Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [was/were] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Greene M.R. 's substantive sense of unreasonableness was only ever one aspect of review . |
| 2 | With a deep , reassuring certainty Gina knew that for both of them the rhapsody of love was only just beginning . |
| 3 | In 1786 , when the true age of man was only just beginning to be appreciated , Anglo-Saxon remains were first identified as such . |
| 4 | Müller 's expression of concern was only too genuine . |
| 5 | For a moment Robert thought she might have had her feet bound , and then he realized that her problem was simply that her face-mask was now so in line with Islamic law that her field of vision was only about six inches to the left and right of her . |
| 6 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 7 | The general standard of driving was only slightly above that of the average twelve-year-old at the dodgems . |
| 8 | This difference in mortality was only partly explained by differences in age , smoking , systolic blood pressure , height , and plasma cholesterol and blood glucose concentrations . |
| 9 | In 1980 , UK bank-lending to industry was only around 22% of GDP , whereas in France the figure was 30% , in West Germany almost 34% and in Japan around 51% . |
| 10 | The number of viable acini isolated in pancreatitis induced by caerulein was only about 30% of that obtained from the intact pancreas . |