Example sentences of "be only [adv] that [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the final Munro has been with you all the way along , it 's only here that you feel you are now finally making your way towards it and the conclusion of the walk . |
| 2 | It 's only now that I feel that I could actually decide to have a relationship which is specifically going to be monogamous , which is a really big change for me … that makes me think immediately of AIDS but I 'm not sure . |
| 3 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's only recently that I 've felt able to write about him , but the controversy about Down 's Syndrome babies has brought it all to the surface . |
| 5 | It 's only then that you realise just what a dictatorship can be like . ’ |
| 6 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 7 | Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ . |
| 8 | Notoriously young children learn very quickly how to recite numbers in the right order without having any clear notion of their " cardinal " properties , and it is only gradually that they begin to associate their respective positions in the number series with a relation of magnitude . |
| 9 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 10 | I was against this sport all along , but it is only now that I have read the page in the Leicester Mercury that I feel bold enough to speak out to you . |
| 11 | My object at this stage is simply to depose the concept of society as an organism in which , far more subtly than we can measure or identify ( it is only recently that we have begun to identify the chemical balance of the human organism of society ) , a certain balance between tendencies and elements , many in themselves dangerous , destructive and evil , has to be maintained as a condition of survival , but a balance which can be endangered , or lost , reversibly or irrevocably . |