Example sentences of "[adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | More generally , the link between the last three sections of this book is Tolkien 's perception , from Pearl and from poems like it , that poetry does not reduce to plain sense ( so far most critics would agree with him ) , but furthermore that this is because words have over the centuries acquired meanings not easily traced in dictionaries , available however to many native speakers , and ( this is where many critics part company ) at times breaking through the immediate intentions of even poetic users . |
| 32 | The combination of horncall and cockcrow means , if one listens , that he who fears for his life shall lose it , but that dying undaunted is no defeat ; furthermore that this was true before the Christian myth that came to explain why . |
| 33 | Furthermore that while the history or literature of the past is re-read — and the impression given that the position of women is better than one might have expected — the more fundamental questions which need to be asked are not tackled . |
| 34 | To understand what is happening here , we have to know that Ulster vernaculars have palatalization of initial [ k ] in certain prevocalic positions ( as in [ kjat , kja:r ] ‘ cat , car ’ ) , and furthermore that this is recessive in inner-city Belfast . |
| 35 | Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held that he had erred in English domestic law , because he had misunderstood the Hoffmann-La Roche case as extending to local authorities a privilege which belonged to the Crown alone ; and furthermore that he had erred in Community law because , since it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of provisions of Community law , it was necessary to require an undertaking in damages to protect any current right which Wickes might have , by virtue of article 30 , to open their doors for Sunday trading . |
| 36 | He stated furthermore that ‘ the Soviet Union supports the aspirations of the Afro-Asian countries to peace and neutrality and views neutrality in its modern interpretation and in practical policy as an important factor of peace and international security ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 37 | Here , as in the comparable case of the beginnings of hunting , no traumatic consequences have previously been suspected ; but it is my view that the transition to cultivation from hunting and gathering was indeed traumatic , both socially and psychologically , and furthermore that the complex details of this secondary trauma , while recapitulating many elements of the first , also anticipated many later ones , including that at the root of our modern malaise . |
| 38 | Bolinger points out furthermore that the use of the to infinitive after verbs of perception when they shift to the inferential sense fits into an overall pattern with the object + infinitive construction . |
| 39 | Somebody calculated that if the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of protein molecules a metre thick , right over the whole surface of the earth erm each one , each protein different from every other one , and let us suppose furthermore that each of these proteins had been changing once as second , uniquely , into some different kind ever since the formation of the earth , we would still have tried out only quite a small fraction of the available possible proteins a hundred amino acids long . |
| 40 | As soon as the Bundesbank announced at 2pm that its discount rate would go up to 6 per cent and its Lombard emergency funding rate to 8 per cent , the Bank of England pushed up the base lending rate of British banks to 15 per cent , the highest for eight years . |
| 41 | As we straighten our tie and suck on a Cloret , we reflect gloomily that the Mail on Sunday categorized Denice 's former dates as ‘ rich , famous and suntanned ’ and we try to hope that perhaps she feels like a change . |
| 42 | Charles said gloomily that he 'd drink to that . |
| 43 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 44 | Noting the lack of creases , the air of calm efficiency , the brisk , high-pitched voice , Daisy thought gloomily that Sukey could n't be more different from her . |
| 45 | Nigel remarked gloomily that he did n't suppose it would make the programmes any better , but in a way it did . |
| 46 | When I did emerge to eat , he remarked gloomily that he 'd managed to stick them to the bottom of the pan . |
| 47 | He noted gloomily that when he dined with the King in May the Simpsons were both present , and that when another semi-political dinner party was given in July Mrs Simpson was announced in the Court Circular as being present alone without her husband . |
| 48 | They could light no fire , and Ratagan prophesied gloomily that their camp that night would be cheerless . |
| 49 | It was clearly intended as a question about her personal life , and , after a short hesitation , she decided that he had the right to an answer , if she really was going to take the job — and she now suspected gloomily that she was . |
| 50 | He realized gloomily that individually , Western people suffer from debt just as Third World people do . |
| 51 | Better that Aretha Franklin had not been born than that we should endure a drop more of this acid rain of spittle ! |
| 52 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 53 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 54 | Better that it 's used to revamp the old chestnut about ‘ how many electricians does it take to change a lightbulb ? ’ in the form of ‘ how many reissues does it take to relaunch a band 's career ? ’ |
| 55 | Better that soldiers or policemen or civilians be murdered and maimed in that corner of the United Kingdom and millions of pounds of property be destroyed than that votes be lost in mainland constituencies . |
| 56 | ‘ Better that we establish priorities of rank from the start . ’ |
| 57 | Far better that its messengers take it only to plants of exactly the same kind where the genes it carries will unite with eggs and form seeds . |
| 58 | It flagged up certain erm items for concern , better that we know than not , not know them . |
| 59 | Much better that the simpler jobs be handled by word processors with intelligent formatting systems while leaving the complex work to those trained to handle it . |
| 60 | Merely supplying their populations with food and money does not remove the true nature of the problem — far better that the conditions be changed by giving opportunity to the inhabitants to provide for themselves , because when the money of the charity runs out , the unsolved problems and starvation return . |