Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] that " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The advantages of attending a unit of this kind or somewhere that gives similar solidarity and guidance has been shown in a study of schoolgirl mothers . |
| 2 | I says Richard would you not even go on to the tech and , or somewhere that you could get better on your drawing and he , he |
| 3 | As Griffiths LJ explained in Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans " I believe that the so-called iniquity rule evolved because in most cases where the facts justified a publication in breach of confidence the plaintiff had behaved so disgracefully or criminally that it was judged in the public interest that his behaviour should be exposed " and , as he aptly stated , " there is a world of difference between what is in the public interest and what is of interest to the public " . |
| 4 | It did n't pay to let a woman know you cared , or rather that your body did . |
| 5 | She wanted to , she really did , but she needed to be made to feel she could , or rather that she could n't not , that it was out of her hands , that she could n't help herself . |
| 6 | The usual jibe was that Crowninshield was a politician without a cause , or rather that he would support any cause so long as it was fashionable , but his critics also attacked Crowninshield for being wealthy , claiming that his eminence was solely due to the vast amounts of money that he spent on his campaigns . |
| 7 | In the work of Gagnon and Simon , it seems to be suggested that nothing is intrinsically sexual , or rather that anything can be sexualised ( though what creates the notion of ‘ sexuality ’ itself is never answered ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 9 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 10 | ‘ He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff 's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major , or the act of God ; but as nothing of this sort exists here , it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient . |
| 11 | Either that , or perhaps that she had n't asked very many pointed questions . |
| 12 | Similarly , when Mill tries to explain how we can decide which is qualitatively the better of two pleasures , his actual answer is more or less that the higher pleasure is the one which is actually more liked by those in a position to compare them . |
| 13 | Aye more or less that that 's right . |
| 14 | but you got ta do two hundred words or less that you wan na be when you 're older . |
| 15 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 16 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
| 17 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 18 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 19 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 20 | It 's always wrong to want a special friendship with someone just so that you feel better about yourself or so that others are impressed . |
| 21 | However , any feasible integer solution must satisfy or so that if we create two new ILPs |
| 22 | Or you might realise that you want extra money , say , in order to have more free time , or so that you can help a charity , or so that you can travel abroad . |
| 23 | Or you might realise that you want extra money , say , in order to have more free time , or so that you can help a charity , or so that you can travel abroad . |
| 24 | Check every 20 minutes or so that the water has not boiled away and , if so , replenish with boiling water . |
| 25 | It 's to do with having a balanced overview of your strengths and weaknesses and not using these to the detriment of others or so that others are able to exploit you . |
| 26 | Holyfield came under such prolonged assault in the first minute or so that the crowd were reduced to a state of suspended animation , tensed for the moment when he would drop . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 28 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 29 | As I mentioned previously , there are six major plates covering the surface of this planet , and ten or so that are classified as minor ( though even minor plates can be as big as entire continents ) . |
| 30 | Precise figures are hard to come by , because many European discount chains are privately owned , but no one doubts that they are taking a growing share of the $140 billion or so that Europeans spend on food each year . |