Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [that] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Psychometrically the problem is to develop appropriate descriptive taxonomies so that a person 's actual or potential contribution to an organisation is succinctly expressible .
2 A hatch in the floor-plates before him irised open , revealing a shaft ; up from which rose a steel framework suspending within it a transparent clingtight one-piece tunic elegantly embroidered with fine silvery wires so that an exposed human nervous system seemed to be hanging there , a semicollapsed anatomy of nerves .
3 Lemon verbena needs protection in most parts of cool temperate climates so that the winter temperature does not fall below 4°C ( 40°F ) .
4 The purpose of these ports was to spread out American naval forces so that a sneak attack could not cripple the fleet , although others suggested that their intent was actually to spread the pork as widely as possible .
5 The people who make crackers on a Monday morning , we have moved to the other three days so that the Monday morning is free for the sewing .
6 In this form he would hover over the battlefield , dipping down to engulf enemy troopers , to consume those like fat in a furnace so that their smoke would rise up as incense into Dorn 's amber nostrils and by way of that conduit across time and space — beyond mortality itself — into the God-Emperor 's seared olfactory lobes so that the Divine Person would pause for a microsecond in his eternal scrutiny of the cosmos from his golden throne and would exclaim inwardly , ‘ What sweet fragrance is that ?
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