Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] only [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His measurement has underwritten an orthodoxy that the capital 's wage-earners suffered declining fortunes which were reversed only by the post-war deflation . |
| 2 | Of the seventy cases which were reported only in the local newspapers in the sample , there were six cases ( 9 per cent ) where the coverage lasted more than one day . |
| 3 | The News of the World had developed a distinctively titillating style of reporting rape which was matched only by the arrival of the restructured Sun which began to develop its present style in the early 1970s . |
| 4 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |
| 5 | He passed through an opening in a wooden fence into the yard , which was lit only by the light from within the house . |
| 6 | Weir had been piling one office upon another , and had recently added to his collection that of sheriff-substitute in the Nether-ward of Lanarkshire , although , as his friend Andrew Gardner urgently pointed out to the duke , this was a precarious place which was held only during the pleasure of the sheriff-depute of Lanarkshire . |
| 7 | In sharp contrast , the WEA financed its tutors through student fee income , grant-aid from the Board of Education which was derived only from the number of qualifying classes provided , and from fluctuating , unsecured donations and subscriptions . |