Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream .
32 They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden .
33 The reason for this is that the number of tucks within the work distorts the knit stitches in such a way that they rise up above the surface of the knitting , forming a very three-dimensional effect .
34 Alternative schemes involve giving individuals vouchers , to be used as payment for health care , on condition that they opt out of the NHS .
35 What is worse is that the caravans are painted white so that they stand out against the green landscape .
36 Can certain individuals be directed in such a way that they stand out from the mass because they are the tellers of the story , the chief exponents in the drama or theme ?
37 That they carry back to the crevice
38 So that they float down to the next district and you do n't have to report them ? ’
39 Flowers visited by passerines are twisted such that they face back to the peduncle , on which the perching bird stands : hummingbird flowers differ in being tubular and sticking outwards making them readily accessible to hovering birds .
40 These are lectures that are pitched directly at their level erm with the knowledge that they have round about the third year in schools , so that they can see some of the problems that physics tackles .
41 Allow your children to see your own grief so that they grow up with the idea that it is a natural reaction to an unhappy situation .
42 According to a report in the Independent of Sept. 17 Dharsono 's release was " a gesture of appeasement " by Suharto to groups within the military which had demanded that he step down at the end of his fifth term .
43 He had several phone calls from Japan to deal with , and a request from a Bombay-based Hindu businessman that he fly out in the next few weeks to — as Mr Kapoor put it — ‘ spring clean ’ his collection of modern primitives .
44 I guess it 's probably just that he glide up to the second part of the diphthong , has been displaced so you 've just got the first part of it left ,
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