Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it is [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 2 | He adds that it is not in the traders ' interests for the elephants to die out . |
| 3 | ‘ You are an apprentice historian and therefore should know that it is only in this century that this attempt to sanitise death has stricken our race . |
| 4 | I realise that it is constantly in the interests of the Opposition to belittle the Government 's successes , but that is certainly one . |
| 5 | The fact that you realise that it is out of his area of interest but may be useful to him personally should be made clear in the covering note that goes with the sample . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope you realise that it is only on account of the entreaty of Taheb that I see you , Huy , ’ were his words of greeting . |
| 7 | Senior commission officials say that it is up to national governments to get a move on . |
| 8 | The King 's Cross scheme may not be perfect and I respect the views of local Members who say that it is far from perfect . |
| 9 | Beattie concludes that it is only during the hesitant phase of a speech cycle that the clause is a major unit of speech planning . |
| 10 | The warranties require the Vendor to confirm that it is not in breach of any obligations ; that is not something which the Purchaser can confirm . |
| 11 | Mr Delors insists that it is up to the pontifical authorities to check that everything is above board . |
| 12 | Later metabolic studies of methotrexate revealed that it is virtually without effect in the rabbit because of a metabolic peculiarity . |
| 13 | All the artificial constraints of maintaining a regulated monopoly mean that it is not in the best interests of the consumer . |
| 14 | Musty ‘ off ’ smells mean that it is out of condition . |
| 15 | The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well . |
| 16 | The site already has a licence for waste disposal , but Leigh says that it is now considering the future of the site . |
| 17 | Piaget and Klein also show that it is only through the intrinsically dynamic relationship between the infant and its environment that the subject is able to become itself . |
| 18 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs and at last somebody out there has the common sense to recognise that fact too : the new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4 to 6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix ’ ; if that does n't bring the punters piling in , nothing will . |
| 19 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs . |
| 20 | Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) . |
| 21 | It is clear that the Soviet economy is at an impasse , but we have tried to suggest that it is not at the abyss . |
| 22 | Having firmly rejected this device for the other adjective constructions discussed so far ( not excluding the postnominal attributive ) , we consider that it is only in Sections 4.5 onwards that we have encountered a construction where the adjective can reasonably be treated in this way . |
| 23 | Pointing out difficulties is a very common behaviour but is one of the riskier ones because research shows that it is far from certain how people will take it . |
| 24 | The example of the a-ray microscope shows that it is far from clear how these two worlds could be juxtaposed without subverting and contradicting the very quantum theory they were invented to explain . |
| 25 | But we can now see that it is n't like that at all . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman will understand that it is not for us to tie the hands of the Government of Kenya but to encourage , offer help and point the way whenever we possibly can . |
| 27 | However they put aside their competitiveness ( the Caledonian and Balmoral in Edinburgh , for example , are fighting for exactly the same guests ) because they know that it is only by working together , as one body , that they will attract visitors to Scotland in the first place . |
| 28 | As this suggests , the appeal of such a tune could be seen as a ‘ leftover ’ , an ‘ echo ’ of a bygone era of craftsmanship ; and Adorno recognizes the possibility of this — indeed , he acknowledges that it is precisely in popular music that the category of the ‘ idea ’ ( a relatively independent , memorable element within a totality , a phenomenon more or less abandoned by ‘ serious ’ music ) lives on , and with it a sense of creative spontaneity ( Adorno 1976 : 34–7 ) . |
| 29 | This is such hard work that you may decide that it is n't worth the effort and abandon your attempt to acquire the skills in question . |
| 30 | remember that it is up to you what you include on your schedule The more accurately you can assess your expenditure for the next year , the easier it should prove to keep on top of your finances . |