Example sentences of "were only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My room , like the front , was lit by a gas jet and had a small cast-iron fireplace , though fires were only lit when someone was seriously ill . |
| 2 | Anti-leukaemia and other drugs were only discovered when scientists talked to forest tribes . |
| 3 | Their bodies were only discovered after about a fortnight ; it was not clear whether Kelly 's death was part of a suicide pact . |
| 4 | In places , blocks were only pencilled in . |
| 5 | ‘ The stories were only generated because of the couple 's behaviour towards each other . |
| 6 | But in Britain , even in the days of the local poor law , questions were only asked about relatives of the claimant who were living with him . |
| 7 | We 've done very well cos there 's four we 've got five questions and we were only asked for four . |
| 8 | You were only saved by this new wonder drug , penicillin . ’ |
| 9 | What could have proved a disastrous appointment did , and Athletico were only saved from oblivion by the inspired choice of Reg Pybus as coach . |
| 10 | It took them five overs to score their first run and they were only saved from disaster by captain Allan Lamb . |
| 11 | They were only prevented from boarding the plane when the aircraft 's captain refused them permission . |
| 12 | The victim was so distressed that Police were only alerted when he was treated in Northampton General hospital four days later for his injuries . |
| 13 | The victim was so distressed that Police were only alerted when he was treated in Northampton General hospital four days later for his injuries . |
| 14 | At first they were only fitted with a route-letter box on the front while the side indicator box contained such interesting displays as : STOPPING CAR TO BISPHAM , ALL STATIONS TO BLACKPOOL and SPECIAL TO FLEETWOOD . |
| 15 | But such innovations were only applied to certain traffic flows , and the old order of vacuum-braked or unfitted wagons , sprawling marshalling yards and generally lavish siding provision was allowed to linger on . |
| 16 | Even in India , where railway-building developed rapidly between the 1860s and 1880s , the crucial feeder lines most important to the exploitation of India 's resources were only built in the twenty years before the First World War . |
| 17 | These noble sentiments , of course , were only expressed after the question of whether this was what people wanted had been asked . |
| 18 | Common cavity episodes were only scored when the rise in intra-oesophageal pressure was recorded in at least two oesophageal body manometric channels . |
| 19 | These were only replaced in August 1939 , one week before the arrival of the Second World War black-out . |
| 20 | Permission was soon granted , therefore , by the higher clergy , but their lesser brethren and subjects were only coerced by the visit of royal knights uttering threats of outlawry to their provincial assemblies . |
| 21 | People who continued to hope that their government would do nothing to help a black regime were only silenced by rumours that a Russian Ilyushin , laden with Libyan dead and wounded , had refuelled at Kufra airport . |
| 22 | It includes Conwy and Caernarfon , whose castles were only begun in 1283 and not finished until 1292 , and it has therefore been suggested that it was made over a period of years . |
| 23 | Compromises with his few but firmly held prejudices were only made when to hold out meant risking something irreplaceable . |
| 24 | Its activities were only kept going by fifty enthusiasts living in London and the obsessional fanaticism of Leese , its guiding spirit . |
| 25 | There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth . |
| 26 | It is clear from the general discussion above , that earlier positions were forged out of identifiable institutional and cultural campaigns and struggles , and indeed the fundamental orientations of pluralism were only rendered explicit in a comparable situation of crisis at the end of the 1970s , by which time the attractions of the new pluralism had long been established . |
| 27 | This is the ability to distinguish between memories of events that actually occurred and memories of events that were only imagined , planned or thought about . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course we were only invited for ten days or so . ’ |
| 29 | Other reasons given for not doing courses were varied and were only cited a small number of times . |
| 30 | Paired pectoral fins of gnathostome-type were only developed in cephalaspids ( and perhaps pituriaspids ) where there is evidence of an endoskeleton and associated muscles . |