Example sentences of "and [pers pn] be [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't turn his head to look after them and he was so still that even at a short distance they could no longer distinguish him from his surroundings . |
| 2 | And it 's right therefore that a policy should express that explicitly within the structure plan . |
| 3 | Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes . |
| 4 | Because I have also read other of Rosa Guy 's novels , I know that her style is continuous throughout her stories and it is very rarely that one of her books ends happily . |
| 5 | Most of science is built up on good solid craftsmanship and it is only rarely that the occasional blinding flash of world-shattering importance ever really occurs . |
| 6 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |
| 7 | Notoriously young children learn very quickly how to recite numbers in the right order without having any clear notion of their " cardinal " properties , and it is only gradually that they begin to associate their respective positions in the number series with a relation of magnitude . |
| 8 | The constant movement of troops through these areas caused great economic dislocation for the local populace and it is only recently that a number of Civil War ‘ hoards ’ have been found . |
| 9 | Today is the actual anniversary of the tragic night in Tottenham when Eubank crushed Watson — and it is only recently that the Islington fighter has started to make a real recovery . |
| 10 | Some additional information has emerged but , unfortunately , mouse chromosomes have not responded well to the high resolution techniques developed for human chromosomes and it is only recently that a higher resolution idiogram has been published ( 14 ) . |
| 11 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 12 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 13 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The nineteenth century saw the mill converted to flour milling , with three pairs of millstones driven by an overshot waterwheel of 22 foot diameter , and it was probably then that a weatherboarded hoist loft was added to the building . |
| 16 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 17 | All too soon it was time to go and it was almost reluctantly that she drove him back to Brooklands . |
| 18 | Accordingly , most products developed were based on large , textual databases and it was only slowly that developers began stretching the medium to deliver images and sound in addition to text . |
| 19 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 20 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |
| 21 | Scales arrived back and it was only then that Wycliffe want into the office . |
| 22 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 23 | It states that the Croats were marched back into Yugoslavia , and it was only there that the mass-killings by Tito 's supporters began . |