Example sentences of "only [adv] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 3 | They differ from the theories described in Chapter 3 , therefore , only in that they do not ascribe the poor acquisition to a change in the value of some attention-like process . |
| 4 | The former is of interest only in that she happens to be married to the gorgeous Richard Gere , who not only has ten times her talent but ten times her looks ( do people really find that hideous mole of hers attractive ? ) . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | Though the basic broad principles of the hierarchy are observable from its inception , probably toward the end of the fifteenth century , it was only gradually that it became elaborated ; and it was only with elaboration that the hierarchy tended gradually to become more rigid and to exert an increasing influence on the attitudes both of the ulema toward their own aspirations and of the people toward the ulema . |
| 7 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh Lydia , ’ she said , ‘ you told me only yesterday that you did n't want any children . |
| 9 | It seemed like only yesterday that he had presented himself at Manchester 's Ringway Airport for training with the newly formed Parachute Regiment . |
| 10 | It was only later that they discovered that the mysterious column , which in the heat haze had looked like twenty-five Lancia trucks , had in fact been Timpson 's patrol . |
| 11 | It was only later that he realized he had destroyed a Max Ernst . |
| 12 | It was only later that he found out that nearly everyone suffers from the same delusion in one form or another ; at the time he was convinced that it was his own personal idiosyncrasy . |
| 13 | It was only later that he described the mistake as ‘ terminal ’ , but he knew originally that it was serious . |
| 14 | It was only later that I discovered Ghatak was not only a director , but also , in his own , idiosyncratic way , a teacher and theorist of cinema . |
| 15 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 16 | It was only later that I realized that the tears were caused by rage and not by sadness . |
| 17 | It was only later that I learned , quite by chance , that she was Janet Bloomfield , author of The Fallen Land , the recent prize-winning novel based on the tragedy of the collapse of the Paisley Close ( ‘ Heave awa ’ , lads ’ ) tenement in Edinburgh in 1862 . |
| 18 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 19 | It was only later that she switched to the Laban Centre and started dance training . |
| 20 | It was only partly that she disliked breaking arrangements , more that she wanted to let Cobalt see she was alive and well . |
| 21 | Only now that it had happened it was n't in the least funny . |
| 22 | It was only now that I realized that Lineker was n't Arabic for goal ! |
| 23 | I was against this sport all along , but it is only now that I have read the page in the Leicester Mercury that I feel bold enough to speak out to you . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 26 | It was only now that she began to realise that her feelings bore no relation to what she was experiencing now , with this man . |
| 27 | He became real and close only now that he had vanished . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was only then that we realised it was a woman . ’ |
| 30 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |