Example sentences of "[adv] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sent a little prayer ceilingwards that at least there would be no dinner jackets , then ran a comb through his hair as an afterthought . |
| 2 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 3 | Owen realized suddenly that like her mistress she was old . |
| 4 | He liked marriage so much that despite all the difficulties of his first attempt , when he met you he decided to try it again . |
| 5 | The wind came so swiftly that within half an hour we were reducing sail , taking water over the deck , and beginning to lumber into a building seaway . |
| 6 | The contest , as in the first round , was dominated by personality clashes and regional rivalries , especially that between the highland capital of Quito , represented by Durán , and the major Pacific coast city of Guayaquil , with which Nebot was more closely identified . |
| 7 | Its glory is its sculpture , especially that on the triple western portal ( PLATES 55 , 56 and 57 ) . |
| 8 | The co-opératives of the Mâconnais are also good sources of Crémant de Bourgogne , especially that from Lugny , which has some delicate toasted fruit and flavours of mature Chardonnay . |
| 9 | It followed naturally that in the absence of an effective base network Soviet leaders would adopt a base denial strategy directed against the West 's military assets . |
| 10 | Whether or not those complaints were justified is another matter ; enough that at the time I felt they were . |
| 11 | We can see easily enough that in a competitive world social selection for a selfish maximization of an individual 's capacity to reproduce will result in the predominance of certain traits in a population . |
| 12 | The courts decided readily enough that in this instance the offence is one requiring proof of mens rea ; ‘ the gist of the offence to my mind lies in the intention with which the thing is done , ’ as Darling J. put it . |
| 13 | While it is clear enough that by 1519 the Household system badly needed reform , it is less clear that the Edwardian system existed only on paper . |
| 14 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 15 | As the result of lengthy investigations into the Duzme Mustafa revolt , Mehmed Sah was implicated in that affair ; and , Husameddin relates , " Molla Fenari grieved greatly that at the end of the investigations , in the year 832 , Mehmed Sah Efendi passed over the bridge of death together with Candarlizade Ibrahim Pasa and the Grand Vezir Haci Ivaz Pasa . " |
| 16 | The implication is obviously that over time the proportion of the portfolio devoted to government securities is slowly increasing . |
| 17 | Mr Clinton intoned ominously that within minutes of his speech tonight to a joint session of Congress , the ‘ special interests ’ would be out in force . |
| 18 | Entirely electronic amplifiers are arranged in banks , so that between eight and sixteen channels of EEG are transmitted to a bank of galvanometers . |
| 19 | As UK farm production rose , the economy became nearly self-sufficient in many foodstuffs and a net exporter of others so that between 1958 and 1983 the UK 's net imports of food almost halved in quantity . |
| 20 | Zambia became caught in a vicious circle because the mining industry is also heavily dependent on increasingly expensive imports , so that over time , output , investment and productivity fell . |
| 21 | Incidentally , Dubhe and Alkaid are moving across the sky in a direction opposite to that of the remaining five stars , so that over a sufficiently long period the Plough will lose its familiar shape . |
| 22 | Gradual decreases in pH with time lead to prolonged acidity which interferes with fish reproduction and spawning , so that over time there is a decrease in fish population and a shift to a smaller number of more tolerant older and larger fish . |
| 23 | These were men unmarked by battle who screamed indistinguishable news as they rode , so that over the river and through the trees you could glimpse the turning masks of grinning enemy faces , while on this side of the river the King put up his hand and Tuathal and his men came to a halt . |
| 24 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 25 | The old process of commuting death sentences also remained in effect , and the result of these arrangements was that about half of all eighteenth-century felons were transported , so that about 30,000 were sent to North America in the next 60 years . |
| 26 | First , there has been a large increase in owner-occupation so that about three-quarters of farmland is now farmed by its owners ( see figure 7.4 ) . |
| 27 | With care , about 12 harmonics may be obtained so that about an order of magnitude of frequency range is available . |
| 28 | The scents are possibly modified to pheromones in mating , for bees carrying scent apparently attract other males , so that about five display together whereupon the female chooses her mate . |
| 29 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 30 | So that into the turn of the year , I ca n't be any more precise er than that , certainly we would hope to be seeing er the wood er from the trees . |