Example sentences of "[adv] to the [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Already at the end of the Breshnev era — in the early 1980s — Russian sociologist Tatiana Zaslavskaia was saying in a report which filtered through to the West that despite its planned and ordered appearance the Soviet economy was in fact developing in a spontaneous fashion .
2 We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender .
3 The luckless eight-year-old hit the fence so close to the ground that at least a somersault was inevitable .
4 The master took the opportunity to complain further to the Board that on several occasions he had drawn the medical officer 's attention to an inmate , William Sabey , who was at times a danger to others and had attempted to stab the labour master .
5 The principle of identity in Hinduism , Tillich maintains , finds expression in the prohibition of the killing of animals , which he relates also to the belief that in order to fulfil his karma a man may find himself reincarnated in animal form .
6 This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth .
7 It all added up to the fact that below Silas 's cool exterior there was warmth and compassion for others .
8 Again , we assert it since we accept ( i ) an independent nomic conditional roughly to the effect that in the world as it is , and within certain large limits as it might be , if it is raining and certain other things are the case , then the balcony is wet , and we also accept ( ii ) that those other things are the case .
9 He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself .
10 The thirteenth century eyre records testify vividly to the fact that at that time previous or subsequent sexual intercourse with the same man was fatal to such an appeal .
11 They attributed these differences primarily to the fact that in West Germany there was an extensive system of vocational training , further in-service training , awarding of qualifications , and positioning in the hierarchy on the basis of such qualifications .
12 Churchill at once sought to exploit this potential rift among his opponents , but Attlee replied firmly to the effect that as leader of his party he was free to make commitments on its behalf .
13 The data we collected leads inescapably to the conclusion that for most of the time nothing happens at all — this seems to be particularly the case in residential settings ( ibid. , p. 58 ) .
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