Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] that [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's only recently that she 's started drinking orange juice I know But she has n't liked it at all . |
| 2 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 3 | Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation . |
| 4 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 5 | Sooner or later , the knee will have to make a move , but now it is immobilised by the two flies , the lower of which is so still that it seems dead . |
| 6 | It is much more that he seems to be playing games . |
| 7 | It is not just that he persists in the language of ‘ lord ’ and ‘ servant , when Esau has called him ‘ brother ’ , though that is significant enough . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry . |
| 9 | It is not enough that he believes them to have been stolen : Haughton v Smith [ 1975 ] AC 476 ( HL ) . |
| 10 | in the marriage relationship it 's not just that he says I have taken you , and all that you have now is mine , I take your debt and I discharge it fully , your debt of holiness to God , your debt of righteousness to God , he says I take it and I pay that price in full ! |
| 11 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 12 | It 's not just that he needs the money . ’ |
| 13 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 14 | It is n't just that she does n't have the stomach to eat anything because of her morbid dread of flying ; more that she ca n't accept touching anything anti-Green . |
| 15 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |