Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't turn his head to look after them and he was so still that even at a short distance they could no longer distinguish him from his surroundings . |
| 2 | erm I think in fact it would be better to ask Mr Bailey to explain what his concerns were erm I 'd just like to say first although initially it revolves around problems of drinking , I 'm looking at other issues of East Oxford , in that recently there 's been a great deal of concern about glue sniffing in sections there , and there have been various letters from residents in the local newspapers , and I think there 's a general level of problem for people living in East Oxford , and it 's not just that the people there want the streets cleaned up or whatever , they want something constructive and helpful to be done for people . |
| 3 | Also we mentioned an environmentally sound road system and it 's not only that we 're , as are you over there against the fourteen or twenty eight lane or whatever busy lane it is on the M twenty five , because by putting all just increasing the road capacity is gon na lead to great loss from Kings Kingston on Thames and Ashtead and Shepherds Bush to Solihull . |
| 4 | He says what you can see is most of the cities not only in Holland , but the whole world and of course in England have to deal with the growing of cars and it 's not only that the car is a good thing — the car has very bad things for the city as a whole . |
| 5 | ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is set in the Deep South of Alabama , where the majority of white men will not accept Negroes into a white society and it 's not only that the Negroes do not live amongst the whites , in some cases they are treated as if they are nobody . |
| 6 | And it 's right therefore that a policy should express that explicitly within the structure plan . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I consider that we have a very important national duty to perform in this respect ; this city is something more than the mother of arts and eloquence ; she is the mother of nations ; we are peopling two continents , the Western and the Southern Continent , and we are organising , christianising and civilising large portions of two ancient continents , Africa and Asia ; and it is not right that when the inhabitants of those countries come to the metropolis , they should see nothing worthy of its ancient renown . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 18 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was n't just some inevitable reserve because of the age difference , and it was n't just that she was an intensely private person whose public persona did n't tell the whole story . |
| 24 | Within the massiveness of the Science Museum , the Aeronautical Gallery can be found on the top floor and it was up here that the careful replanning and reshaping of the exhibits and display space took place . |
| 25 | All too soon it was time to go and it was almost reluctantly that she drove him back to Brooklands . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |
| 29 | Scales arrived back and it was only then that Wycliffe want into the office . |
| 30 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |