Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 2 | This is all so that we can produce more that we can eat , and yet for some reason the excess ca n't be sold off at reduced prices . |
| 3 | The problem with British rain is only partly that there has not been enough of it . |
| 4 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The criticism of Turgenev is only incidentally that he is stuck in the 1840s and not far-sighted enough . |
| 10 | Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation . |
| 11 | We need to be in the Labour Party it is only there that we the unions can take part in making policy about the future of our industries and services , and taking care of our members . |
| 12 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |
| 13 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is only then that they will be deemed ready to report to the flying squadron . |
| 17 | The problem for beginning readers is to decode the visual symbols into a form which can be recognised , for it is only then that they will be able to bring previously gained knowledge to bear upon the meaning of the text . |
| 18 | It is only then that I can get up and interpose myself between his wet shirtfront and the sink , where the suds soak into my lower back . |
| 19 | ‘ And if you are being bewitched , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ and if you are being manipulated , then it is only so that we may save the world . ’ |
| 20 | Although the heroine of George Eliot 's Felix Holt renounces her inheritance , it is only so that she can marry the man she loves . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 23 | It is only recently that I discovered that we are all born potentially good , demanding love and wanting nothing more than to give it in return . |
| 24 | Sooner or later , the knee will have to make a move , but now it is immobilised by the two flies , the lower of which is so still that it seems dead . |
| 25 | Sir , — While post-match camaraderie among opposing rugby players is legend , it is less often that their respect and concern for each other on the field of play receives recognition . |
| 26 | It is much more that he seems to be playing games . |
| 27 | It is not just that one supplements the Other : . |
| 28 | A sign of our having grown up is not just that we would n't listen to a Top Twenty single even if by any chance we could , but that we organize life so that we will never have to listen , by chance , to a Top Twenty single . |
| 29 | It is not just that we clearly do understand something ; rather we know in advance that it is only by understanding the sceptic 's argument as we are clearly expected to , that we could be led to believe that we understand nothing . |
| 30 | It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state . |