Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I believe that the money should be spent now on the services used now , and we must ensure that the planning is right so that the terminus is built in the right place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The problem with British rain is only partly that there has not been enough of it . |
| 7 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | However , it is only rarely that the more esoteric operations are ever used , particularly in programs compiled from high-level languages . |
| 12 | It is only rarely that places become the heroes of operas , yet such is the case of Peter Grimes . |
| 13 | It is only later that the effect of this spending becomes apparent and more money may have to be spent to reach an effect that is desired . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The criticism of Turgenev is only incidentally that he is stuck in the 1840s and not far-sighted enough . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Created God can have existence only in the minds of men , for it is only there that things without material substance can exist , and are therefore spiritual . |
| 20 | Most are working in central London , some also in one or two other major cities , since it is only there that the sort of prestigious hotels and banqueting suites which can mount an almost unbroken series of events are to be found . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is only now that the correctness of this approach is becoming apparent . |
| 24 | However , it is only now that Richard Thompson has uncovered what appears to be the engram for a specific memory . |
| 25 | ‘ It is much , much longer and it is only now that you have time to realise what it means to you . |
| 26 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |
| 27 | It is only now that men and women are beginning to realize that representative institutions are not necessarily guardians of freedom but can themselves become engines of tyranny . |
| 28 | It is only now that the attention can be turned onto the actual hardware and software that will be required . |
| 29 | For it is only now that reason returns to me : she 's putting it on , you know she can do it . |
| 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 . |