Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] that [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 2 | Well it 's only recently that she 's started drinking orange juice I know But she has n't liked it at all . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's only recently that I 've felt able to write about him , but the controversy about Down 's Syndrome babies has brought it all to the surface . |
| 4 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 7 | I was against this sport all along , but it is only now that I have read the page in the Leicester Mercury that I feel bold enough to speak out to you . |
| 8 | My object at this stage is simply to depose the concept of society as an organism in which , far more subtly than we can measure or identify ( it is only recently that we have begun to identify the chemical balance of the human organism of society ) , a certain balance between tendencies and elements , many in themselves dangerous , destructive and evil , has to be maintained as a condition of survival , but a balance which can be endangered , or lost , reversibly or irrevocably . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's very rarely that I have |
| 12 | It was near here that he had found the little white orchid . |
| 13 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 14 | It was quite simply that she had wanted to be with him . |
| 15 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 16 | No , because er I always put it down to the fact that most of our takings were in coin , it was very seldom that you had a pound note , you possibly had a ten pound note in those days but most of it was coinage and the cash when it was married up , was put into steel bound wooden boxes . |