Example sentences of "[conj] that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small wonder that people were star-struck by this ‘ deeply anti-democratic mind ’ ; or that even the most serious commentators , like William Safire , could not resist having cracks at the screenplay |
| 2 | Some expressed the fear that she would be humiliated if she carried on , or that even if she won she would be leading a demoralised party . |
| 3 | The belief is not in part what is certainly different , that even if x occurred , if f had not occurred , s would not have — or that even if x had occurred , if s occurred , so did f . |
| 4 | The figures on schooling and educational background are particularly revealing , not just because they disclose that roughly 90 per cent of the country 's judges received a public school education , or that over three quarters had attended either Oxford or Cambridge universities , but because they also confirm that this social profile has remained virtually unaltered over the last four decades or more . |
| 5 | He was sitting beside me in the jump seat or that generally occupied by a second pilot because in those days there were no flight engineers on twin-engined aircraft . |
| 6 | The chart may also help parents recognize that the problem is not as bad as they thought or that finally they can demonstrate the seriousness of the problem . |
| 7 | Either , that time was substantially different in those days , let us say that a minute then , would be equivalent to an hour and a half now ; or that somehow Shakespeare had ‘ time on his side ’ . |
| 8 | Nor , for example , will it follow without being made explicit that only the majority whose decision is sufficient to exercise the power need be the signatories to any expulsion notice or that more than one partner can be expelled at the same time by the same notice . |
| 9 | Thus , we can move far beyond purely descriptive statements recording that this or that apparently arbitrary subclass of adjectives is ungrammatical in this or that position ; it is possible , even at levels of such fine detail as in the grammaticality of ( 60 ) beside ( 59 ) , to find principled explanations for the patterns of grammaticality , based ultimately on the intensional distinction between qualification and assignment . |
| 10 | However , it should not be thought that a methodology can be devised to raise ali implicit themes to the level of explicitness , or that only the explicit aspects have attitudinal reality . |
| 11 | And informed Ulster security sources say there is no evidence that the fatal shots have been fired by a specially trained marksman or mercenary brought in by the IRA or that only one or two men has carried out all the attacks . |
| 12 | person is beneficially entitled to an interest in possession i them or that only such persons can benefit under the settlement . |
| 13 | Acting on this principle judges have occasionally corrected a statute that foolishly said ‘ and ’ when it meant ‘ or , ’ or that foolishly said ‘ or ’ when it meant ‘ and . ’ |
| 14 | It would be folly to pretend that at least part of me does n't love independence or that very independent women make the most adaptable of wives . |
| 15 | It is pointless to deny that a dictatorship can rest on popular support , or that under certain circumstances a majority of the people can be persuaded to support or endorse illiberal and anti-democratic policies . |
| 16 | The risks , as always , are of two kinds : that too much credit is created and inflation results ; or that too little credit is created and deflation results . |
| 17 | Any publicity suggesting that Woolwich might be in difficulty in meeting its financial obligations , or that alone amongst building societies it was pursuing a policy of confrontation with the revenue , might have damaging effects far outweighing Woolwich 's prospects of success on the issue of principle . |
| 18 | Any publicity suggesting that Woolwich might be in difficulty in meeting its financial obligations , or that alone amongst building societies it was pursuing a policy of confrontation with the revenue , might have damaging effects far outweighing Woolwich 's prospects of success on the issue of principle . |
| 19 | Given the lack of development in many rural areas it is not surprising that the dependency of rural workers on agriculture for employment has remained , nor that so many school-leavers take a job on the land even though they have no intention of remaining there if the choice to leave should present itself . |
| 20 | Except that not quite everything was back to normal . |
| 21 | All types of medicines reputed to be the equal of branded goods except that generally they were just a load of rubbish . |
| 22 | He was being totally homosexual too , except that even that was a pose , a ruse , a way of self-presentation . |
| 23 | The most amazing thing about the turkey — except that even curry powder can not improve the taste of its meat — is the bird 's awesome stupidity . |
| 24 | Except that even with costume and make-up the star had looked less like a pirate than Nathan Bryce did at this moment . |
| 25 | The Angel of Death was closer now , shadowed in the half-light from the church , the two marble attendants on guard at the mausoleum 's bronze doors , everything as usual except that tonight , I could have sworn that there was a third figure and that it moved out of the darkness towards me . |
| 26 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 27 | She seemed the same as ever as she closed in on him with that unfortunate overbearing manner , except that today there was an almost wild look about her as she burst out , ‘ I felt I had to come , Freddie . |
| 28 | And speaking of Australia , one of the strangest films in the LFF has come from there : Malpractice , made by Bill Bennett , and echoing the semi-documentary style and probing of official attitudes of his earlier A Street To Die , except that here the recounting of a medical accident is fictitious . |
| 29 | Except that here the foliage is more determined . |
| 30 | This was probably very similar in the heterostracans except that here the tail lobe was scale covered , perhaps with some special scale rows aligned along the length of fin ( see above ) . |