Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As as I said we 're we 're not very formal but er you know that also has its especially if people that er maybe erm , how can I put it , are not used t taking everything back to a meeting and you know they maybe make a decision and go ahead with it and then it gets shouted at a bit but I think we we can all take being shouted at a bit as well . |
| 2 | ‘ If that 's the case , it 's time to knuckle down because ability that does n't come covered in sweat is not enough . ’ |
| 3 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 4 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 5 | cabinet , so as Marian that says |
| 6 | In fact the wording of the Act makes it clear that it is only as mothers that women are given priority in the public sector . |
| 7 | Despite Alcuin 's plea to Aethelheard that he not be stripped of his pallium during his lifetime , it was only as bishop that Hygeberht attended the council of Chelsea in 801 ( CS 302 : S 158 ) and as abbot , that of Clofesho in 803 . |
| 8 | And just like in the bad old days , it was coincidence rather than cleverness that saved the Doctor . |
| 9 | And do you think that 's really going to be an application , as it were , that will appeal more to the lay person rather than person that uses a computer for business or professionally one way or another ? |
| 10 | Instead of her more bellicose approach , the somewhat more neutralist stance of the West Germans loomed larger in NATO , and indeed it was Bonn rather than London that seemed to have the closer relationship with Washington in 1989 . |
| 11 | Chair , can I suggest that some of the people who are actually involved in this are actually asked themselves rather than agencies that might be working with them , because I think that , that most of the , the sort of people we 're talking about are actually very sensitive . |
| 12 | It seems that male spatial arrangements are contingent upon those of females , who are themselves dispersed in relation to dietary ecology , and yet in this species it is females rather than males that move between social units . |
| 13 | The induction of recruits became a more civilized process in September 1862 when Miliutin declared that their heads need not be shaved and that they ought to be conducted to the barracks in everyday clothing rather than clothes that made them look like convicts . |
| 14 | It is words rather than meanings that are problematic ; in fact , the point of reform is to ensure that words express what speakers ‘ really mean ’ rather than unfortunately conveying something speakers do not intend . |
| 15 | Again , it was reason rather than faith that led him to believe that this was the only adequate ground for the proclamation of the universal offer of the Gospel . |
| 16 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 17 | Deviant motivations , for example , are still taken as given ; it is conformity rather than deviance that remains problematic . |
| 18 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |
| 19 | It was his parents rather than John that helped them financially . |
| 20 | It may have been preferable to issue the national curriculum documents as guidelines , templates of good practice against which schools could evaluate their extant curriculum rather than requirements that have to be met . |
| 21 | It is events , however , rather than personalities that generate change quickest in Whitehall . |
| 22 | But it 's as Hirst 's sidekick rather than replacement that Bright can see his Wednesday career taking off . |
| 23 | Since then it is events rather than governments that have been in command . |
| 24 | A real beauty of a goal from Les Robinson … there 'll not be many better than that this season but it 's quantity rather than quality that counts and within two minutes it was one-all … |
| 25 | Elite theorists argue more generally than pluralists that where elites can not act with a considerable degree of autonomy in deeply divided societies , centrifugal tendencies are much more likely than centripetal ones ( Nordlinger , 1972 ) . |
| 26 | It was not until Compline that his non-appearance provoked wonder , comment and finally uneasiness , for he was unrelenting in observance , whatever else might be said of him . |
| 27 | Although the points made in extract ( 11 ) could have been expressed objectively as statements that certain buildings in certain locations are more beautiful since restoration , both speakers relate such statements to personal experience . |
| 28 | It was Vietnam wrongs and civil rights more than scandals that rained down on Lyndon Johnson ‘ like a Longhorn steer pissing on a rock ’ , as less delicate Texans were wont to put it . |
| 29 | it was strength more than endurance that took Gloucester 's Lorraine Shaw in to the final of the hammer competition at the three A's championship at the weekend … she finished third with a throw of 51.76 … |
| 30 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |