Example sentences of "was only [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was only later that the aesthetic dimension of literary study became emphasized , with an accompanying concentration on the fictional genres . |
| 3 | It was only later that the significance of the surrendering of providing powers in 1930 became fully apparent to the District . |
| 4 | It was only later that the fate of the missing aircraft became known . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 7 | It was only later that he realized he had destroyed a Max Ernst . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was only later that the theory was refined to include anti neutrinos , when , for consistency with the conservation laws , the name ‘ antineutrino ’ was given to the variety produced by neutron decay . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was only later that he described the mistake as ‘ terminal ’ , but he knew originally that it was serious . |
| 12 | It was only later that the company came to acquire a social and political direction ; in its inception it was an ‘ expedient solution to a technical problem ’ . |
| 13 | It was only later that I realized that the tears were caused by rage and not by sadness . |
| 14 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 15 | After all , it was only later that Rob had become serious about Heather . |
| 16 | Tracey had at first pretended not to mind her joining the group ; it was only later that his real bitterness about it emerged . |
| 17 | It was only later that Trivers began to link it up with Darwin . |
| 18 | Added Det Con Roberts : ‘ It was only later that the lady realised that her purse , containing around £220 in cash , had been taken . ’ |
| 19 | It was only later that she switched to the Laban Centre and started dance training . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was only rarely that women were able to occupy ( outside the home ) any position of authority . |
| 22 | Clearly they were not the sort of married couple that was used to communicating by letter , and when they did it was only rarely that anything illuminating was said . |
| 23 | It was only partly that she disliked breaking arrangements , more that she wanted to let Cobalt see she was alive and well . |
| 24 | It was only here that my past would merge into my future . |
| 25 | Accordingly , most products developed were based on large , textual databases and it was only slowly that developers began stretching the medium to deliver images and sound in addition to text . |
| 26 | It was only sometimes that I 'd wake and find Bernard snoring on one side of me and Uncle Bill giving an occasional snort on the other . |
| 27 | It was only yesterday that Stoute finally decided to send Opera House to Leopardstown instead of Goodwood in the hope that the opposition would break up enough for Opera House not to have a hard race before Paris . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And it was 1952 before that road was taken — by Hugh Kenner ; it was only then that responsible criticism of Pound became possible — everything before that belongs , as it were , in pre-history . |
| 30 | It was only then that Gazzer remembered what Simon had done : the intense activity of the last half hour had driven it out of his mind . |