Example sentences of "were only [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | the crews of the cutters did not always see the completed puzzle , and for obvious reasons were only given sufficient information on a need-to-know basis . |
| 3 | The only inconvenience of the original interior was that the bedrooms all led into one another ( just as they had always done in houses past : passages were only deemed essential when the segregation of servants became the norm in the eighteenth century ) ; but this was overcome by making a gallery and rearranging the staircase . |
| 4 | If the two girls compare notes one day , the New Yorker will complain about the useless articles she read ; the newspaper articles were almost always short , written maybe by hard-pressed critics who were only allowed short articles , further cut down by sub-editors . |
| 5 | Mission work to civilise the slaves and the extension of responsibilities to the labourers for their own work were only thought likely to be successful if they were cumulative experiences for the slaves . |