Example sentences of "that [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially in the years following abolition most antislavery reformers , though James Stephen was a notable exception , assumed that little if any government intervention was required in West Indian affairs to bring about improvements in slavery ; the self-interest of the planters would be sufficient . |
| 2 | The pursuit of the alternatives can be inhibited by the view that little if anything can be achieved within present resource limits . |
| 3 | True enough , but how easily this can lead to the conclusion that anyone who attempts to deal with things that matter must be a bore , that rather than run the risk of talking nonsense one should play it safe and stick to charming trifles … . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a question of horses for courses , finding the best route forward and adopting the practices to fit that rather than bulldozing your way through without perhaps realising the wider environment in which this needs to work , ’ says John Catford , director of the Health Promotion Authority for Wales and professor of health promotion at the University of Wales . |
| 5 | ‘ The greatest damage to Israel , ’ says Meir Amit , a former head of the intelligence agency , ‘ is that rather than being known as producers in agriculture , in genetics , or in medicine , our trademark is the security business . ’ |
| 6 | His proud boast is that ‘ the same principles which at first lead to scepticism , pursued to a certain point , bring men back to common sense ’ , and that rather than being a purveyor of wild and new paradoxes , he has ‘ unite[d] and place[d] in a clearer light that truth , which was before shared between the vulgar and the philosophers ’ . |
| 7 | In essence I proposed that rather than having public investment we should substitute private investment without any Government guarantee . |
| 8 | It is this latter fault alone which explains the fact that rather than waste precious time in thinking up some other location I was lazily content to make Miller 's London home a flat rather like the one in which I am now diligently at work , here in cruelly named Shepherd 's Bush . |
| 9 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 10 | It is more likely that rather than an increase in potency level itself , the large number of succussions produce a lateral intensification or energising of the solution within the confines of the dilution factor — a concept upheld by the LM method . |
| 11 | I would want to argue from this that rather than the combination of gender and text leading to a particular kind of meaning being produced , particular kinds of reading are being used to mark gender difference . |
| 12 | In a hypothetical life-form with both hands of amino acid it is possible that rather than no helices being created , there would be helical molecules which were true mirror images of one another . |
| 13 | It was once suggested to me that rather than remove my children from Liphook Junior School , I should try to fight the system from the inside and endeavour to change the school . |
| 14 | I figured that rather than have a tape and a black and white photo , I would have a CD that would be in colour . |
| 15 | The problem was that rather than landing Portuguese champion club Cascais in the semis they were drawn against the Saltires in a re-run of last year 's final . |
| 16 | The Consumers ' Association says that rather than give half the cover price to retailers , they prefer to sink the money into campaigning work and more investigations . |
| 17 | This means that rather than having one person responsible for all the funds — UK , Europe , Far East and so on — the different geographical locations are split up and allocated to managers specialising in that area . |
| 18 | This was compounded by an insane suggestion that rather than the England team owing their cheering 4–0 win over Turkey to Gascoigne , he owed his performance to them . |
| 19 | One helpful critic suggested that rather than remove the node-link-node triples that they be placed in the margins . |
| 20 | To disarm reluctant government ministers , the transnationals pointed out that there were other vast reserves in South America , Mexico , and Alaska , and that rather than find themselves restricted with petty regulations they would prefer to spend vast amounts on exploratory research elsewhere . |
| 21 | Russell said that rather than say ‘ I think ’ it would be better to say ‘ It thinks in me ’ , like ‘ It rains here ‘ . |
| 22 | Both denied that the underlying causes of the Reformation which he had identified had actually existed , claiming that rather than being an institution in terminal decline , the late medieval Catholic church had been ‘ a lively and relevant social institution ’ , displaying ‘ growing and vigorous ’ forms of piety . |
| 23 | Indeed , the initial experiences of the ECSC had led some to argue that rather than pursue a sector by sector strategy , it would be far easier and more logical to plan for the integration of whole economies . |
| 24 | The notion of centrifugal launchers was based on the idea that rather than using a long , straight runway , the aircraft could take-off following a circular path around a tower , or possibly a more mobile type of launcher , rather in the manner of ‘ round-the-pole ’ model aircraft . |
| 25 | I read a book by the American painter Charles Reid who said that rather than paint a dark background all round a daisy it is sometimes better to put just one dark drop of colour behind the vase of the petal to get the most impact . |
| 26 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 27 | He argues that rather than just ‘ shift sovereignty ’ to Brussels , the treaty in fact reasserts the rights of member nation-states through the subsidiarity principle . |
| 28 | Shell argues that rather than introducing new requirements of dubious value , governments should enforce existing regulations to force sub-standard ships out of business . |
| 29 | By late December , however , the president had , in any case , reversed his position and now took the view that rather than a tax increase a tax cut was required to stimulate the economy . |
| 30 | The explanation for the high level of institutional investment may lie partly in the fact that UK investors accept that some other investors operate with superior knowledge , and that rather than be forced out of the market altogether they tend to make use of institutional intermediaries such as Pensions Funds . |