Example sentences of "only [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only rarely that women were able to occupy ( outside the home ) any position of authority . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | However , it is only rarely that the more esoteric operations are ever used , particularly in programs compiled from high-level languages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's only rarely that a fellow will change his corner . |
| 8 | It is only rarely that places become the heroes of operas , yet such is the case of Peter Grimes . |
| 9 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At times this anti-realism took the form of an extreme nominalism , according to which the words ‘ man ’ and ‘ triangle ’ are general only in that they are used of a number of different things . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was different from Adrar only in that a main street , with post office and government buildings , replaced the square , but otherwise the sepia buildings were less than my expectations . |
| 14 | 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 ? ) . |
| 15 | The latter is of interest only in that he still manages to stay alive given the muck he is reported to pour daily into his ailing system . |
| 16 | The two lieutenants seem to differ only in that the officer whose men are field-equipped wears brown canvas leggings . |
| 17 | Indeed , they differ from substantive rules only in that the latter have no dictionary function . |
| 18 | These two examples of successful problem-solving when dozing or dreaming are typical only in that a feeling of certainty accompanied them — what is unusual is that these were realistic solutions . |
| 19 | The blond girl looked abnormal only in that she was out of place : her wide blue eyes , her long hair and long bare legs , her petulant expression , all these Bernice noticed at one glance , and dismissed . |
| 20 | 1156 followed its own decision in Rex v. Sheridan and applied it to facts which differed from those in Rex v. Sheridan only in that the defendant had there consented to be tried by a stipendiary magistrate and had pleaded guilty before the magistrate decided to commit him for trial on indictment . |
| 21 | Pigs and peccaries , even though they are similar in many respects — not least their looks — are related only in that they are both artiodactyls . |
| 22 | Hot bands differ from fundamentals only in that the initial state of the transition is a vibrationally excited state , and not the vibrational ground state of the molecule . |
| 23 | Both the RDP and the NDRP occupied the nebulous centre ground of South Korean politics and were distinct only in that each had a strong regional basis . |
| 24 | On this analysis , the x differs from this x and that x only in that this x is marked " + proximal " , that x is marked " - proximal " , and the x is unmarked for proximity , i.e. it is a neutral deictic term ( Lyons , 1977a : 653-4 ) . |
| 25 | She wanted somehow to have her mother for herself , but only so that she could reject her herself . |
| 26 | Indeed , his work rate is so high that his players are inspired to perform if only so that the old so-and-so does not get the better of them . |
| 27 | Indeed , his work rate is so high that his players are inspired to perform if only so that the old so-and-so does not get the better of them . |
| 28 | Although the heroine of George Eliot 's Felix Holt renounces her inheritance , it is only so that she can marry the man she loves . |
| 29 | The boxes are lined with either straw or wood shavings , not only so that the ferrets can be transported in comfort over bumpy farm tracks and fields , but also so that they can relax in comfort during the periods of rests after working . |
| 30 | He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike . |