Example sentences of "was only [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at the same time she was only dimly conscious that the rafts had arrived , and that the men were changing into dry , warm clothing . |
| 2 | It was only too appropriate that they were designing inert masses of rock with their noses in the air , and snow on them . |
| 3 | He was only too thankful that Sarah was to be removed from his home . |
| 4 | He was only too conscious that he had nothing really to do : his hands strayed from time to time above his freckled face to adjust his headgear . |
| 5 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 6 | It was only too likely that they would encounter dangers beyond the warren and that they would stand in need of some good fighters . |
| 7 | Thus I was only too aware that the realities of psychic phenomena were somewhat exaggerated by these treatments . |