Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] that [noun] " in BNC.

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31 It is then that Tara will belong to the Humans . ’
32 It is then that Ahn stepped forward to protect me .
33 Feelings and emotions are examined in depth , and it is then that pupils can be seen struggling to come to terms with right and wrong .
34 They appear in vast numbers in the Antarctic Ocean particularly in summer ( they depend for food upon the blooms of phytoplankton ) and it is then that whales like the blue migrate towards the pole to feed .
35 In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) .
36 Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way .
37 To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male .
38 It is only that people have lost the secret . ’
39 He is right that parents as well as young people should know the dangers , and I will refer my hon. Friend 's suggestions to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department .
40 Of course he is right that funerals are often rather gloomy , and it can be quite a bore to visit people in hospital .
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