Example sentences of "[was/were] only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of our knowledge of Beaker burials derives from excavations conducted in the last century , when the principles of good archaeological practice were only just beginning to be formulated . |
| 2 | But the health effects were only just beginning . |
| 3 | Irritable but excited , as though he were only just able to hold something important under control . |
| 4 | More incredible was that all of this violence , all of this blood and gore , all of this inhumanity and human sacrifice was being conducted in the corner of our living rooms , because suddenly it was also the nightly fodder of the television stations , who were only just realizing the potential of on-the-spot coverage of such despicable yet compelling viewing matter . |
| 5 | In the dusk of the evening and the darkness of the house , the things were only just visible … innumerable obstacles that intervened between us and the cosy hearth . |
| 6 | They were only just in time . |
| 7 | Vincent waded into his father with such anger that his expulsion from the house inevitably followed : such grossness was an offence to the fragile truce they were only just sustaining . |
| 8 | In fact , the amounts were only just measurable . |
| 9 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |
| 10 | And his problems were only just beginning . |
| 11 | It caused probably the first mythical switchboard ( since phones were only just installed ) , the cancelling of the Thursday night repeat was discussed in Parliament , Prince Philip loved it , Peter Cushing ( as Winston ) became a star , and the genuine sewer rats used for ‘ that ’ sequence all passed out under the studio lights . |
| 12 | The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force . |
| 13 | The population was distributed in a very uneven pattern with the concentration in four county boroughs of the south providing a contrast to the scattered and declining population of north and mid-Wales : ‘ six of the thirteen counties were experiencing falling populations and most of the others were only just holding their own ’ ( Wood 1976 : 117 ) . |
| 14 | The standpoint of Coburn 's story was an extrapolation of machine intelligence , written at a time when computers were only just beginning to encroach into the commercial environment of Britain . |
| 15 | Even the Beatles were only just a national phenomenon , although interest had widened outward from their music to include their somewhat innovative hair styles . |
| 16 | The sides were only just above the water , and often the water came in . |
| 17 | th they were only just breaking even . |
| 18 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |
| 19 | " We were only just beginning to listen to Bach " , said one Iranian businessman . |
| 20 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 21 | But they were only just beginning . |
| 22 | Some sort of dress rehearsal was clearly required for the Cypriot police officers who were only just coming to grips with wiretap technology , and , right on cue , one of Hurley 's informants passed the word that Abou Daod , a Lebanese drugs trafficker , was coming to Cyprus to set up a deal . |
| 23 | The wounds Giles had inflicted were only just beginning to heal . |
| 24 | The wounds of the past were only just healing . |
| 25 | She would ring Julius at home , with messages that were only just important enough for her to justify ringing his private number . |
| 26 | All remembered and periodically still experienced the vicious attacks on them which the Communists were only just beginning to abandon . |
| 27 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 28 | He says that they were only just recovering from making cuts last year , now they 're having to do the same again ; only this time there will be redundancies . |
| 29 | ‘ Still , we were only just beaten here , ’ said Hastings , bitterly upset that his team had the match stolen from them when Fox landed his 47-yard penalty with only 35 seconds of normal time left . |
| 30 | knew , knew the minute walking , walking in , that they were only just coming in just to see |