Example sentences of "[was/were] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAVE been engaged twice before , but they were only kid 's stuff as I was 17 and 19 at the time . |
| 2 | Yet the Steward and Moray were only youths and the Constable not much more , and inexperienced , with Sir Archibald scarcely a renowned warrior . |
| 3 | You said there were only ruins there now . ’ |
| 4 | Since she and Liz were only cousins , her relationship to this dark stranger was n't all that close , surely ? ’ |
| 5 | It would certainly damage the apostle 's prophecy of future judgment of the world by God if he were found to be making reference to events which were only myth and legend . |
| 6 | Looked at from this new angle , the smears were only smears . |
| 7 | In the rings , there were only hermits to worry about . |
| 8 | What if he came in this evening through a door that was n't there and sat in a chair-shape , reading a paper that had never been printed , saying aloud bits that were only hum and haw again to me ? |
| 9 | Instead , for Bentham , there were only interests and , because the interests of the majority had to prevail , Himmelfarb noted : " The principle of the greatest happiness was as inimical to the idea of liberty as it was to the idea of rights . " |
| 10 | Many of the people in our picture were only window shopping and kept a tight hold on their cash , according to disappointed traders . |
| 11 | Once … there were only prawns , expensive , wasteful and sometimes of doubtful quality and flavour . |
| 12 | Provisions in 1990 were only £8m . |
| 13 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 14 | Physical disruption , fear , the adrenalin events — they were only part of it . |
| 15 | The steely granite-grey eyes beneath their deeply hooded lids were only part of his dark attraction . |
| 16 | Mr Lang said that the allocations were only part of the story since authorities could also spend their capital receipts and use revenue to fund capital expenditure . |
| 17 | How could she compare the task of dusting and polishing the magnificent English furniture to the drudgery of cleaning our house , where there were only tom rags , a broom and a pail of water , and you had to go down on your knees to scrub the floor and do the endless piles of washing by hand ? |
| 18 | They suggested that the big bang might be a peculiarity of Friedmann 's models alone , which after all were only approximations to the real universe . |
| 19 | It were only quarter past one and I finished at and I felt really |
| 20 | In this case , I am going to assume that there were only girls on the island , and also that they were the same ages and from the same middle-class English background as the boys . |
| 21 | It was as if she 'd let the qualities of courage and daring , which were only masks she wore to protect herself , slip from her face . |
| 22 | There were only 30m plastic cards in circulation in 1979 — including cheque , credit and cash withdrawal cards — whereas now there are 100m cards in use . |
| 23 | Reid insisted that his team had done themselves a favour in their quest to make a late run for Europe and that any favours done for neighbouring causes were only coincidence . |
| 24 | But they were only hammers in a sense . |
| 25 | Yes the others were only hobblers they called them . |
| 26 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 27 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 28 | Er I 'd want to be seen if it were only back of , back of |
| 29 | Their heads were only inches apart . |
| 30 | His lips were only inches from hers when Rosa 's tap at the door made him lift his dark head . |