Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] only [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , most products developed were based on large , textual databases and it was only slowly that developers began stretching the medium to deliver images and sound in addition to text . |
| 2 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 3 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |
| 4 | Scales arrived back and it was only then that Wycliffe want into the office . |
| 5 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 6 | It states that the Croats were marched back into Yugoslavia , and it was only there that the mass-killings by Tito 's supporters began . |
| 7 | I 'd read it when I was doing my A levels at the crammer , but it was only now that I really appreciated it . |