Example sentences of "was [adv] only that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 4 | It was not only that animals were suffering to their detriment , but their abusers were themselves brutalised in the process . |
| 5 | ‘ It was not only that you looked so well in the clothes . |
| 6 | I think — I hope — that in a sense the relief of having a young assistant was not only that it helped his work , but that he also welcomed the presence of a younger doctor with more up-to-date medical knowledge . |
| 7 | It was not only that the players were away but that while they were away they were losing badly . |
| 8 | And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure . |
| 9 | It was not only that his daughter in this prepossessing dining room seemed an unfamiliar creature , that his son was slightly uncomfortable , and that Thomas with his mercurial wit and ironic eyes felt like a friend recovered from a distant past . |
| 10 | One of the features of Ben Jonson 's Workes 1616 was not only that Jonson was the first English dramatist to present his plays as worthy of serious literary attention but also that he did so in a folio format . |
| 11 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |
| 12 | It was n't only that I could n't lift myself off the ground but that I was stuck to it in some way . |
| 13 | It was n't only that he was n't interested in her any longer . |