Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two modes fight it out in Schlesinger 's Billy Liar , where the hero escapes from the constraints of life in an undertaking business by fantasizing himself as variously a soldier , Winston Churchill , a gunman mowing down his family or an aristocrat living with obliging parents whose behaviour is strikingly different from that of the real screeching proletarians . |
| 2 | ( ii ) Suppose that my private visual experience is strikingly atypical in that systematically I see green where others see red . |
| 3 | The sequence of cDNA 14–6 is most similar to that of the src family of proto- ( that is , cellular ) oncogenes . |
| 4 | The King is most insistent on that . ’ |
| 5 | Even so , Merchant 's study , which also covers many other topics , provides more depth than previous empirical work on this question and is most valuable from that standpoint . |
| 6 | Er and I wish I could give you , you know , a nice clear cut , definite answer but the Sale of Goods Act is rather vague on that point . |
| 7 | It is rather good for that . |
| 8 | The situation is rather similar to that of pushing a child on a swing . |
| 9 | Unlike the simple game , which is rather predictable in that DEFECT is the only rational strategy , the iterated version offers plenty of strategic scope . |
| 10 | Millett 's picture of the authentic female self is rather different from that of Daly . |
| 11 | Tyneside maritime culture is rather different from that described for Liverpool by Lane ( 1988 ) . |
| 12 | Now the political culture of the time was such that the political system which actually emerged is rather different from that which some of the people who went to Philadelphia thought would emerge and that really reflects a number of changes , one that America has grown from four million to two hundred and fifty million , two , from being isolated , remote and scattered the population has consolidated and grown , America has become a vast industrial power as opposed to a , an agricultural nation and all these have had their impact upon the importance and scope of government . |
| 13 | In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer . |
| 14 | This oast-house conversion is rather unusual in that four kilns or ‘ roundels ’ are attached to the central storage shed , a pair being placed on both sides of this building , giving a symmetrical composition . |
| 15 | Recording with this guitar is an absolute dream and with the EQ flat on both the guitar and the mixer the sound is remarkably close to that of a miked acoustic . |
| 16 | Wordsworth 's earliest reading is remarkably similar to that of Charles Dickens ; it consisted of folk-stories and eighteenth-century novelists , works of imagination rather than of fact . |
| 17 | The pattern of distribution in these dialects is remarkably similar to that of nineteenth-century Belfast vernacular as described in Patterson , Staples and Williams . |
| 18 | In essence their behaviour is little different from that in Fancy Free . |
| 19 | The main point , however , of the section on the Germanic tribes is a discussion of the nature of feudalism , and this is little different from that found in The German Ideology . |
| 20 | Here you become just faintly aware but you start thinking mm , you know , George is old fashioned , he does n't like what 's happening around him , he 's rather conservative in that way . |
| 21 | and Gary 's rather suspicious at that price , we , we had a builder that came round he , he wanted four hundred and twenty |
| 22 | That approach is altogether different from that in Britain , where the project is designed to advise local authorities on how to deal with an accident problem . |
| 23 | The role of the Queen is vastly different from that assumed for the monarch under the Tudors ; the hereditary element in the House of Lords has plummeted in importance in the deliberations of the House over the last two and a half decades ; and the House of Commons has become , although in relatively recent times , with the extension of the franchise , a popular assembly . |
| 24 | The femininity of Woman with its emphasis on the role of wife and mother , is vastly different from that of Cosmopolitan , where the feminine woman is encouraged to be adventurous in catching the most sexually desirable man , retaining him for as long as he is interesting , and getting a super job into the bargain . |
| 25 | The media coverage available to a large franchise operation is vastly different from that available to a small restaurant or hotel . |
| 26 | This stated that : " Any notion that the economy of the countryside is fundamentally different to that in towns is now wide of the mark . |
| 27 | The HE system of tense/aspect ( like the JC one ) is fundamentally different from that of SE . |
| 28 | Like so many good mountains , it 's only close up that is scale becomes obvious . |
| 29 | I think it 's only pragmatic in that it 's maintaining production levels . |
| 30 | There 's less fun in that than the Ideal Home mail order offer to pamper your bottom , at least if you 're a cyclist . |