a kind of automatic reflex that she was singing at all . |
| 30 | Even so , Police Constable Clifford nearly hit her , and it was only by a combination of his skill and the excellent condition of his car 's brakes that he was able to stop a fraction of a second before knocking her down . |