Example sentences of "that it [was/were] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think all of us wish this epidemic would go away , and that it would n't touch us and that it were only small numbers , but the news today clearly shows that it affects each and every one of us . |
| 2 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 5 | Yet so sure of themselves were they , that for 17.5 hours after the blast the power-station management insisted that the reactor remained intact and that it was only an emergency watertank that had exploded . |
| 6 | When he rang Eleanor he would explain that it was only to be a simple snack . |
| 7 | Tug lay very still and concentrated on breathing and the voice went on , so softly that it was only just possible to hear it , even though Doyle 's face was right up against his ear . |
| 8 | It is important to note that it was only the statements of this man and his wife which contained any evidence of Paisley 's knowledge of the crimes , and the juries determined that they were not trustworthy witnesses . |
| 9 | She tried to explain that it was only the symptoms that had gone , and that now we had to tackle the causes . |
| 10 | At the same time the weight of the gold coin declined , the scale of its production was greatly reduced , and , at the end of the period , it too was debased so that it was only 70–80 per cent pure . |
| 11 | Into this somewhat bizarre plot , Hopper built in his odd interjections designed to remind the cinema audience that it was only a movie they were watching , that nothing was real . |
| 12 | He was n't often out of his bed now , and David Beaton had said privately to Bridhe that it was only determination to see the baby born that was keeping the old man alive . |
| 13 | Aircraft landing at LG 05 were seen and a recce of LG 121 confirmed that it was only used as a decoy at night . |
| 14 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Catt accepts that it was only a minor detail in her boyfriend 's sacking but feels it has a relevance . |
| 17 | They told chairman Michael Croucher that it was only by accident they had heard of the proposals and they were concerned that no-one had told them . |
| 18 | In a prison-camp the world you wanted to get to was visible all the time and , although you did not live in it , you knew that it was only a matter of some barbed wire and a few yards away . |
| 19 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
| 20 | Lewis said that the Government thought that it was only necessary , at present , to provide suitable accommodation for the War Office and the Foreign Office , but preliminary steps could be taken towards acquiring the land , and Hall could obtain designs for laying out the whole area . |
| 21 | First , that it was only part of a larger scheme , yet Hope had made the point that the new Foreign Office should conform to a larger plan . |
| 22 | Except that it was only the wealthy that did their two years . |
| 23 | He looked at his watch and saw to his amazement that it was only just after ten . |
| 24 | But where this liberty was not balanced by responsibility the Reformation made man so free under God that it was only a short step to his being free from God . |
| 25 | It was more than a legal victory for Taylor when the judge told the skinhead that it was only his brief 's eloquence that had saved him from prison . |
| 26 | I am in everyone 's bad books because I said that it was only a shop . |
| 27 | The cost to God of his redemptive act is underlined by the fact that it was only achieved through the death of his Son . |
| 28 | The twist to this story is that it was only when the gods lost patience and threatened to draw a veil of darkness across the proceedings , leaving me stranded high and wet ( and rather chilled ) on one of the most rugged landscapes in the land , that I at last took the chance and accepted the offer that had been proffered . |
| 29 | He was firmly convinced that it was only by consolidating working class effort to meet capitalist effort that they would win through to salvation … |
| 30 | Ramsay for one did not like the sound of that , and said so , but Douglas cut him short , assuring that it was only a gesture . |