Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've heard since that people can do silly things then . |
| 2 | Mr Jones read somewhere that children who hit their parents are looking for love and attention . |
| 3 | The organization of competitive pupil participation thus avoids excesses of boredom and inattention especially where false questioning trails can be set in the early stages and the ‘ answer ’ or ‘ point ’ of the lesson delayed so that pupils have to work hard to discover it . |
| 4 | Such flexibility allows users to see only that part of the data model that interests them and avoid an otherwise over-complicated view of the model , and supports other requirements such as privacy and security . |
| 5 | The statute laid down that measures ‘ for the estate of the king and his heirs and for the estate of the realm and people should be granted only by the king in parliament , the implication being no doubt that such measures should not be forced upon the king by his subjects or drawn up by non-parliamentary assemblies . |
| 6 | It also laid down that Belau 's laws and any communications or relations with other countries , organizations or US agencies should be subject to approval by the US Department of the Interior . |
| 7 | A four-point agreement laid down that borders could be changed only by democratic and legal procedures , and that the democratically expressed will of nations and republics to self-determination including secession and association should be respected . |
| 8 | The Companies Act should be amended so that directors ' service contracts do not exceed three years without shareholders ' approval . |
| 9 | Later the law was amended so that profits from such activities could be confiscated . |
| 10 | The rule had been amended so that nominations for the Committee were restricted to full male or female members of five years standing , and where ladies are concerned , were not to exceed in number the direct ratio to the numerical strength of their respective section . |
| 11 | A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore . |
| 12 | ‘ We feel the case for the Albion is unanswerable … does the Government think that if Leyland-DAF goes down that Britain will suddenly stop needing buses , trucks and vans ? |
| 13 | He asked only that Lionel might accompany them on the trip . |
| 14 | The law was not formulated so that men and women could exchange favours promiscuously , but rather that a woman , being unable to decide upon a marriage offered to her , might select for herself without prior commitment from the men available and willing to accept her . ’ |
| 15 | As the camera descends , processing is completed so that onlookers can see themselves from on high within minutes of launch . |
| 16 | At the very minimum they must have been made on the basis of a police guarantee that matters would be manipulated so that courts would not impose additional punishment for the illusory offences . |
| 17 | Better support for carers is an essential ingredient of good community care and we want to ensure that practical examples of how this can be achieved are well publicised so that others can emulate them . |
| 18 | The Council indicated a few limited examples of such circumstances ( e.g. to the newly baptized in a Mass following their baptism ) , but here again , once admitted , the essential rightness of Communion under both kinds became more and more widely recognized so that communion is now so given at all Masses in many churches and dioceses throughout the world . |
| 19 | He liked Mrs. Blick one of the old school , always addressed by name , a caring sort Good Morning Mrs B. Over the years their relationship has developed so that Art now called her Mrs B. He had once served at a library committee but that was when her husband was alive many years ago . |
| 20 | • Complex computer-based games have been developed so that scores for manipulative skill , decision-taking , vigilance , etc. can all be calculated as the game proceeds . |
| 21 | Parenting skills often need to be taught so that parents accurately recognize and understand their child 's behaviour and reactions ( Lieberman and Birch 1985 ) . |
| 22 | All shelters had to be altered so that queues faced the trams , new signs were erected and the traditional round stop-signs disappeared . |
| 23 | Mrs Seale , long departed after her disgrace over losing Dinah years back , had been replaced by a dresser who was less vigilant , and the Chinese puzzle of the dressing-rooms had , in the days of the departed Mrs Asshe , been altered so that admirers could come and go . |
| 24 | A number of people would have their wages reviewed immediately , and the wage structure would be altered so that people on the lowest wages would get proportionately higher increases . |
| 25 | Such a list may quite simply be typed out on sheets of paper and duplicated so that additions and changes may be made until the list has to be retyped for clarity 's sake . |
| 26 | Rain had to be guarded so that people around her did not follow what the call was about . |
| 27 | Now that the full complement of introns in the ancestral triose phosphate isomerase gene has been mapped , he has been able to show that they are placed so that amino acids near each other in the protein 's structure are encoded wherever possible by the same exon , bolstering the idea that the original form of the gene contained a full complement of introns and was produced by exon shuffling . |
| 28 | The hierarchy is arranged so that groups of strong and weak elements at the lowest level themselves form strong or weak elements at the next level up and so on throughout the hierarchy , somewhat in the manner of the hierarchical structure of syntax . |
| 29 | One who saw both camps preparing for the talks says : ‘ It was all arranged so that Diana could stay more or less on her terms . |
| 30 | Between meals snacks were forbidden , and the dining room table was arranged so that Suzy 's parents were not directly looking at her . |