Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adj] that " in BNC.

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1 The court may disallow an amendment on its own motion or on application , and shall do so where satisfied that if an application for leave had been applied for under Ord 15 , r 1 it would have been refused ( Ord 15 , r 2(3) ) .
2 The court may grant leave on the written request alone or direct that a date be fixed for hearing in which case notice must be given to the applicant and other persons as directed by the court ( FPCR , r3(2) ; FPR , r4.3(2) ) .
3 Bukharin understood better than most that Stalin 's mania — as it was shown to be — for breakneck industrialisation was to bring many years of misery and suffering to all the Soviet peoples .
4 Colin Howes , Branson 's lawyer , perhaps recognised better than most that Branson was in a period of significant transition .
5 ‘ My lord , I know better than any that I am not his match , ’ said Harry , stung and colouring vividly .
6 So that so that actual that particular settlement was rather a good one , because it was thirty odd million plus eight was n't it ?
7 So that that that that
8 A bias is evaluated for each lexicographer so that those that are receiving less than their ‘ fair share ’ are given priority over others .
9 Yet reticence in sexual matters makes it less than probable that these will be the first mentioned .
10 Is the right hon. Gentleman saying that he would give a commitment on any terms less than those that we are prepared to give ?
11 Art schools have been closed down and those that survive are permitted only to the extent to which they have converted to a market economy .
12 The one inescapable impression left by it all is that the canal system as a whole was so run down and dilapidated that nothing short of a central canal authority wiling and able to undertake a vast investment programme could have any hope of making the canals profitable again .
13 For example in Secretary of State for Education and Science v. Tameside Metropolitan B.C. ( H. L. , 1977 ) the Minister had power to take over certain education functions only if satisfied that the local education authority was acting unreasonably .
14 It should only do so if satisfied that the child has suffered , or is likely to suffer , significant harm leading to the need for a child protection plan .
15 Even in these cases the court has a discretion to order jury trial , although it will apply a presumption in favour of trial by judge alone if satisfied that otherwise the trial would be so complicated , costly and lengthy that the administration of justice would be likely to suffer .
16 It was absurd that she had n't guessed straightaway and absurd that he should be standing in a telephone booth somewhere , talking about a queue forming .
17 The court can proceed in the absence of any respondent but should not do so unless satisfied that the respondent has received reasonable notice of the hearing or that the circumstances justify proceeding in his absence ( FPCR , r16(3) and ( 4 ) ; FPR , r4.16(3) and ( 4 ) ) .
18 It seems likely that there is something about the state we are in while asleep that prevents memories from being stored in the normal way .
19 Despite their preponderance in numbers still — for probably not a great many had been slain — fleeing in all directions as they had done , horseless and with few if any senior commanders , it was all but inconceivable that they could re-form and offer any coherent opposition .
20 The ruling makes it all but certain that Britain will be found guilty on charges relating to these matters when the case comes before the European Court later this year .
21 It now looks all but certain that there will be a new man in the White House leading the United States in a new direction .
22 It is only after this that the supporting role of outside sympathisers can be useful .
23 It was perhaps as well that David Damiani had not come back .
24 It is perhaps as well that the British Library does not concern itself with such phenomena , but the absence of the raw material means , again , that it can not be studied properly at what is the centre of literary culture par excellence .
25 The caller asks if she can be informed as gently as possible that a very close relative has died .
26 If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward .
27 Pesticides dealt with pests , weedkillers with weeds , hybridisation with the fact that some varieties were axed in favour of those which speedily produced more , rather than those that produced fewer , or less , but of better quality .
28 This is why , in a large number of instances , the major , large executive searches go to the top firms rather than those that are smaller .
29 Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both .
30 The because clauses that required the more complex inferences were , in general , longer than those that required simple inferences , so the combined reading and judgement times were longer overall for these sentences .
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