Example sentences of "it is only [adv] that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |
| 2 | It is only then that they will be deemed ready to report to the flying squadron . |
| 3 | The problem for beginning readers is to decode the visual symbols into a form which can be recognised , for it is only then that they will be able to bring previously gained knowledge to bear upon the meaning of the text . |
| 4 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |
| 5 | 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 . |