Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] only [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The levels of IgA anti-myeloperoxidase did not differ from the control group in any of the disease states , whereas IgA anti-lactoferrin was significantly ( p<0.01 ) more common in Crohn 's disease , although it was seen only in a minority of the patient sera ( 6 of 51= 12% ) . |
| 2 | Acknowledging that austere fiscal policies introduced in July 1988 [ see p. 36698 ] were responsible for the fall , analysts noted it was achieved only at a cost of increased unemployment and bankruptcies . |
| 3 | It was lit only by a hurricane lamp — I had no mod cons — but the gentle light was reliable , and made no noise . |
| 4 | It was opposed only by the centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) led by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano , son of Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas who pioneered land distribution in the 1930s . |
| 5 | When Checkland 's contract came up for renewal , it was renewed only for a token year . |
| 6 | The prosecution claimed Jean-Marc Brennez was somebody Miss Giles had made up and the reason it was billed only as a surprise film was because she knew she did not have the right to show it . |
| 7 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 8 | Before then ( before , that is , the age of the motor roads and the tourists that went with them ) it was known only to the Highlanders , and the hunting , shooting and fishing gentlemen who learned of her from their gillies . |
| 9 | It was derived in the first place from Goethe and Goethe 's Hellenist contemporaries ; and it was modified only by the conviction that the ailments which artists and thinkers of that period had identified in the Germany of their day were now more virulent than ever , while an additional threat was posed by the new diseases of mediocrity and the cult of " progress " ( often associated with politicking and liberalism ) , from which the age of Goethe had been relatively free . |