Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it [was/were] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fond memories of Jerry Lee Lewis who blew up a storm of indignation in the 1950s , not to mention Presley , whose subversive pelvis was banned from television in some American states where it was only permitted to film Elvis-the-Pelvis from the waist upwards . |
| 2 | Accordingly , most products developed were based on large , textual databases and it was only slowly that developers began stretching the medium to deliver images and sound in addition to text . |
| 3 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |
| 4 | During the inter-war years commuting was encouraged by the railway companies and by speculative builders and it was only after the Second World War that the more widespread use of the car and the continuing electrification of the railways allowed the commuting zone to be extended further . |
| 5 | So extensive was the havoc wrought in those two days that it was only many months afterwards that a complete picture began to emerge of what had happened . |
| 6 | Nevertheless liberalism succeeded in destroying the fueros and it was only after its triumph that conservative liberals challenged the maxim that ‘ centralization is neither more nor less than liberty itself ’ . |
| 7 | They caught a glimpse of his robe in the candlelight , but only a glimpse because then he moved into the shadows and it was only by Mordecai 's gestures that they could tell where he was . |
| 8 | It was also recognised that there were patients whose language disorder affected only the processing of written language ( reading and writing ) and others where it was only the processing of spoken language that was impaired . |
| 9 | Oxbridge institutions , though , were slow to respond to such trends and it was only towards the end of the century that calls from the ancient universities to accept a " national " role began to be heeded . |
| 10 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |