Example sentences of "only that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our commitment as a party to home rule , we proceed on the footing not only that the distinctive characteristics of Scotland and its people need expression and institutions of government , but that the demands of modern government require those institutions to be immediate , sensitive and properly democratic . |
| 2 | The Party Programme , adopted at the same congress , promised only that the Soviet Union would ‘ do what it could ’ to assist socialist-oriented states in the developing world ; and authoritative commentaries made it clear that the USSR preferred the peaceful settlement of regional conflicts rather than the ‘ export of revolution ’ . |
| 3 | The legislation makes it clear that peasant migration was no new phenomenon , only that the new bout produced by Viking activity was causing some headaches for landlords . |
| 4 | But for parallel development in relation to the parliamentary franchise , the position thus brought about might have resembled too closely that which prevailed under the Stuarts , save only that the pretended despot would have been a Prime Minister , able to influence the composition of Parliament to an excessive degree , rather than a monarch claiming Divine Right . |
| 5 | Thus , the ‘ equation ’ is really an identity which must always be true : it tells us only that the total amount of money handed over in transactions is equal to the value of what is sold . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was only that the hot climb had tired her but it seemed more than that . |
| 7 | However , self-preservation requires not only that the mean velocity distribution should be similar , but also that all the parameters associated with the turbulence should have similar distributions at different stations . |
| 8 | The days for R&D are over : we need demonstration , and so far the Prototype Fast Reactor has demonstrated only that the non-nuclear bits of the technology do n't work particularly well . |
| 9 | One of Shaughnessy 's sources , with close links to Israeli intelligence , actually claimed to have heard the tapes of these telephone intercepts , and another , well-connected with the US intelligence community , confirmed not only that the Iranian Embassy 's calls had been monitored at that time but also the substance of the Lovejoy — Niknam conversations . |
| 10 | They dismiss US claims that the war is ‘ going to plan ’ , noting only that the multi-national force is four weeks into a war which shows no likelihood of ending soon at the time of writing . |
| 11 | Ashdown 's office will cautiously admit only that the former jungle warrior is on a private visit to the islands , part of a series of nationwide consultations with ‘ ordinary people ’ . |
| 12 | In 16 , however ( and perhaps in 15 , too ) , it is possible to argue not only that the two sentences can be used to make identical statements , but more specifically that horse and mare make effectively the same semantic contribution to their respective sentences . |
| 13 | The usefulness of some system of cooperation and team work is not only that the particular subject knowledge or skills of teachers can be pooled and shared , The teacher also needs support and advice in a more personal and practical sense . |
| 14 | We shall assume not only that the IS-LM model is the correct model but also that agents know that it is the correct model . |
| 15 | I do n't remember much about our arrival , only that the fourteen-kilometre drive from the airport was something of a nightmare with visibility almost nil in pouring rain mixed with flurries of hail and howling gusts of wind . |
| 16 | Since Jarvella instructed his subjects to recall as much as they could remember word for word , and he scored for accuracy of verbatim recall , these results suggest not only that the last-heard clause has the highest verbatim recall but also that the amount of syntactic information which is being retained about a preceding clause depends on whether or not that clause forms part of a larger linguistic unit which also includes the most recent clause . |
| 17 | It is not only that the social range of fiction becomes much more inclusive , allowing the writer to explore interiors that make no claim to architecture , but that living space itself develops individual character . |
| 18 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 19 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 20 | ‘ Only that the same typewriter was used to send MacQuillan a death threat . ’ |
| 21 | That does not mean , however , that legal challenge is unimportant as part of a broader political strategy canvassing for change , only that the indirect effects of test cases may be more significant than any direct changes in the law brought about by them . |