Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] that [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In our experience dogs manage the loss of a front leg slightly better than that of a back leg .
2 There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system .
3 It is twenty times faster , has a larger memory , is thousands of times more reliable , consumes the power of a light bulb rather than that of a locomotive , occupies 1/30,000 the volume and costs 1/10,000 as much .
4 We choose to consider a system programmer 's view rather than that of an application programmer ( even at the assembler language level ) , because the latter would expect to use facilities provided by supervisory software to mask the hardware treatment of such things as transput control .
5 However , it is only fair to comment that he did place the lives of two of his most valuable NCOs in jeopardy as well as that of an officer whom he could ill afford to lose .
6 But even so , you would n't have thought it went as fast as that in a creature that moves so slowly , would you , Miss Honey ? ’
7 Yes okay but that in a way comes under questions does n't it yes .
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