Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today it is merely where we live now : sprawling cities with the rich in their high-rise steel and glass ghettos , with a marginalised underclass , pathetic and dangerous , occupying the waste ground and the rotting slums . |
| 2 | It is only when we remember that it has many internal parts , all obeying laws of physics at their own level , that we understand the behaviour of the whole body . |
| 3 | It is only when we put to it the rude experimental question " where are you ? " that it is forced to make the sharp choice between those two possibilities . |
| 4 | It is only when we reach old age , whenever that is , that we can experience and reflect upon an almost entire life cycle . |
| 5 | It is only when we try to extract some information by means of a measurement that the traumatic discontinuity of the collapse of the wavepacket takes place . |
| 6 | Paradoxically , it is only when we accept ourselves as we are that we begin to change . |
| 7 | As long as we do so , we 're ‘ credit users ’ : it is only when we fail that we become ‘ debtors ’ . |
| 8 | As long as we do so , we 're ‘ credit users ’ : it is only when we fail that we become ‘ debtors ’ . |
| 9 | It is only when we begin to face an illness that we can find a cure . |
| 10 | It is only when we start to get into the bigger patterns that the order in which the colours are to be used for knitting becomes crucial . |
| 11 | But that is only how we perceive it , how it registers itself to our physical senses , and not how it really is . |
| 12 | There is so much we can do ; there is so much we need to do . |
| 13 | We are told that it is the most flexible and fast-reacting source of aid , and that is exactly why we have pursued that route . |
| 14 | ‘ We can go back to Rose Cottage , always supposing Pook s Common is still where we left it , and I 'll make coffee , ’ she offered , aware that she should contribute to the peace that had broken out between them . |
| 15 | It would be hard to find three individuals more unalike than we are , which is probably why we 've stuck together all these years ! |
| 16 | It is both how we exercise and what we eat that defines our ‘ diata ’ . |
| 17 | But what I do n't understand is though why we have n't got an underground station at Stoke Newington and why Stoke Newington train station is n't linked up to Whitechapel . |
| 18 | It is particularly when we turn from comparisons with animals to the more characteristically human manifestations of our species that we hit the problem . |
| 19 | And this is sometimes where we get a little bit , you know , hung up , a a and and when we tend to make a little bit , we make mistakes a lot . |
| 20 | And this is sometimes where we slip up because fire is still prevailing with us even when we 're in home . |
| 21 | ‘ Which is precisely why we hope to … ’ |
| 22 | That is precisely why we allow local education authorities the flexibility to devise schemes to accommodate the particular circumstances of small schools and those with very high inherited salary costs . |
| 23 | That is precisely where we have been , which is why so many of the decisions reached in the past two days have been on British initiatives that have been accepted across the whole of Europe . |
| 24 | Second year is actually where we make money . |
| 25 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |