Example sentences of "were only [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , Home Office guidelines were only exceptionally ignored since ‘ They were seen as having a legitimacy stemming from the fact of representing the authoritative interpretation of the law by the elected government of the day ’ ( ibid.:211 ) . |
| 2 | Compass arcs were only rarely seen , for example , and it appeared that many of the drawings had been obtained by trial and error . |
| 3 | ( In fact , sets right at the top of this range were only rarely included in the testing programme . ) |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Celts , who were only superficially touched by Hellenistic civilization and represented the greatest terror for both Greeks and Romans , have simply been left outside the horizon of the traditional civilized Western world . |
| 7 | Before exercise , cGMP concentrations of New York Heart Association ( NYHA ) class I patients were only slightly raised and did not differ significantly from concentrations of healthy controls or patients with non-cardiac diseases . |
| 8 | But they were only slightly injured . |
| 9 | But they were only slightly injured . |
| 10 | It was , in fact , natural country with semi-artificial fences which were only slightly altered from their original shape . |
| 11 | The superbly sited Hellenistic theatres at the citadel of Pergamon and Termessos were only slightly altered in Roman times . |
| 12 | This was the outcome of changes in population growth and its age distribution which were only partly compensated for by the marked increase in female participation ratios , especially of those in the 25–60 age groups [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 13 | If the shares were only partly paid , for example if S had only contributed £150 for his 200 shares , then his liability would be £50 . |
| 14 | The equilibrium of this system lived after it ; its remnants were only finally blown away in 19l4 although it had begun to disintegrate long before . |
| 15 | BOAC clearly had profit on its mind , and wanted its requirements incorporated into the new designs , but these were only partially met . |
| 16 | Their observations were only partially based on the fall in the number of cases brought before the courts . |
| 17 | Hence high contributions were only partially offset because receipts were comparatively low . |
| 18 | Both men lived through the Depression , but Fraser 's depressions were only indirectly linked with the hardships of people he knew . |
| 19 | Agate , in which the markings were only vaguely defined , was chosen for beads from an early date in Egypt , Sumer and Iran , but it was onyx , in which the bands were more sharply defined and might be strikingly regular , that offered greater scope to the ambitious craftsman . |
| 20 | But these foreign debts were only intermittently repaid and , as a result , in the 1830s and 1840s Thornton headed the committee of Spanish bond-holders urging British governments to intervene on their behalf . |
| 21 | Browne 's prosperity and monopolies were only once endangered , in 1645 , when an intercepted letter named him as a Royalist sympathizer . |
| 22 | As built by Franklin the outer stumps were so slanted away from the middle that the balls were only precariously balanced . |
| 23 | The approach to Jesus in much of the theology and teaching with which Kierkegaard was familiar tended very much to see him too in that kind of light — as the founder of a religion , as the discoverer and imparter of divine truths , as the exemplar of particular values , which were only accidentally bound up with him , but in principle could be detached from him . |
| 24 | In a desperately competitive climate , where anyone bright and competent could go down the road and pick up a better paid job with kinder hours and more congenial working conditions from someone like British Telecom , the railways ran a service dependent on people who belonged to a narrow and inbred working culture , with outdated procedures of training and promotion , and an institutional reliance on overtime working , whose wholly disgraceful dimensions are symbolised by the fact that maximum weekly hours were only recently cut to 72 hours a week . |
| 25 | by no means all of the large reptiles that are found in the Mesozoic rocks are dinosaurs — the reptile groups that took up life in the sea or the air were only distantly related . |
| 26 | The fragmentation of the trade — the implications of which were only dimly perceived at the time — was to become of crucial importance later and will be looked at in more detail below . |
| 27 | But yesterday , Susan Fey , of the CTC Trust , said , ‘ We were only ever given a target of 20 . |
| 28 | This is particularly the case when critical attention is being focused on details of spoken language which were only ever intended by the speaker as ephemeral parts , relatively unimportant , of the working-out of what he wanted to say . |
| 29 | Similarly , few word processing packages can accurately hyphenate and justify text that is proportionally spaced as they were only ever designed to handle monospaced characters . |
| 30 | Travel has undoubtedly broadened our culinary horizons and ingredients that were only ever found in markets on holidays abroad are now readily available in specialist shops and large supermarkets . |