Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adv] that we " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not just that we clearly do understand something ; rather we know in advance that it is only by understanding the sceptic 's argument as we are clearly expected to , that we could be led to believe that we understand nothing . |
| 2 | It is not simply that we can suspect the objective basis of ‘ knowledge ’ but that ‘ knowledge ’ is compartmentalized ; some kinds of ‘ knowledge ’ are considered more important than other kinds , and this is communicated very effectively in schools . |
| 3 | Elean : As a firm supporter of the South African People 's struggle , it is not often that we see this side of apartheid oppression coming out in the liberation literature . |
| 4 | It is even just that we should assign a greater degree of responsibility to children , for madmen , by virtue of their lack of free will , are completely without responsibility , while children , insofar as they possess reason in a partially developed form , can be held responsible ( i.e. can be required to take responsibility ) to a corresponding degree . |
| 5 | It is very rarely that we know the age of a bride . |
| 6 | It 's tempting to stop the drama at such morally dubious moments , but it is precisely here that we find the greatest learning opportunities . |
| 7 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 10 | We need to be in the Labour Party it is only there that we the unions can take part in making policy about the future of our industries and services , and taking care of our members . |
| 11 | ‘ And if you are being bewitched , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ and if you are being manipulated , then it is only so that we may save the world . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |