Example sentences of "only that [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only that we try and spend some time together again . |
| 2 | It seems to me clear that the answer has to be yes , provided only that we allow ourselves a sufficiently large series of Ks . |
| 3 | The point is not only that we do as a matter of fact accept " the same meaning " and " a different meaning " as intelligible concepts , but that any attempt to define the criteria of interchangeability of expressions with regard to their meaning presupposes their intelligibility . |
| 4 | I do not mean that they do not differentiate between dog and man , only that we have become integrated into their already existing , instinctive mental-behavioural patterns . |
| 5 | ‘ The sobering thought , as decades turn , ’ says social psychologist Duncan Cramer , ‘ is not only that we have less time to live , but that options also narrow . ’ |
| 6 | I feel only that we have taken a wrong direction somewhere , and are blindly stumbling on because our leaders blindfold us . |
| 7 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 8 | It shows that we must step up our efforts to ensure that everyone is fully educated , but not only that they know the facts , but that they start to act upon them . |
| 9 | He even posed for the newspaper photographers , insisting only that they refrain from taking behind-the-bars type pictures . |
| 10 | But , as prisoners see it , the new system means only that they receive negative replies to their complaints more quickly . |
| 11 | Well not only that they find that flat shoes or shoes with very little heel is a lot more comfortable to wear what happens eventually you take . |
| 12 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 13 | It is not therefore assumed that people have a' consciousness ' ( false or otherwise ) or a system or knowledge about the outside world , but only that they have a more or less adequate collection of competences in dealing with particular instances of it . |
| 14 | A comparison of the three Gospels shows not only that they have a great deal in common but also that , in many cases , the wording of individual stories is either identical or very similar ( for example , compare Mark 2:3–12 ; Matt. |
| 15 | They have forgotten who they are , knowing only that they have been trapped by an evil enchanter . |
| 16 | This is not to say that the contributions which social scientists may make to solving particular technical problems , or enlarging the sphere of rational decision making , should be dismissed altogether ; only that they have to be seen in the wider context of political contestation and choice . |
| 17 | To say that these factors of context , conjuncture and wider conditionality are ‘ extra-discursive ’ does not mean that discourses do not enter into their determination , only that they involve processes which can not be reduced to this effect . |
| 18 | He allows that they are individually necessary , and argues only that they need supplementing . |
| 19 | It is n't only that they enjoy commercial success and critical acclaim , but because they are , in the jargon of the trade , ‘ good copy ’ — talkative , controversial , witty and opinionated on a whole range of topics . |
| 20 | In what follows I shall claim that postmodern cultural forms do indeed signify , only that they signify differently . |
| 21 | Tradition required not only that she rot in constricted shade with the disintegrating corpse of her husband , but that she also eat a special diet for the entire period , which excluded any rice at all . |
| 22 | Well it is n't only that I mean er we do n't provide the food when they 're at home , do we ? |
| 23 | Yeah but not only that I mean , if they get paid double time everywhere else why should we be any bloody different ? |
| 24 | But not only that I mean it 's New Year 's Eve , everybody else is bloody getting drunk and enjoying themselves and you 're stuck doing the bloody bar . |
| 25 | it 's not that , it 's , it 's next door but not only that I mean friends , my friends I mean |
| 26 | as I say she 'd have everything down , I think I , she definitely needs a big house , but not only that I mean she has to put everything up like |
| 27 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 28 | Only that I 've heard it before . |
| 29 | Not only that I 've got ta fit in like the children as well . |
| 30 | This does n't mean that I have slopped believing , but only that I believe in my own way . |