Example sentences of "it [is] only [adv] that " 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 rarely that a fellow will change his corner . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | It 's only recently that a reasonable range of database offerings have appeared specifically for Windows . |
| 5 | Well it 's only recently that she 's started drinking orange juice I know But she has n't liked it at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 've always got on well with adults , but it 's only now that I 'm starting to get on with my own generation , and I realise that I have to do that if I 'm to become a whole person . |
| 9 | It might save money , but in terms of the environmental impact it is quite disastrous , and I think that it 's only now that the real problems in London for example are coming home to roost , er and I would ask that point to be borne in mind by whoever we decide should make representations to the commissioners . |
| 10 | Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes . |
| 11 | It 's only now that we are in the position where we can actually start to make the links , ’ said Mr Lee . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's only now that I 'm getting to know what my best 15 or 16 players are , ’ admitted the ever-courteous Englishman . |
| 13 | It 's only then that you realise just what a dictatorship can be like . ’ |
| 14 | Second , he feels guilty about how he treated you and wants to make amends — something people often do when they find happiness because it 's only then that they can afford to consider how much they have hurt others . |
| 15 | Most of science is built up on good solid craftsmanship and it is only rarely that the occasional blinding flash of world-shattering importance ever really occurs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | However , it is only rarely that the more esoteric operations are ever used , particularly in programs compiled from high-level languages . |
| 19 | It is only rarely that places become the heroes of operas , yet such is the case of Peter Grimes . |
| 20 | It is only later that the effect of this spending becomes apparent and more money may have to be spent to reach an effect that is desired . |
| 21 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 22 | The Created God can have existence only in the minds of men , for it is only there that things without material substance can exist , and are therefore spiritual . |
| 23 | Most are working in central London , some also in one or two other major cities , since it is only there that the sort of prestigious hotels and banqueting suites which can mount an almost unbroken series of events are to be found . |
| 24 | We need to be in the Labour Party it is only there that we the unions can take part in making policy about the future of our industries and services , and taking care of our members . |
| 25 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 26 | Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation . |
| 27 | It is only then that the third stage comes into operation , that of the actual data collection . |
| 28 | It is only then that they will be deemed ready to report to the flying squadron . |
| 29 | It is only then that I can get up and interpose myself between his wet shirtfront and the sink , where the suds soak into my lower back . |
| 30 | 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 . |