Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of kicking the ball high so that it splashed down into a lake and bounced backwards , as Going did on that ludicrous day , the Australians and New Zealanders took advantage of the wide open spaces in sevens and kicked long , flat balls which stopped dead in the water . |
| 2 | Or , you can cover it with black plastic so that it rots down . |
| 3 | When , with colleagues in the Department of Social Administration , I interviewed members of the divorcing population , they argued passionately that divorce was too easy ( or too difficult ) ; that everything was rushed through before they had time to think ( or that it dragged on interminably ) ; and that divorce should be morally neutral ( or that there should be an inquest in which every detail of their spouse 's despicable conduct was exposed to public view ) . |
| 4 | The cloth on the table was so stiffly starched that it stuck out at the corners . |
| 5 | The avalanche was so enormous that it carried on travelling uphill on the other side of the valley . |
| 6 | The Provisional IRA has admitted that it carried out this mass murder . |
| 7 | Nye derived equations for glacier flow assuming that ice is a perfectly plastic substance , that it flows down a valley of constant slope , and that the conditions of temperature , accumulation and ablation are simple and uniform , and his model could be compared with field observations . |
| 8 | One of the central features of the company is that it separates out the functions of ownership and management . |
| 9 | like a soft telescope , that it looked up along it at the sky |
| 10 | The miners used rock drills and compressed air to drive through hard rock and the level had a hydraulic engine , worked by water from the dam at Sun Hush , which had such a head of water that it developed up to fifty horsepower and worked both the water pumps to drain the deep levels and the winding gear . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the material at the tide-line was so sloppy that it ran out of the probe and no cores were brought home . |
| 12 | Whirling her long , powerful arms , with the last of her strength , she flung the gun in a great arc , so that it sailed up , high above Doyle 's head . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the greenhouse effect is so efficient that this energy becomes trapped to the extent that it drives up the surface temperatures to the observed values . |
| 14 | There is also ‘ value-rational ’ ( wertrational ) action , where the goal is so dominant for the actor that it drives out all calculation or concern for consequences . |
| 15 | A grammatical score is assigned to each grammar tag based on the probability of the transitions that it occurs in . |
| 16 | The diluting of the industrial strategy was a classic Wilsonian operation , as Bernard Donoughue remembers : ‘ I 'm sure that Tony Benn felt himself betrayed by his Prime Minister because the moment the word got around , as it rapidly did in Whitehall — and the Cabinet Office made sure that it got around — that the Prime Minister was not giving his support to Tony Benn , then the civil servants began to back off from their minister . |
| 17 | It seemed a near miracle that it got off to a relatively smooth start , politically speaking , in 1921–2 . |
| 18 | This is the set of numbers greater than 8 , and we show that it keeps on getting bigger , by placing a row of dots after 12 . |
| 19 | Yesterday 's annual results showed that it kept up the good work in 1991 . |
| 20 | Its real blessing , of course , was that it kept down the numbers of mice and rats . |
| 21 | The RCM held aloof for the same reason that it kept out of Poland — the resources did not stretch to additional responsibilities , or so it was argued . |
| 22 | Even if the convert claims to have had a dream or religious experience , it is likely ( although perhaps not inevitable ) that it fitted in with a world-view with which he was previously acquainted ( through either the written or the spoken word ) , or else , that his experience will be interpreted by a believer in his new world-view . |
| 23 | This was toast which was held on a toasting fork and was pressed against the bars so that the bread was scorched , it was then quickly turned ninety degrees so that it finished up with a grid pattern rather like a leaded window . |
| 24 | At £34.96 , the beauty of the Garden Buggy is that it folds down to only 10in thick and will easily fit into the boot of a car . |
| 25 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 26 | Pearce encapsulates it as each generation ensuring that it passes on to the next an undiminished stock of assets , including environmental as well as man-made capital . |
| 27 | Tests show that it shoots out at only slightly less than the UK speed limit in built-up areas — namely twenty-eight miles an hour . |
| 28 | It has come down and we shall ensure that it stays down . |
| 29 | Such overly anxious and insecure horses are usually found amongst the Thoroughbred population , where speed is of such importance that it predominates over every other desirable characteristic . |
| 30 | Cramp the workpiece to the upper board and by means of a wood block ensure that it lines up with the edge of the top board . |