Example sentences of "of the [noun] [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The caves gave shelter to a new generation of troglodytes — European nomads , Australian girls ending their ‘ Grand Tours ’ by going native , those few English women who had felt the lure of the desert so intently that they now nursed fair-haired , olive-skinned babies and hung their washing-lines from one eroded pinnacle to another . |
| 2 | At that time deep ecologists tended to emphasise the value of the whole so exclusively that they seemed to rule out altogether any value for its parts and particularly for individuals , whether human or animal . |
| 3 | Now Mill concedes that the guardian , the despots might manage the affairs of the state tolerably well that there 's no reason of principle why a very enlightened despot could n't do fairly well , although Mill claims that no despot could do as well as a good democracy . |
| 4 | He had a clear , incisive mind and might be able to blow some of the cobwebs away so that she knew what to say to Amsterdam when the time came . |
| 5 | Adjust the size of the spaces fractionally so that the total of scallops and spaces equals the width of the finished curtain . |
| 6 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |