Example sentences of "only [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that did not mean that the ethos of a Roman catholic state would be in any way diminished , only that the form of political religious power would be different . |
| 2 | Signs to be read only after I am gone : Know only that a message was sent . |
| 3 | Instead of elation felt only that it was not addressed to me . |
| 4 | ‘ Or is it only that I do n't understand why as a consequence of being a mere male ? ’ |
| 5 | Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity . |
| 6 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 7 | the dissolution of truth does not mean that no statements are true but only that there is no stable , unchanging absolute truth , and that certainty is persistently elusive . |
| 8 | The UK by contrast requires only that figures are prepared and audited to internationally acceptable standards but not necessarily UK Gaap . |
| 9 | Mr Gorbachev 's role is unclear : Hans Klein , the West German government spokesman , would say only that Mr Kohl 's last telephone message to the Soviet leader was on Friday , with a reply on Sunday . |
| 10 | The latest argument deployed in Whitehall yesterday was not only that sanctions hurt the worst-off sections of the South African community — the ones they are designed to help — but that financial measures against South Africa might induce the country to default on its international commitments . |
| 11 | Of the greatest player of her day , Jane Austen wrote only that ‘ We were quite satisfied with Mr. Kean , ’ — which may not look so good splashed across the marquee but which is all many of the experts demand : as far as Miss Austen is concerned , he did n't get in the way of the drama . |
| 12 | Faith and Reason : We know only that God is a mystery : In the fourth article in our series on the mutability of God , Herbert McCabe OP argues that neither change nor stasis are applicable to God 's ‘ human ’ suffering |
| 13 | He declines to comment on the chances of the rest of the team , saying only that all have lacked the intensive training , with a sojourn in Japan , which they really needed . |
| 14 | He twice turned down the chance to become Secretary General of Nato , and the ideas on defence and deterrence outlined here compare favourably with much of the output of the Beltway Bandits and their fellow theorists in Paris or Moscow , save only that they are more readably expressed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 17 | Ramsey was asked later , were you getting unintelligible , or was it only that the bishop was a bad listener to Holy Week addresses ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is not only that Charlie 's lives , like those of Tiresias , grow confused ; his expression , speaking out of modern London about remote and contemporary affairs , all in ‘ a confused tangle of other voices ’ , like a poetic ventriloquist , points in the direction of |
| 20 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 21 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |
| 22 | The meeting agreed only that no decisions would be taken until Dominion government opinion had been consulted . |
| 23 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 24 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 25 | ‘ Only that the place was never kept decently as far as I could see , not the way a gentleman 's house should be . |
| 26 | At the present time , as we have described , the problem with daytime sleep is believed to be only that it is too short . |
| 27 | It was not only that the industry needed propping up , but the whole film culture had to be rebuilt , and Forbes had clearly not grasped the scale of what needed to be done . |
| 28 | Murray confirmed only that the deal had been agreed and that it would go a long way towards cutting Rangers ' overdraft of £9.5 million . |
| 29 | When Norwich and Arsenal appeared at Lancaster Gate the FA was concerned not only that neither club had condemned the incident immediately but that Norwich had not given any indication that they were going to punish some of their players , apart from fining them for making comments to newspapers . |
| 30 | The fact is that Mr Kinnock and his friends understand well enough not only that they could not be elected but that Britain could not be governed without some serious accommodations of the kind they now stand for . |