Example sentences of "be only [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only just recently that we sort of starting our de we 've had bits of aggro . |
| 2 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
| 3 | Yes I 'm I 'm not quite sure the regulations are about subsids We , I mean we , it 's only quite recently that we have had a subsidiary , erm , last two or three years , we 've , for many years we did n't have one . |
| 4 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 5 | It is only relatively recently that the imbalance has been corrected and this has been mainly due to oil from the North Sea , resulting in import savings and export earning . |
| 6 | However , it is only comparatively recently that feminists have begun to raise the issue more generally within the women 's liberation movement . |
| 7 | It is only comparatively recently that they have all been brought together . ’ |
| 8 | A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them . |
| 9 | Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories . |
| 10 | Although there has been intermittent interest in this area since that time , it is only more recently that there have been suitable techniques for more effective study . |
| 11 | She did love Alexander , deeply and passionately , and suddenly it seemed quite natural to say so , in spite of the fact that it was only so recently that she had dared to look her love in the face . |
| 12 | In addition it was only very recently that the company had the expensive machinery necessary to translate some of the more sophisticated effects she wished to produce , and even this was being constantly updated . |
| 13 | It was only much later that I realised the reason for the request and also for the resulting laughter , namely the enjoyment of a broad Somerset accent which had come with me , and traces of which can still be recognised by West Country people nearly seventy years later . |
| 14 | It was only much later that it hit me and that was more shock than something could happen again . ’ |
| 15 | It arrived about two months after the news about my father , although it was only much later that I was told what was in it . |
| 16 | It was only much later that Alexei 's mystery sickness was connected with the Chernobyl explosion . |
| 17 | It was only much later that she came to understand that the place was in its infancy . |
| 18 | It was only much later that I remembered my speech had been more or less word for word something my dad had said to me once . |