Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it was only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catt accepts that it was only a minor detail in her boyfriend 's sacking but feels it has a relevance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The couple have now left Ross on wye , Jonathans girfriend says that it was only a small minority who were involved in racial abuse but it was so unpleasant they now feel they ca n't live there any longer . |
| 4 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 5 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 6 | Via her bluelight , though , Jezrael could see that it was only a minor game of tit-for-tat . |
| 7 | Baxter 's career at Raith Rovers flourished and it was only a matter of time before he became won of Scotland 's most sought after young stars . |
| 8 | However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field . |
| 9 | The newly established conservative majority on the Supreme Court also led many people to predict that it was only a matter of time before Roe v. Wade was struck down in its entirety , thereby leaving individual state laws as the sole arbiters governing access to abortion . |
| 10 | He knew and was on good terms with Keith , and that man emphasised that it was only a temporary arrangement . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr. Levy , for J. 's parents , sought to persuade us that the particular order here could be justified because it was only an interim order , designed to ‘ hold ’ the situation for a short period until a full hearing . |
| 13 | Other girls had seen him leaving too and Annie felt that it was only a matter of time before her friend was found out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Already Washington knew that it was only a matter of time before the USSR was in a position to present a serious nuclear threat to the United States itself . |
| 16 | Jotan 's expression suggested that he thought that it was only a matter of time . |
| 17 | Then she remembered that it was only a selection of the poems he had been reading and she did not need to speculate further , for — much to her surprise — he began to read |
| 18 | No cos they bent round and we had a tie , we did but it was only a little bannister you know , we tried it |
| 19 | I am in everyone 's bad books because I said that it was only a shop . |
| 20 | And , seeing as it was only a cheap literary device anyway , and that not even the legendary Graham Gardner owns a copy of ‘ Pewter Suitor ’ , who 's ever going to know ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As well as the acceptance by Child of a valid philosophical position for the sociology of knowledge , Jacques Maquet suggested that it was only a threat to those philosophers who saw humans as provided with a spiritual nature that entailed the possibility of transcending economic and social determination through a theoretical ‘ faculty of the true ’ ( Maquet 1973 : 100 ) . |
| 23 | Some we chased but it was only a matter of chasing them out of the way . |