Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , in fact , natural country with semi-artificial fences which were only slightly altered from their original shape . |
| 2 | This was the outcome of changes in population growth and its age distribution which were only partly compensated for by the marked increase in female participation ratios , especially of those in the 25–60 age groups [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 3 | This is particularly the case when critical attention is being focused on details of spoken language which were only ever intended by the speaker as ephemeral parts , relatively unimportant , of the working-out of what he wanted to say . |
| 4 | The fragmentation of the trade — the implications of which were only dimly perceived at the time — was to become of crucial importance later and will be looked at in more detail below . |
| 5 | An early morning mist had cleared and a fugitive sun glinted on leaves which were only now beginning to yellow and which hung in heavy swathes , almost motionless in the still air . |
| 6 | The approach to Jesus in much of the theology and teaching with which Kierkegaard was familiar tended very much to see him too in that kind of light — as the founder of a religion , as the discoverer and imparter of divine truths , as the exemplar of particular values , which were only accidentally bound up with him , but in principle could be detached from him . |
| 7 | Under his gaze she had to go to the sitting-room where she had slept , while he knew why she went and knelt by the sleeping-bag , which was only just out of his line of sight . |
| 8 | We did find time for some work at Orkney which even produced a few seizures , but we were a little early for the oil traffic which was only just beginning to affect the island . |
| 9 | The value of an officer 's place in an East Indiaman did not lie in the salary , which was only marginally more attractive than that paid to other ship 's officers . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom had a serious balance of payments problem in manufactured goods , which was only partly disguised by the revenue beginning to flood in from North Sea oil , which had a limited life . |
| 11 | I picked him up and stumbled over the rough ground to the back gate of our garden , which was only about twenty yards away . |
| 12 | At Machrie , Kilchoman , the mill has been made into a house and there was a millstone there which was only about two inches thick ; another thin stone was on the south bank of the Saligo river at NR208639 , which is not far away . |
| 13 | He had refused to touch what he called the Stavanger Final Insurance even when he needed the money for his fleet — why should he use it now for what was only indirectly of concern to him ? |