Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Colin Howes , Branson 's lawyer , perhaps recognised better than most that Branson was in a period of significant transition . |
| 4 | ‘ My lord , I know better than any that I am not his match , ’ said Harry , stung and colouring vividly . |
| 5 | Yet reticence in sexual matters makes it less than probable that these will be the first mentioned . |
| 6 | Is the right hon. Gentleman saying that he would give a commitment on any terms less than those that we are prepared to give ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is only after this that the supporting role of outside sympathisers can be useful . |
| 16 | It was perhaps as well that David Damiani had not come back . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The caller asks if she can be informed as gently as possible that a very close relative has died . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Chronicle A ( s.a. 685 ) says that Caedwalla began to contend for the kingship in 685 , but it was not until 686 that he established himself as king over the western Saxons . |
| 24 | Even after that statute , however , it was probably not until 1338 that the king yielded up nominal , let alone actual , possession . |
| 25 | During the crisis which preceded the Civil War , an attempt had been made to tie the Crown to regular Parliaments with the Triennial Act of 1641 , but this Act had been repealed in 1664 and it was not until 1694 that an Act guaranteeing triennial Parliaments was passed . |
| 26 | About this time , Vermuyden vanished from public life , although it was not until 1677 that he died , full of years and riches , and was buried in St Margaret 's , Westminster . |
| 27 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 28 | It was not until 779 that Offa was able to defeat Cynewulf in battle and take Bensington , near Dorchester , from him ( ASC A , s.a. 777 ) and begin the re-annexation of this territory . |
| 29 | It was not until 584 that his bid for the throne made serious headway , and then only after the murder of Chilperic had left certain of his followers without a patron . |
| 30 | Yet it was not until 1612 that the little selection entitled Parthenia got into print . |