Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] only [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of the 17th Century therefore , found activity on both manors , but like any work in the preceding years , it was clearly only on a small scale . |
| 2 | And it was not only at the front that people were dying . |
| 3 | It was not only on the question of legatine authority that Anselm went further , and was more explicit , than Lanfranc . |
| 4 | However , it was not only on the Left that the search for radical solutions was being pursued . |
| 5 | And it was not only during the football season that the club enjoyed publicity , for the Arsenal cricketers were regular contenders in the London Evening News Cup , with Chapman as wicket-keeper . |
| 6 | Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795 and is remembered as the ‘ Father of English Potters ’ , but it was not only as a pottery manufacturer that he was renowned and respected in his time . |
| 7 | It was not only in the mission field that such hopes were cherished . |
| 8 | It was not only in the area of economic ideas and cultural criticism that the First World War was to be important to the roots of British fascist thought . |
| 9 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 10 | It was perhaps only in the last ten years that Broadstairs had fully come to realise what treasure trove lay buried in its midst , and plaques began enthusiastically to sprout everywhere . |