Example sentences of "that [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Dr Gilvear 's study found that most often the breaches in the embankments occurred where they overlaid old channels and were vulnerable to erosion .
2 Table 2.4 shows that only around a dozen cases are mentioned in more than four of the sixteen newspapers in the study .
3 European Community officials have admitted that only around a third of the funds allocated in 1991 and 1992 to help Easter European countries to improve safety at their nuclear power plants has actually been spent .
4 In addition it was suggested that only about a quarter of the earlier sample of women had used birth control methods other than withdrawal compared with 57 per cent of the latter group .
5 Questionnaires sent out as part of the HSC employment department 's 1990 labour force survey showed that only about a third of reportable accidents appear in official statistics , that 2 million people have illnesses they believe are caused or made worse by work , and that work related accidents and ill health are probably resulting in about 30m days off work a year in the UK .
6 In practice , not all fires were used at the peak , but even at the higher real prewar price levels , research had shown that only about a third of the costs imposed by the peak space heating demand were being recovered in contemporary domestic tariffs .
7 Calvin Hall 's large survey of dream content showed that only about a third of the total number of dreams reported contained references to colour .
8 They both were astonished that so far no indication of trouble had come from the town common ; but reckoned that it would not be long now before it did , for a few escapers from the castle had been glimpsed running in that direction .
9 What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority .
10 Heat from stronger lighting could be a problem , but it seems that so far the normal air conditioning has been able to cope and no abnormal discomfort has been experienced .
11 Before moving on to make use of the database , it was necessary to assess whether or not the data itself was valid for the organisation being studied , bearing in mind that so far the exercise had been a systems-thinking one , rather than a study of what was happening in practice .
12 The main problem is that so far the central battle seems unevenly pitched .
13 We can conclude that so far the law 's quest to subject the power conferred on corporate managers to controls to prevent it from being exercised arbitrarily has not been successful .
14 Large volume users , like British Steel and ICI , have complained that so far the market mechanism has not proved effective
15 Her only regret was that Dr Neil did not buy the Clarion Cry so that so far the only piece of her work which she had seen in print was the one which she had written before she had arrived in the East End .
16 Douglas Scott , the region 's senior corporate advisor , said that so far the council has concentrated on upping the region 's profile in Brussels and honing its statistical case .
17 What makes the sex distribution of these cats so odd is that normally only a female kitten can display black patches inherited from one parent and red tabby patches inherited from the other .
18 Erm I think just I 've answered that just probably the way you put it .
19 Is the Prime Minister aware that just over an hour ago I received a letter from British Alcan , which has a factory in my constituency at Falkirk , informing me that 169 of the work force will lose their jobs , not because they are inefficient but because the machinery on which they work is 50 years old ?
20 If you have tried Bolo 's Adventures part 1 and you are thinking that just maybe the author has run out of difficult problems to set for you , well think again .
21 A recent divorce petition cited the fact that just about every wall , fitment and piece of furniture in the home was in a half-dismantled or half-done state and had been for years .
22 Yet it took a script that just about every major actress in Hollywood turned down to make her a star .
23 If we now turn our attention to the hero-literature of ancient Greece , it is notable that just about every prominent hero does battle at one time or another , and sometimes repeatedly , with Amazon women .
24 It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company .
25 It was the Collector 's hope that thus even a few men would be able to keep up a heavy fire .
26 ‘ Instead it can , for example , be based on the argument that any particular agent 's capacity to absorb information is finite , and that broadly therefore the smaller the unit to be controlled the greater the likelihood of competence sufficient to make the necessary judgement .
27 There is the fact that more recently the unit has promulgated stark rules including a drastic sanction in the event of breach .
28 No I find that usually quite a mixed crowd goes to it .
29 Clare has always had rather more in the way of aristocratic pretensions than Andy , who has that aura of classless broth-of-a-boyhood that usually only the congenitally rich can carry off convincingly .
30 ‘ Ca n't you leave us alone now ? ’ he pleaded and Wexford felt impotently that once again the man was enclosing himself within the unimpregnable defence of grief .
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