Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 2 | On occasion it was vital in a really bad case to carry out a tracheostomy — that is , to put a small tube into the trachea or windpipe , below the level of the swelling which is causing the breathing difficulty — but this was only rarely required . |
| 3 | This was only here to drive down wages and conditions of our members . |
| 4 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |
| 5 | This was only partly due to organisational weaknesses ( size of authorities , confusion about accountability ) negating effective contributions from members with appropriate expertise . |
| 6 | This was only partly explained by Gloucester 's territorial interests in the north , which by their very nature gave him authority only in defined areas . |
| 7 | This was only partly true : but for her pock-marked skin she would have been much sought after : as it was she had been pursued more through calculation than desire . |
| 8 | This was only partly explained by earlier births of babies with higher heart rates . |
| 9 | This was only partly explained by Gloucester 's territorial interests in the north , which by their very nature gave him authority only in defined areas . |
| 10 | This was only slightly less true of the industries unconnected with coal and iron . |
| 11 | As expected , increased dietary calcium increased the total calcium in faeces and this was only slightly stimulated by phosphate supplementation of the high calcium diet ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 12 | The Commission 's Report also suggested that the " commercial " side at Stockport should be expanded , but this was only partially acted upon , when in 1869 Greek was made a voluntary subject and Natural Philosophy was introduced as a substitute for Pure Mathematics . |
| 13 | This was only partially examined , but seemed to form part of an east-west range of rooms with at least two floor sequences . |
| 14 | There was only one hotel , owned by a Frenchwoman , and even this was only nominally open . |
| 15 | Ebenezer Howard 's ‘ garden city ’ movement was one man 's attempt to express the desire for a more suburban type of existence , although this was only ever fully developed in Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth . |
| 16 | BOAC clearly had profit on its mind , and wanted its requirements incorporated into the new designs , but these were only partially met . |
| 17 | His doctor offered him drugs that would control the diarrhoea , but these were only partially effective . |
| 18 | But these were only partially successful and a much more systematic assault on the question of poverty came from the capital , with a mixed reception from the local gentry . |
| 19 | On the contrary : emotional attachment to Hitler was rooted in the notion that he represented the ideal of national community and national greatness , that he was leading Germany to greater prosperity , and that , whatever the immediate sacrifices , a bonanza for all was only just over the horizon . |
| 20 | When he split the data into two sub periods , he found that β 1 was only significantly positive during the first subperiod , that is , that the maturity effect is not stable over time . |
| 21 | Potatoes had become the staple food around the middle of the 18th century ( relegating the traditional oatmeal to second place ) , and the results of the outbreak of potato blight in 1846 were only slightly less terrible than those of the much better-known one in Ireland the year before . |
| 22 | Aldfrith may not have had an obvious heir across the late 680s and early 690s , for Osred was only about 8 years old on his father 's death and not born , therefore , until c . |
| 23 | We were surprised to find that the 750 was only partially assembled , having expected to just pull it out of its box and start using it . |
| 24 | That was only partly true . |
| 25 | And then you had a sort of a gadget what would slide the st there was strap coming from the pulley of the oil engine onto There was a loose pulley and there was a gadget , you could slide the strap onto the loose pulley , then that that was only just er turning loose of course , then you slid it back on the fixed and it 's be turning all this shafting along the barn and then there were pulley sets on that and in direct line with crusher and chaff cutter and the scrapping machine you had a a strap form those . |
| 26 | Cos that was only just ten minutes going back . |
| 27 | The only girl we allowed in was Kate and that was only right at the end . ’ |
| 28 | well that was only there |
| 29 | And that was only about a minute of the game gone and I dare say er Ian whose place he 's taking on that left-hand side would have relished that kind of opportunity . |