Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , after what we 've been through together that 's nothing short of childish . |
| 2 | Such comments were relatively rare , accounting for less that five percent of the sentences transcribed . |
| 3 | It is not for long that death is less difficult , the histories of self and other lost , and consciousness unconflicted . |
| 4 | The Crown was dependent upon Parliament for its important legislation and for much that was less significant too . |
| 5 | But it gave me satisfaction and comforted me for much that was otherwise missing from my life . |
| 6 | For only that morning , she had read in the paper a case of a man , and not an old man , who had dropped dead in the street of some heart complaint . |
| 7 | This suggests that the likes of Playboy , Mayfair and so on are not considered indecent by the law ( or , at least , their covers are not , for only that part of the material which is ‘ exposed to view ’ is covered by this particular law ) . |
| 8 | These workshops were responsible for only that part of the production process or those components of the final product most sensitive to labour cost differentials , and have been located principally in South-East Asia and parts of Latin America ( Grunwald and Flamm , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Yes , well the good news is , that there 's actually something called waiver of premium on the plan , which looks after exactly the , looks after exactly that case . |
| 10 | In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time . |
| 11 | That is absolutely right , and nothing has more clearly revealed the Opposition 's attitude to people 's wishes in the matter than their persistent hostility to the 4 million or more people who have taken out personal pensions for exactly that reason . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 13 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 14 | A meeting to decide next year 's budget is formally about just that — fixing the budget . |
| 15 | Many people are asking worried questions about just that point . |
| 16 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 17 | for just that reason Seljalandsfoss is best viewed from the side , unlike most other waterfalls . |
| 18 | The Rovertrail has been invented for just that situation ( and many others , of course . ) |
| 19 | Post-war criticism was ‘ gladiatorial ’ , as John Wain remarked years later , in 1972 , when the excitement had died down ; and attractive to the young for just that reason , since the young feed on moral drama : ‘ they need to feel that they are proving themselves by bravely attacking something powerful . ’ |
| 20 | It is rare , if not unknown , for the same voices to be heard if a sentence is too severe , although the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal frequently reduces sentences for just that reason . |
| 21 | But Toby was n't God , except to me for just that second , and he 'd been hurt . |
| 22 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 23 | But then he knew he would n't , because he would be doing it for just that reason even if he really preferred tea with lemon . |
| 24 | She knew , of course , had known from the cradle , that the Church as a worldly institution attempted too much and was , for just that reason , the more spectacular in its shortcomings ; was , in fact , absurd . |
| 25 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 26 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |
| 27 | But normally , but er the , they are for just that sort of product . |
| 28 | He was goading her , waiting for just that reaction . |
| 29 | Well I would n't like to see an exam system which was entirely multiple choice questions for just that reason . |
| 30 | They had dreamed of somewhere that was beyond the fence . |