Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National campaigns , like the support for Edward VIII during the abdication crisis of 1936 , and the portrayal of the BUF as a peace movement in the later 1930s , either fell on deaf ears or were only partially successful in changing the focus of fascist politics from the parish pump and the anti-immigrant concerns of the East End of London to wider issues . |
| 2 | In the East these restrictions were either almost unknown , as in the Ottoman Empire , or were only slowly winning acceptance , as in Russia . |
| 3 | Many village economies became more and more market orientated , but much of this increasingly commercialized production went untaxed , or was only lightly taxed . |
| 4 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |
| 5 | She would ring Julius at home , with messages that were only just important enough for her to justify ringing his private number . |
| 6 | When direct dealing costs , brokerage and VAT were included they tended to help filter out the trades that were only marginally profitable and hence raised the overall profitability . |
| 7 | He sang an endless string of tuneful but meaningless words that were only very loosely attached to the long , narrative poem that went on inside his head . |
| 8 | Travel has undoubtedly broadened our culinary horizons and ingredients that were only ever found in markets on holidays abroad are now readily available in specialist shops and large supermarkets . |
| 9 | The taller of the pair was chewing on a chicken leg and leaning on a sword that was only marginally shorter than the average man . |
| 10 | ‘ Manchester United offered me a contract that was only just better than the one I was on at Ayresome Park . |
| 11 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 12 | As the first night of the Hochhauser Season approached , Suzi Hoflin found herself increasingly torn between dread and a curious sense of wild exhilaration that was only partly to do with the excitement of appearing in a professional production . |
| 13 | If this does not happen we could be facing the appalling prospect of over half the UK 's coal production coming from a method that was only initially allowed as an emergency War-time contingency . |
| 14 | As soon as I loosened my grip the tiniest fraction — say to alter the angle of insertion from one that caused grievous bodily harm to one that was only very uncomfortable — the damned thing sprang into a new incarnation as a frisbee and shot across the room . |
| 15 | Survival curves were identical for patients who were and were not operated on and were only slightly worse than expected for the general population matched for age . |
| 16 | Over a third ( 38% ) of visitors came from in or near Edinburgh , but those from parts of Scotland outside the Edinburgh area ( 19% ) were outnumbered by visitors from elsewhere in the UK ( 27% ) , and were only slightly more numerous than those from overseas ( 16% ) . |
| 17 | They had been built just before the war and were only now being used for their intended purpose . |
| 18 | After 1560 , this new English church was engaged in the task of establishing its traditions and defining its boundaries , a process which lasted well over a century and was only effectively completed by the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | The Hebrew text of Ben Sira , which accompanied the sectarians of Qumran and the defenders of Masada , was lost in the early Middle Ages and was only partially recovered in the Cairo Geniza at the end of the last century . |
| 20 | On Sunday , August 14th. 1682 , Richard Baxter was in great pain and weakness , and was only just able to preach twice . |
| 21 | ‘ He was the best horse I 've trained and was only just getting going again after being off the track for nearly a year . ’ |
| 22 | He was attacked by Dark Elf assassins on the road to Avelorn and was only just saved by the timely intervention of a party of Chracian hunters . |
| 23 | And it was sectional organisations such as these which best survived the vicissitudes of the next twenty years , though Wilson 's own creation was bankrupt by 1894 and was only subsequently revived with difficulty . |
| 24 | Now , it was renamed Deseret , and was only technically a part of the United States of America . |
| 25 | Harry did n't really have his heart at the Centre and was only there to please his wife . |
| 26 | I confirm to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) that the exemption level was introduced at £15,000 many years ago and was only recently raised to £45,000 . |
| 27 | The ‘ Dutch Cap ’ was not introduced by the German physician Mensinga until the 1880s and was only ever used by a minority of women , despite its promotion by clinics . |
| 28 | What she craved was the security of marriage and was only too pleased when Charles began to take her seriously during the summer of 1980 . |
| 29 | The present landlord was all too eager to keep up his predecessor 's reputation in the matter of hollands , and was only too delighted to dispense it to as many Lionisers who requested it . |
| 30 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |