Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [adv] [adv] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system 's recent flexibility is too much like that of a tent in a hurricane , and about as reassuring . |
| 2 | Thus far , the functioning of the eye is very much like that of a camera . |
| 3 | I think the subject matter of this seminar is slightly away from that and therefore we may we may find some er some er problems in that . |
| 4 | Although attempted suicide has increased among older teenagers , the rate is still well below that for adults . |
| 5 | The power of the father is not quite like that of the ‘ patriarch ’ in Filmer 's Patriarcha ( 1680 ) , yet his activities outside the home invest him with an importance which the wife does not have . |
| 6 | But his choreography is no longer like that of earlier demi-caractère styles such as that of the Chinese dance in The Nutcracker . |
| 7 | Then there 's a whole different ball game is n't there after that but er |
| 8 | Life is n't always like that for me and there are times when I do have |
| 9 | Deaths per 10 000 vehicles fell from 3.0 to 2.1 in 1990 and 1.9 in 1991 ( <50% of Smeed 's prediction ) ; the mortality is now well below that in Britain ( 2.3 in 1989 ) , which has one of the lowest rates in Europe . |
| 10 | The power relationship within a social worker/client interaction is not always of that order . |
| 11 | The effect of these personal remarks spoken in Creole is thus rather like that of the " jocular " refusals ; potentially insulting on the face of it , but in fact treated by all participants as not serious and non-threatening . |
| 12 | The texture 's right everywhere through that photograph , it 's got nice texture . |
| 13 | At their regular dinners together , a former whip recalls , ‘ the atmosphere is very much like that at a second-rate public school or a duff regiment . ’ |