Example sentences of "[det] [subord] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little to say about this except that if living alone is a new experience for you you will tend to buy too much at first and waste a lot unless you cook and freeze . |
| 2 | There 's an effigy on the Black Prince 's tomb at Canterbury Cathedral , just like this except that his hands are together in prayer … ’ |
| 3 | I could n't see the logic of this except that it protected Thatcher from any hint of ‘ doing deals with terrorists ’ . |
| 4 | Gutters and downpipes , once made of cast iron , are now nearly always of PVC , and none the worse for that except that they need more frequent supports . |
| 5 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 6 | It is n't that his pleasure in masculinity is suspect so much as that all that sensuous attention tells us something else about the cult of masculinity among men . |
| 7 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 8 | Nor was Vivien Saunders , who recently won her second British Coach of the Year award , being wise after the event when she talked of how , in her teaching , she emphasises nothing so much as that a youngster should attack the hole . |
| 9 | I did n't think we were doing that because that that that |
| 10 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 11 | The Chancellor is now prepared to claim no more than that the deficit is ‘ more or less flattening out ’ . |
| 12 | Rizzo maintains no more than that it is possible that he wrote the poem . |
| 13 | This means no more than that the authoritative requirement is an additional factor . |
| 14 | This obviously stresses a desire to reach a specific cultural community , but more than that Saab 's position also indicates the political aspects of cultural work . |
| 15 | In the 21st chapter of the book of Revelation the Apostle John describes the future eternal state — the ‘ new Jerusalem ’ ( v. 2 ) and we learn that this ‘ new Jerusalem ’ is in fact ‘ a bride adorned for her husband ’ ( v. 2 ) and more than that it is ‘ the Lamb 's wife ’ ( v. 9 ) . |
| 16 | Gaius claims no more than that these four expressions are typical ; his list is not exhaustive . |
| 17 | When Sir Oliver suggests asking eight or ten per cent on the loan , Mr Moses says if he asks him no more than that his impersonation will be discovered . |
| 18 | This means no more than that a statement to that effect will be included in the order paper . |
| 19 | More than that I believe that what is right needs to be said . |
| 20 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 21 | But she was , of course , unable or unwilling to tell me much more than that my son was dead , and that there were certain wounds . |
| 22 | More than that you ca n't ask of a techno record . |
| 23 | But more than that most want the satisfaction of feeling they are doing a worthwhile job well — and here the unions do n't seem to offer much help . |
| 24 | Dr Robert South emphasized this point when he declared shortly after the Restoration that the Anglican church ‘ glories in nothing more than that she is the truest friend to kings and to kingly government of any Church in the world ’ . |
| 25 | To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience . |
| 26 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 27 | But this comes down to saying no more than that the dog eats the meat not the eggplant . |
| 28 | To say , in the abstract , that birds have a right to fly seems to me rather foolish if it be taken as saying more than that most birds fly naturally . |
| 29 | It means little more than that you can compute the direction and velocity of movement of an object independently of its colour or its depth . |
| 30 | This is to say no more than that the patient 's agenda , derived from his own theories of illness and his own biographical relevances , may conflict with the doctor 's agenda . |