Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In economic terms , this means that individual foxes that shift resources into other projects can do better than individual foxes that spend virtually all their resources on hunting technology . |
| 2 | The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy . |
| 3 | With older people , who have lived through the period when new ‘ miracle ’ allopathic drugs have appeared to offer a solution to all pain and ill-health , it is these prescribed rather than proscribed drugs that will be the main problem . |
| 4 | And although there are some MPs who think Clarke should go now to prevent any worse gaffes , it is only on past events rather than future possibilities that such decisions can be made . |
| 5 | Right okay erm so there 's the ref it 's refinement rather than radical changes that we 're talking about here really is n't it ? |
| 6 | However , it was in logged-out areas rather than primary rainforest that the fires were able to spread rapidly in Indonesia 's protracted four-month drought , which had also undermined the country 's self-sufficiency in rice , its staple food . |
| 7 | Unlike many of the other Community programmes , DELTA concentrates exclusively on technology and it does so in the knowledge that it is technology rather than social/educational concerns that will bridge the yawning gap between training needs and training provision in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 8 | With the partial exception of Didon and Les femmes , which dwell on the protagonist 's unstable emotions in the manner of a theatrical soliloquy , it is dramatic episodes rather than specific movements that are set in relief through well timed key changes , as in Campra 's stage action scenes . |
| 9 | But clearly it was imperialistic palaeontologists rather than imperialist fossils that set the pattern in both cases . |
| 10 | The £4.1 billion jump in bank-lending was month was twice the average monthly increase in 1992 , but economists warned that it reflected a rebound rather than new hope that consumers are taking on significantly bigger borrowings to fuel recovery . |
| 11 | I say simply that I support the views of my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester ( Mr. Nelson ) and of the hon. Member for Middlesbrough ( Mr. Bell ) rather than other views that have been expressed today . |
| 12 | When Darwen needed a new agent in 1911 , it was to Salvidge rather than Central Office that they turned for help in finding one . |
| 13 | Open field sites in the vicinity of London were taken over for the construction of studios in the belief that it was heaps of brick and iron rather than organizational flair that explained the success of Louis B. Mayer or Samuel Goldwyn . |
| 14 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 15 | In the longer term , it was Reformed rather than Lutheran theology that came to dominate Elizabethan Protestantism . |
| 16 | Because of the localized nature of the kingdom , and the comparative lack of great political events and activity , it was for local rather than national purposes that these bonds were made . |
| 17 | ‘ ’ Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks in Vallombrosa , ’ ’ quoted Dorothea Gilberd , going slightly pink . |
| 18 | This is the work of an exceptional artist , but he is only carrying further than usual ideas that occupy all archaic East Greek sculptors and are soon transmitted to those of other areas . |
| 19 | They use it a lot more than other words that are in the dictionary but no one 's ever heard of so they want to get usage . |
| 20 | The data which showed that only two per cent of calls came after 11 p.m. provided useful reassurance that statistically a broken night 's sleep was rare . |
| 21 | The rules are not always as simple s that , e.g. Classical Arabic has the stress on the first long syllable of the word , or on the first syllable if there are no long syllables in the word . |
| 22 | Analysis of known DNA-PK substrates suggests that one such factor is the product of the c-jun proto-oncogene , since it is phosphorylated by the DNA-PK less strongly than other factors that are believed to be multiply phosphorylated ( 9 ) . |
| 23 | Complicated paraphernalia composed of long , delicate wooden struts and gossamer silk hung from the roof , as well as various instruments that seemed astronomical or alchemical in design . |
| 24 | Each language has what we might call general preferences for certain patterns of reference as well as specific preferences that are sensitive to text type . |
| 25 | Slowly the exterior background settings for religious paintings , the major activity of artists in the seventeenth century , took on more detailed contours and established geographic as well as topographic influences that we still see in some forms of landscape painting today . |
| 26 | An excellent booklet called Making the Most of Your Heating is published by the Energy Efficiency Office , as well as other information that will help you to do a lot of insulating work yourself . |
| 27 | For instance , they created highly original relief panels to decorate the Sebasteion as well as other sculpture that adapted earlier models for different purposes . |
| 28 | As well as connecting lines that stay attached as you move objects there is also a connecting polygon with the same ability . |