Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] that [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the final Munro has been with you all the way along , it 's only here that you feel you are now finally making your way towards it and the conclusion of the walk . |
| 2 | It 's only now that I feel that I could actually decide to have a relationship which is specifically going to be monogamous , which is a really big change for me … that makes me think immediately of AIDS but I 'm not sure . |
| 3 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's only recently that I 've felt able to write about him , but the controversy about Down 's Syndrome babies has brought it all to the surface . |
| 5 | It 's only then that you realise just what a dictatorship can be like . ’ |
| 6 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 7 | Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My object at this stage is simply to depose the concept of society as an organism in which , far more subtly than we can measure or identify ( it is only recently that we have begun to identify the chemical balance of the human organism of society ) , a certain balance between tendencies and elements , many in themselves dangerous , destructive and evil , has to be maintained as a condition of survival , but a balance which can be endangered , or lost , reversibly or irrevocably . |
| 12 | It is not simply that they have different views of the world , but that they each define what is the evidence in a different way . |
| 13 | However , the excitement is not simply that we have produced data consistent with the presence of large animals . |
| 14 | But also , it is not exactly that they bring sexuality to politics ( it was always already there ) ; rather deviant desire brings with it a different kind of political knowledge , and hence inflects both desire and politics differently . |
| 15 | Elean : As a firm supporter of the South African People 's struggle , it is not often that we see this side of apartheid oppression coming out in the liberation literature . |
| 16 | It is not often that I receive ‘ fan'-letters , and I always acknowledge them unless they are impertinent , or have obviously been written by lunatics . |
| 17 | The point is not only that we do as a matter of fact accept " the same meaning " and " a different meaning " as intelligible concepts , but that any attempt to define the criteria of interchangeability of expressions with regard to their meaning presupposes their intelligibility . |
| 18 | ‘ The sobering thought , as decades turn , ’ says social psychologist Duncan Cramer , ‘ is not only that we have less time to live , but that options also narrow . ’ |
| 19 | There is still much that we need to know about HIV and AIDS , and we are all learning all of the time . |
| 20 | There is still much that we do not know ; J. Hartley in a thirty-year survey ended shatteringly : There is a complex job to be done . |
| 21 | I guess it 's probably just that he glide up to the second part of the diphthong , has been displaced so you 've just got the first part of it left , |
| 22 | It is n't only that they enjoy commercial success and critical acclaim , but because they are , in the jargon of the trade , ‘ good copy ’ — talkative , controversial , witty and opinionated on a whole range of topics . |
| 23 | Well it is n't only that I mean er we do n't provide the food when they 're at home , do we ? |
| 24 | It is n't often that you hear a genuine story of a tail wagging the dog but spreadsheets and personal computers are just such a case . |
| 25 | It 's tempting to stop the drama at such morally dubious moments , but it is precisely here that we find the greatest learning opportunities . |
| 26 | It is no longer that I find that it is a four bedroomed bungalow which is required , with bedrooms of sufficient size in the case of the plaintiff and the plaintiff 's parents and that work of alteration er to the bungalow will be necessary along the lines of Mr report but it will not involve the building of any extension . |
| 27 | It is very rarely that we know the age of a bride . |
| 28 | It 's very rarely that I have |
| 29 | That was presumably then that we think Lawrence was there , it 's flat , we think his wife 's there . |