Example sentences of "[that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is now more than $13m , 20% over budget — this , from a bank that vigorously defends the quality of its development projects . |
| 2 | If you carefully plan a new health regime that slowly introduces slight modifications to your usual meals , perhaps to try different ways of cooking food , to have slightly larger portions of vegetables and fruit , you will eventually find that your food preferences change slightly , enough to tip the balance from an unhealthy diet ( too high in fat and sugar , too low in fibre ) , to a healthy one that will help you attain and then maintain a slim figure . |
| 3 | Then I noticed that slowly and imperceptibly the rpm was falling while all other engine indications were normal . |
| 4 | True dawn came as a dirty yellow streak in the east that slowly lost its colour as it spread into a cold grey , filled with racing clouds . |
| 5 | Then one long hum that slowly faded , became part of the silence . |
| 6 | You ca n't cycle that slowly up a hill can you ? |
| 7 | They were the cooks , washers-up , barbers , lice-pickers , deck-swabbers and general gofers at the bottom of a subtle pecking order that slowly revealed itself . |
| 8 | When he was done he unstrapped himself , then took one of the white sheets from the side and threw it over her , watching as the blood spread out from the centre of the white ; a doubled circle of redness that slowly formed into an ellipse . |
| 9 | … I mean a completely different development arising from computer logic but as unimaginable to us now as a Shakespearean character would have been to an oral-epic culture , and a different way of thinking about and rendering … all worldly phenomena , as revolutionary as the scientific spirit that slowly emerged out of the Renaissance and the Gutenberg galaxy . |
| 10 | It was a frightening book , full of strange ideas and dangerous dreams — dreams that slowly became real for Dorian . |
| 11 | The organ could not approach this strangled cry that came welling up from the bowels , from the primitive consciousness of life , of pain , of joy ; the long , tortured note that slowly unwound your intestines to be twanged by the electric guitarist . |
| 12 | Eyeing his enormous frame with amused speculation , she suddenly grinned , not even aware that slowly , little by little , she was reverting to the old Hilary . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry — I do n't mean to , ’ she said sadly , then stifled a sigh while realising that slowly and surely he was ruining what had been precious moments . |
| 14 | Wendy says that slowly but surely our name is taking hold in this wide area . |
| 15 | Of the seven or eight countries that secretly have nuclear weapons , or are close to having them , only one ( India ) started building a bomb because it was worried about one of the big five ( China ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 17 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 18 | But I think that secretly the vice-chancellor and the other grown-ups were delighted by this kind of behaviour , as it proved beyond any reasonable doubt that we were students and they were teachers . |
| 19 | Consequently , she admits , ‘ There was a part of me that secretly felt evangelism was something you should n't do to your dog , let alone a friend ’ ( Pippert 1980:16 ) . |
| 20 | Of the seven or so countries that secretly have ( in South Africa 's case , had ) nuclear weapons or are close to having them , only three are thought to have conducted a test . |
| 21 | I think that secretly I wanted to get pregnant , although I tried to kid myself I did n't . |
| 22 | There are many other good things in the production , a passionate and gripping Lady Macbeth from Clare Benedict ; witches dressed to look like maggots ; and fight scenes that presumably use the Balinese experience in becoming savage death dances . |
| 23 | The collaborative MIPS Technologies Inc T5 processor development ( CI No 2,165 ) will be aimed at applications requiring high-performance audio , video and networked workgroup computing , and will be a speculative execution superscalar processor — that presumably means that it will execute the next set of instructions that come up before it knows whether the program requires them or does a branch ; it will also include features for multiprocessing , multi-level caches and high-speed uniprocessor systems designs . |
| 24 | The T5 will be aimed at applications requiring high-performance audio , video and networked workgroup computing , and will be a speculative execution superscalar processor — that presumably means that it will execute the next set of instructions that come up before it knows whether the program requires them or does a branch ; it will also include features for multiprocessing , multi-level caches and high-speed uniprocessor systems designs . |
| 25 | A question I would ask is that given the product which you had in June and the fact that presumably you have to take what goes , presumably the fact that they do n't send you the strongest stuff erm are you surprised that the figures were down in view of the quality of what you had , or are you surprised it might not have been worse ? |
| 26 | Specific amplification results in an intense band of 450 bp , when using female DNA , together with a series of higher molecular weight products that presumably result from degenerate regions in the repeats . |
| 27 | The erm actually says that every training course should have some sort of objectives and performance and standards and and measurable objective that presumably we can then pick up in evaluation . |
| 28 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 29 | I gave the office details of Mr. Docherty 's next of kin — his mother in Hemsworth — and said that presumably any outstanding benefit should be paid to her . |
| 30 | ‘ I mean that presumably you would have been required to pay for your bed and board in the normal way without subsidy . |