Example sentences of "[adv] that it would [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In keeping with the emphasis on liberalism , there was the idea that party competition should be restrained and moderate so that it would involve gradual change and only limited state intervention . |
| 2 | He envisaged this as a well-balanced wheel driven by a lead weight suspended from its axle so that it would make one revolution between sunrise and sunset . |
| 3 | The architecture of triticale was altered so that it would grow shorter ; in this way more photosynthetic effort would go into seed production rather than stems . |
| 4 | Given a little hope , a little patch of ground … so that it would taste better . |
| 5 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 6 | IRAQ boasted yesterday that it would attempt another takeover of Kuwait . |
| 7 | As you passed through the iron gates you could feel at once that it would cost real money to have your temperature checked . |