Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is still much that we need to know about HIV and AIDS , and we are all learning all of the time . |
| 8 | There is still much that we do not know ; J. Hartley in a thirty-year survey ended shatteringly : There is a complex job to be done . |
| 9 | It 's tempting to stop the drama at such morally dubious moments , but it is precisely here that we find the greatest learning opportunities . |
| 10 | It is no longer that I find that it is a four bedroomed bungalow which is required , with bedrooms of sufficient size in the case of the plaintiff and the plaintiff 's parents and that work of alteration er to the bungalow will be necessary along the lines of Mr report but it will not involve the building of any extension . |
| 11 | It is very rarely that we know the age of a bride . |