Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] that [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour Party , or its thinking wing , is polishing its credentials so remarkably that Mr Smith 's team will look quite different when they get to meet us all again in the polling booth . |
| 2 | The fact that Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger ( Bryan Ferry could n't come because he had a cold ) were at my d'Offay Gallery opening last year raised it into a social event , so much so that Robin Vousden said , ‘ We have n't had an opening like this since Andy Warhol ’ . |
| 3 | Strachan on song is a familiar sound this season , so much so that Howard Wilkinson confesses he finds it difficult to say something new about his club captain . |
| 4 | IT seems like only yesterday that Nigel Worthington set off from Ballymena to Notts County with the Ulster Young Player of the Year trophy and a Bass Irish Cup winners medal in his suitcase . |
| 5 | Was it perhaps partly that Mr Mandela , did she get the feeling , was pulling strings , leading the government along ? |
| 6 | It was n't until much later that Sidney E. Berger , curator of manuscripts at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester , Massachusetts , explained to me that the word had made its début in the Tarzan movies . |
| 7 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 8 | This is the clearest evidence so far that Mr Gorbachev is willing to change his government 's plans in order to share authority with the federation council — the first step towards wider talks . |
| 9 | Pitch and enveloping , it still manages to thunder along now that Dean Garcia has binned a large chunk of the previously dominant rhythmic backing tracks , thanks to drummer Monti , whose role in the group was always criminally hidden before . |
| 10 | However , it is only now that Richard Thompson has uncovered what appears to be the engram for a specific memory . |
| 11 | It is not long ago that Mr Milken was being lionised as the greatest revitaliser of American business since J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 12 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 13 | It was only then that George Shultz , Reagan 's secretary of state , learned the president had actually signed an order authorising the arms shipments on 17 January and that he had not been consulted or told . |
| 14 | He rushed towards her so violently that Miss Fogerty put out her hands to grasp his shoulders before he should butt her to the ground . |
| 15 | The Irish view the situation so seriously that Ruari Quinn , employment and enterprise minister , flew to Boston yesterday to meet Digital 's president and chief executive , Robert Palmer , in a last-ditch attempt to rescue the Galway plant . |
| 16 | ‘ It is only recently that Robert Gordon 's University has opened up the field for people to do courses like this without having to leave home for long periods . ’ |
| 17 | It 's not just that Fleet Street is n't where it was . |
| 18 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 19 | Mr in his statement C thirty three , had said quote , although he wished to care for Anna Jane as long as possible , I have already begun to have problems with my back therefore we intend to introduce the use of carers gradually so that Anna Jane gets used to them . |
| 20 | He dialled the Athene office again , and was told once more that Alexandra Maitland was not available . |
| 21 | In this case , it would be hard to find language indicating more clearly that Mr Clayton intended the land to be preserved and managed as playing fields for all time , or at least for as long as the law permitted . |
| 22 | As John Coffin had listened to Jordan 's voice , he had a clear picture of the scene being summoned up so that Phil Jordan must be more of an actor than he had supposed . |
| 23 | Let's admit straight away that Robin Blackburn has a point ( Letters , 3 April ) . |
| 24 | It was also then that Mr Kinnock showed the part of his personality he tries so hard to contain , whipping up the audience like a second-rate holiday camp entertainer . |
| 25 | But they could not be sure of winning and they know perfectly well that Mr Mitterrand has no reason to dissolve parliament so long as there is even a small risk that his party might lose . |
| 26 | It was a considerable risk ; he knew perfectly well that Graham Moloney would certainly disagree with him with some violence . |
| 27 | Just as well that Neil Mallender is having an impressive season and that the towering Dutchman ( yes , another ! ) |
| 28 | Mrs Davis pointed out tartly that Mrs Stych was not at present serving on any of their other subcommittees , and that she must do something to help . |
| 29 | It is splendid news that Mr Smith is able to renounce socialism and even better that Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and even wee Nigel Griffiths are going to pursue the ugly connections between Tory plutocrats and regulations that block the free market . |
| 30 | IT was said here yesterday that Vic Reeves , the Darlington alternative comedian ( that is somebody who does n't make you laugh which is alternative to a comedian ) was the sole North-East recipient of a gong at the BAFTA awards the other night . |