Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given Hobbes 's view of egocentric human nature , according to which people always act in such a way as to produce pleasure and avoid pain , it is plain how they will behave in an ungoverned state of nature . |
| 2 | If Brindley 's detractors thought his stone aqueduct was a mad idea , it is as well they were not alive to see this amazing piece of engineering successfully accomplished . |
| 3 | Furthermore , different religions may need different symbols , and it is only when they are treated as fetishes , or when they become the means whereby one religion claims superiority over another , that they cease to be of value and are fit only to be discarded . |
| 4 | Or again , for the ruling class or race against which such a movement rebels , as long as its authority is secure there are very strong practical advantages in thinking of its subjects as incapable of governing themselves , happy and carefree in their poverty , innately inferior in intelligence , out of work only if lazy , loyal and grateful for all one has done for them unless misled by irresponsible agitators ; it is only when they start to be dangerously restive that it becomes practically useful to understand their motives and capacities better . |
| 5 | It is only when they have been thus adopted that conscious strategy turns into habitual rule , coping into culture . |
| 6 | It is only when they come together to form a pattern which gets progressively worse that the probability of Chemical Dependency increases . |