Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , see who I mean I ca n't think of anybody who 's in the reserves who could do any better than the lot that are in , in at the moment . |
| 2 | Nothing illustrates the blatant inequalities in society better than the fact that Durham County Council is having to close several old people 's homes . |
| 3 | Much better than the copy that I had made , which as I said was this miniature sideways thatched farmhouse there in the right margin . |
| 4 | This assumption is arbitrary , but no more so than the assertion that reminder treatments somehow make available information that could not otherwise be retrieved . |
| 5 | ‘ Despite a difficult trading position caused by a considerable drop in customer numbers , I am pleased to be able to tell you that the strenuous efforts of the management team , staff members of the associated Preservation Society have brought success in reducing costs to a level less than the revenue that we have earned , ’ he said . |
| 6 | But this measures the impact of the new sugar industry less than the fact that the acreage under sugar-beet in the Bohemian countryside had multiplied more than twentyfold between 1853–4 ( 4,800 hectares ) and 1872–3 ( 123,800 hectares ) . |
| 7 | But it is not a very good one , since it is available only until the moment that Titius brings suit . |
| 8 | In practice , these boundary conditions are difficult to apply , basically because the condition that M be continuous is only indirectly applied to the functions V and W , or Z , or E , that feature in the main equations . |
| 9 | However , vendors rarely find this acceptable , if only because the fact that the guarantee is then given to a third party may mean it has to be dealt with as a separate note in the balance sheet . |
| 10 | One of these areas was Russia , especially because the interest that his work had aroused there made him consider the previously unthinkable possibility of a communist revolution occurring in that country . |
| 11 | So whether the fact that they thought that she was a witch was maybe kind of half an excuse just for getting her out of the house I do n't know . |
| 12 | A prohibition notice can in practice be made only when the fact that there are dangerous goods on the market has come to the attention of the Secretary of State . |
| 13 | It 's difficult to judge the especially when the person that you for by someone just popping round and picking something up and they stay for ages , and they did n't know I was taping and then something clicked up in the middle of it . |
| 14 | No , I , I , I , just , just a cover note , I think it 's quite true that this is one of the small steps one can make to make it a little bit more possible for people with dependents to take a full part in local government , and the majority of the people who are excluded at the moment are in practise erm , women with dependent children , but there are many other people including men , and including people with dependent elderly relatives , and I think we need to make it the rule rather than the exception that local government has a carer 's allowance scheme . |
| 15 | The employee earning more than £5,000 or the director will be assessed on the benefit received by him on the basis of the cost to the employer rather than the price that would generally be charged to the public . |
| 16 | According to this approach , the object of science is , for instance , to gauge the probability of the sun rising tomorrow rather than the probability that it will always rise . |
| 17 | Moreover , it is the social situation rather than the individual that is the source of counselling problems . |
| 18 | Our ‘ Marilyn Monroe ’ schema is more likely to include fingernails than the kind you knock into walls , and our ‘ king schema ’ will contain seals for stamping wax rather than the kind that eat fish . |
| 19 | Details of the types of knives used in crimes are not generally available either , but ordinary kitchen and craft knives are believed to be the most commonly used in attacks , rather than the kind that the hon. Gentleman mentioned as being advertised . |
| 20 | In cases focusing on fitness to be detained it was the injury rather than the intoxication that was the prime reason for the call out . |
| 21 | Notice that in the third tone-unit , since it is the tonic syllable rather than the word that carries the tone , it is necessary to divide the word ‘ forest ’ into two parts , ‘ fo ’ and ‘ rest ’ ( it could be argued that the syllables should be divided ‘ for ’ and ‘ est ’ , but this is not important here ) . |
| 22 | In the UK there used to be two taxes that tax wealth per se rather than the income that is derived from wealth . |
| 23 | A few modifications have been made to it to accommodate foreign words but , generally speaking , it is the words rather than the syllabary that get modified and some get very thoroughly modified indeed . |
| 24 | It could be the sour smell of misfortune rather than the suspicion that he does n't know what he really wants which could mock the prediction that here is the next Conservative Prime Minister but one . ’ |
| 25 | Even his overseas expansion was prescribed by rational identification of opportunity rather than the quasi-imperialism that typified much of the ambition in the UK advertising agency sector . |
| 26 | Therefore , it is the very ordinariness of the RUC 's policing in Easton which is surprising and provides the greatest disjuncture with public imagery rather than the fact that it contradicts , to some extent , the formal regimen of the police manual or the bureaucratic ethos of police management . |
| 27 | Groups bonded through interests or situations rather than the fact that members happen to be over 60 may be far more suitable . |
| 28 | In a family in which ‘ asking ’ is always done by a threatening fist , and physical violence is the usual means of expressing ill-temper or frustration , the difference between welfare and ill-fare is the strength of the blow rather than the fact that it happened . |
| 29 | The " drug barons " , importing from Thailand , Pakistan , or Colombia , are seen as the real cause of increasing " hard " drug addiction in the UK , rather than the fact that they would have no market if there were no demand . |
| 30 | Also , company 1 , by focusing on decreasing margins through time , rather than the fact that it is still earning better margins than a rival , may be ‘ bearish ’ and let company 2 get established in the market too easily . |