Example sentences of "[vb -s] that it [was/were] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catt accepts that it was only a minor detail in her boyfriend 's sacking but feels it has a relevance . |
| 2 | The couple have now left Ross on wye , Jonathans girfriend says that it was only a small minority who were involved in racial abuse but it was so unpleasant they now feel they ca n't live there any longer . |
| 3 | It seems that it was only yesterday that singer/songwriter/activist Sinead O'Connor was at the top of the charts and could ‘ do not wrong ’ as far as the record buying public goes . |
| 4 | The reference to ‘ Eventually ’ in the last sentence implies that it was only after a commendable period of restraint that horses were ordered in . |
| 5 | This view was then modified by the ‘ young Hegelians ’ , a group of radical followers and critics of Hegel who argues that it was only the reformed or purified State which could be the source of a just society . |
| 6 | While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes , Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared . |