Example sentences of "of [noun] was only " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the term ‘ insanity ’ were not used , this would be more obvious ; for it would show that the purely medical issue of insanity was only one factor involved in the legal determination . |
| 2 | The roads , notwithstanding King Charles was pleased to say the county of Norfolk was only fit to be cut into roads for the rest of his kingdom are unpardonably bad ; narrow shaded and never mended ; they are numerous however especially the bridle-roads ; so that a traveller on horseback has generally the choice of two or three ways of nearly equal length to the same place … |
| 3 | The group plans to publish its annual report and accounts for the year ended 30 September 1992 on 19 January 1993 using the FRS 3 basis , which of course was only published at the end of October last year . |
| 4 | After surgery patients were not routinely endoscoped and injection of varices was only carried out if and when bleeding occurred . |
| 5 | The Buckinghamshire ratios were £71 per thousand in 1515 , £68 in 1524 and £79 in 1522 when the average for just about half of Berkshire was only marginally higher than the £88 for the complete county in 1515 . |
| 6 | The pile of messages that greeted Loretta when she arrived at her college just after twelve next day was a sure sign that the beginning of term was only two days away . |
| 7 | Although this was the grandest , Bering 's voyage of discovery was only one of many scientific expeditions in the eighteenth century , and through the efforts of government-sponsored explorers and private entrepreneurs — the latter seeking not so much scientific information as further killing grounds in the pursuit of the lucrative sea otter — Russia 's political and commercial power began to reach out beyond the Siberian landmass across the northern Pacific , taking in the Aleutian and Kuril Islands , Russian America ( the present Alaska ) , as well as establishing trading settlements down the western coast of America , and even making a short-lived foray into the Hawaiian archipelago . |
| 8 | Cattle theft flourished in circumstances where it was profitable , and the risk of punishment was only one factor which thieves took into account when assessing this profitability . |
| 9 | He knew then that the mystery of Titron was only partly explained by the secret biological warfare establishment . |
| 10 | The number of applications was only 65,623 , far lower than the 300,000 expected [ see also p. 38098 , whhich includes provisional figures ] . |
| 11 | If the gaiety of Paris was only skin-deep , so the various scandals of inefficiency and corruption were infections that had as yet penetrated but little further . |
| 12 | Over 1971 the rate of inflation was only 22 per cent , over 1972 it was 163 per cent and throughout 1973 , 508 per cent . |
| 13 | The Department of Education was only informed of his decision last night . |
| 14 | The nearest useful census is for 1923 , when the total population of Smolensk was only 63,669 of which a mere 15.1 per cent were workers . |
| 15 | The Queen of Pleasures was only a cruel misnomer for the Whore of Babylon . |
| 16 | Lord Greene M.R. 's substantive sense of unreasonableness was only ever one aspect of review . |
| 17 | With a deep , reassuring certainty Gina knew that for both of them the rhapsody of love was only just beginning . |
| 18 | Comparing like with like , Concept says that consolidated 1992 revenues were down to $62.5m from $71.5m ; its net loss of $11.9m was only a fraction of 1991 's whopping $107.3m deficit . |
| 19 | In 1786 , when the true age of man was only just beginning to be appreciated , Anglo-Saxon remains were first identified as such . |
| 20 | Müller 's expression of concern was only too genuine . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The results of these calculations indicated that the mean level of performance was only 38 per cent — i.e. actual performance divided by potential performance was only 0.38 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had got into an argument in the wash room with Clive Fairbrother , an Australian exchange student a year older than him whose sense of humour was only a few degrees away from sheer malice . |
| 25 | Although the predictive value of a negative result ( clarity ) was 96% and the false negative rate 3.7% , the sensitivity of using transparency as an index of the absence of infection was only 32.4% in this population . |
| 26 | They were not that concerned about the health of the merchandise ; a certain amount of wastage was only to be expected . |
| 27 | Despite the high profile launch , just a few months later the audience of Eldorado was only 2.4 million people , ‘ fewer than Gardeners World , ’ as the Daily Express pointed out . |
| 28 | At first , registration of births was only about 95 per cent complete . |
| 29 | However , where a right of way was only shown as a footpath on a definitive map , the court can still hold that it was a ‘ road ’ . |
| 30 | Since the Congress Kingdom of Poland was only one of a number of outlying parts of the empire which required his attention , and since he could hardly afford a forward policy in western Europe or the Balkans until his own peripheries were fully integrated into the imperial structure , he spent more time in the 1830s and 1840s on his own non-Russian subjects than on dealings with foreigners . |