Example sentences of "be [adv] [subord] the [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm strong in mind , too , though it 's only since the kids that I 've got more patient and confident . |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH the first course in business ethics was offered by Harvard Business School back in 1915 , it is only since the mid-1980s that business schools have truly taken the subject to their hearts . |
| 3 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 4 | Although as long ago as the early 1970s it had been shown that protein synthesis inhibitors were without effect on habituation and sensitization , it was not until the mid-1980s that Kandel turned his attention to the longer-term cellular processes . |
| 5 | If I were to approach my sixth criterion I needed to find someone who knew their way round an oscilloscope , and it was n't until the mid-1980s that a bright , if somewhat cranky , scuba-diving enthusiast arrived on campus to do a PhD . |