Example sentences of "[conj] it be [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might save money , but in terms of the environmental impact it is quite disastrous , and I think that it 's only now that the real problems in London for example are coming home to roost , er and I would ask that point to be borne in mind by whoever we decide should make representations to the commissioners . |
| 2 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 3 | My surprise does not arise from the possibility of a Government defeat over the social chapter but from the fact that it is only now that such a story has found its way onto the front pages . |
| 4 | The joke was that it was sometime later that we learnt the whole affair had been staged by Basil who had been in earlier to go through his in-tray and deal with the important memos , etc . |
| 5 | And it 's right therefore that a policy should express that explicitly within the structure plan . |
| 6 | Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes . |
| 7 | Because I have also read other of Rosa Guy 's novels , I know that her style is continuous throughout her stories and it is very rarely that one of her books ends happily . |
| 8 | Most of science is built up on good solid craftsmanship and it is only rarely that the occasional blinding flash of world-shattering importance ever really occurs . |
| 9 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The constant movement of troops through these areas caused great economic dislocation for the local populace and it is only recently that a number of Civil War ‘ hoards ’ have been found . |
| 12 | Today is the actual anniversary of the tragic night in Tottenham when Eubank crushed Watson — and it is only recently that the Islington fighter has started to make a real recovery . |
| 13 | Some additional information has emerged but , unfortunately , mouse chromosomes have not responded well to the high resolution techniques developed for human chromosomes and it is only recently that a higher resolution idiogram has been published ( 14 ) . |
| 14 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 15 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 16 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |
| 17 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 18 | The nineteenth century saw the mill converted to flour milling , with three pairs of millstones driven by an overshot waterwheel of 22 foot diameter , and it was probably then that a weatherboarded hoist loft was added to the building . |
| 19 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 20 | All too soon it was time to go and it was almost reluctantly that she drove him back to Brooklands . |
| 21 | Accordingly , most products developed were based on large , textual databases and it was only slowly that developers began stretching the medium to deliver images and sound in addition to text . |
| 22 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 23 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |
| 24 | Scales arrived back and it was only then that Wycliffe want into the office . |
| 25 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 26 | It states that the Croats were marched back into Yugoslavia , and it was only there that the mass-killings by Tito 's supporters began . |
| 27 | Moreover , if it is right here that the tax was repaid as a matter of extra-statutory discretion , and interest from the date of Nolan J. 's order was paid on the same basis , it is not clear to me how a review of the discretionary refusal to pay interest which was not due in law can properly be examined by way of judicial review . |
| 28 | But it is very lately that the truly magnificent taste in gardening has flourished in these northern parts of Europe , for although in King Charles the Second 's reign there was great spirit amongst the nobility and gentry of England for planting and gardening , which spirit was greatly heighten 'd in King William 's reign , during which time most of the large gardens of England were laid out and planted , yet we find the taste at that time extended little farther than to small pieces of box-wood , finish 'd parterres and clipp 'd greens , all of which are now generally banished out of the gardens of the most polite persons of this age , who justly prefer the more extended rural designs of gardens which approach the nearest to nature . |
| 29 | It 's tempting to stop the drama at such morally dubious moments , but it is precisely here that we find the greatest learning opportunities . |
| 30 | 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 . |