Example sentences of "but only [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vadim 's Et Dieu Créa La Femme ( 1956 ) was the watershed film which liberalized the cinema , but only after it had run into censorship trouble everywhere , especially in the United States where the Hollywood decency code still insisted on separate beds for married couples . |
| 2 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 3 | Leskov was prepared to accept the utility of the term " liberal " , but only if it referred to advocates of moderation . |
| 4 | They were contained in the liquid membrane ready to attach themselves to a copper ion but only when it had been reduced to Cu + . |
| 5 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |