Example sentences of "that it [was/were] only [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 2 | ‘ I imagine , ’ Mr Renfrew said unexpectedly , ‘ that it was only at the end she felt the need . ’ |
| 3 | The fact that it is only at puberty that initiation occurs today and that it was only at this age that young males came to pose a threat to the peace and stability of early human societies seems to have had , quite apart from its evident social and psychological consequences , important physiological ones as well . |
| 4 | Catching sight of his reflection in the window he felt a surge of self-pity and suddenly realized that he missed Ellen very badly , and that it was only at moments like this , when he surprised himself , that he could admit how much he needed her . |
| 5 | While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes , Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared . |
| 6 | When he rang Eleanor he would explain that it was only to be a simple snack . |
| 7 | He was convinced that it was only to the true Catholic that God gave the power to write ‘ authentic and inspiring music ’ . |
| 8 | Mrs. O'Brien said that she believed what her husband told her about the company doing well and having good potential , but she was concerned for her son and felt that it was only for three weeks , and if it would do the trick , she would sign . |
| 9 | 14–16 ) was right to say that it was only with the Peloponnesian War that the real migration from country to city took place . |
| 10 | Since there is also other well known evidence collected by Sachs , Kirkpatrick , Zaslaw and others from L'Affilard , Pajot , la Chapelle , Marguet , Quantz , Pasquali , Choquel , Engramelle et al. , indicating that from 1717 to 1775 minuets were danced both fast and slow , anywhere between MM 53 and 80 per bar , is it really likely that it was only during the 1780s that musicians of the time just happened to slow down the minuet , playing only the bottom side of minuet tempos and not the top side then to speed up again afterwards by the 1790s and 1800s ? |
| 11 | They told chairman Michael Croucher that it was only by accident they had heard of the proposals and they were concerned that no-one had told them . |
| 12 | He was firmly convinced that it was only by consolidating working class effort to meet capitalist effort that they would win through to salvation … |
| 13 | Donny O'Brien , the ancient typesetter inherited from the original Advent , swore each day that it was only by the grace of God that the paper ever got launched in the taxi which delivered it to the newspaper boys . |
| 14 | Along the path leading to the ark lay the altar of burnt-offering ( 17:1–8 ) , the altar of incense ( 30:1–6 ) , and the mercy-seat where the blood of sacrifice was finally sprinkled ( 25:17ff. ; Leviticus 16:14 ) — showing that it was only by sacrifice , prayer and the effectiveness of the shed blood that man could come to God . |
| 15 | It would seem , however , that it was only by the intercession of the two kazaskers , and indeed by virtue of an imperial decree , that he was able to do so . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it was only by a consistent and credible policy of multilateral disarmament that the collapse of communism was eventually assured ? |
| 17 | Heaving over to one elbow just in time not to drown in her own effluent , Jezrael was so involved with her physical self that it was only after a moment that she noticed the base of one wall oozing forward to cover her vomit . |
| 18 | The reference to ‘ Eventually ’ in the last sentence implies that it was only after a commendable period of restraint that horses were ordered in . |
| 19 | Stevenson himself thought that it was only in virtue of a descriptive meaning , which ethical sentences typically had as well as their emotive meaning , that they could function in this sort of context . |
| 20 | The implication of the evidence as a whole could be that it was only in the reign of Ecgfrith that Northumbrian overlordship embraced the Strathclyde Britons and the Scots . |
| 21 | On the assumption that neither Hezarfen on the one hand nor Ali and Kocu Bey on the other is simply in error , one can perhaps reconcile these two apparently contradictory statements on the grounds either that it was only in the technical matter of the that Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to be regarded as 300-akce kadiliks , their holders actually being given 500 akce a day ; or that , while still being paid only 300 akce a day , they had come to be regarded as 500-akce mevleviyets from the hierarchical point of view , for the obvious reason that they were in fact higher in rank than any of the other kadiliks . |
| 22 | The whole essence of Conservative Party that 's put before the Environment Committee today and I remind us that it was only in a very short few months ago that this Council might be at cuts of up to twenty million pounds in order that low in the very country . |