Example sentences of "that [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pursuit of the alternatives can be inhibited by the view that little if anything can be achieved within present resource limits . |
| 2 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 3 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 4 | Some rather nice experiments were carried out , perhaps in the Forties and Fifties , by Uray and Miller , who thought that the early atmosphere mainly contained methane , water and ammonia , mainly hydrogenated species which were thermodynamically stable , and they thought that perhaps if one put a discharge or if volcanic processes could actually inject energy into such a system and form the more complicated and more energetic molecules required for biology to actually get started . |
| 5 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 6 | I have nothing against the monarchy , in principle , erm I think that perhaps if we had our own parliament in Scotland and had the Queen as a head of state , as do Australia , Canada , and all the commonwealth countries , that would be fine . |
| 7 | Explaining this they went on to say that perhaps if they did not have to put up with Keith 's trying behaviour every day until evening they might have fewer rows . |
| 8 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 9 | as I said earlier erm I suggested to them that perhaps as they went out so much perhaps one the company would do it , they sounded quite enthusiastic |
| 10 | So what 's the average b cost per box gon na be ? five X plus two Y you better write that down before our brains refuse to accept any more information . |
| 11 | Place believed that only since his youth in the 1780s had London 's artisans begun to improve into a more " respectable " class . |
| 12 | [ … ] It is perhaps no coincidence that only when one is prepared to recognize that the firm is based on authority do issues of power come to the fore in the theory of the firm . |
| 13 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 14 | Yet it was abundantly clear that only when she was away from the influence of the house was she able to return to some semblance of normality . |
| 15 | The principle is fixed that a scholar aspiring to high office must first teach at a graded series of medreses , one after the other , and that only when he reaches a certain grade does he become eligible for the great offices of the learned hierarchy , the mevleviyets , which are in their turn graded . |
| 16 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 17 | On the other hand , people whose words are not answered may have to spend a lifetime screaming for what they want or need , convinced that only if they demand loudly , cajole , beg , bully or threaten , will they obtain what they want . |
| 18 | Similarly when told that only if he returned all his tournament winnings would he get to heaven William replied in exasperation that it was impossible . |
| 19 | Doubt can play a very useful role in resisting credulity and naivety , but to argue that only if you doubt can you arrive at the truth ( a position of scepticism ) is to disregard the question of what is to be known . |
| 20 | On Dec. 15 , 1989 , Heng Samrin as the KPRP central committee general secretary warned that " [ Cambodia ] must have a unanimous understanding that only if our internal situation is firm and our superior position on the battlefield is firm , will our diplomatic struggle be effective " . |
| 21 | Yeah my hair was that long when I had it cut . |
| 22 | ‘ They got the other women to call me that so that they would n't like me . |
| 23 | They did all that so that we would have better opportunities , and they expected us to grab them when they came along . |
| 24 | that i when the child comes to you to si , you sign to show they 're with you now , perhaps Cath could amend that so that you have it you 've actually got the week but five slots for homework |
| 25 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 26 | One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe : |
| 27 | I suppose what I did there was put them on the spot so how could I word that so that it does n't put people on the defensive so much ? |
| 28 | Mr Mayor on on a point of order Mr Mayor er standing order sixty two refers explicitly to community charge or the poll tax , I think that before we move into this debate we should amend that so that it does refer to the council tax which is what we will be debating . |
| 29 | On the other hand , that model might be saying that so that she does n't have the envy of thousands of women heaped on her head ! |
| 30 | I hope that the Bill will change that so that there are fewer of the type of engineers described by my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) and more progressive traffic engineers . |