Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I traded with them so that the young girls of the country would no longer shrink from me in revulsion , ’ he said , and there was a lick of sensuality in the hissing voice now . |
| 2 | Muscles developed around them so that the front ends of the rods could be moved up and down . |
| 3 | Yet the bowlers defended well , and only Richardson mastered them so that the closing overs were tense . |
| 4 | Would it at least give a categorical assurance and preferably in this House and now that the British Library will be given the opportunity to raise funds to purchase the land itself so that the future development of that library will be possible . |
| 5 | In his paper on ‘ Mourning and Melancholia ’ Freud established that in depression following the loss of a love-object the ego absorbs that object into itself so that the exaggerated self-reproaches , self-deprecation and self-hatred which typify the condition can be understood as sadistic drives which have been unconsciously directed on to the object whose ‘ shadow has fallen on the ego . ’ |
| 6 | If the magnet flux is concentrated in certain poles because of the winding excitation then the rotor tends to align itself so that the air-gap reluctance of the flux path is minimised . |
| 7 | But not all their black arts could save them now that the full strength of Ulthuan was brought to bear . |
| 8 | Glad of the diversion , I said , ‘ Someone told me today that the bad weather was caused by all the cannon-balls discharged on the Field of Waterloo last year . ’ |
| 9 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 10 | Simple arithmetic will show that if you wish the examiner to appreciate your answer you must present it to him so that the minimum time is required for reading , assessing and marking . |
| 11 | He left his cocoon of warmth , closing the folds behind him so that the damp chill of the room would not invade his secret place during his absence . |
| 12 | It was because she 'd never taken him seriously that the whole thing had come as a surprise . |
| 13 | As there is every advantage to a team cheating , I thought it right that the sporting authorities had stomped on McLaren for an avoidable mistake , and I retain that view . |
| 14 | Now it is not for me to give my opinion as to that and I do not , but I think it right that the general public should understand and be aware that this is now the law . ’ |
| 15 | Those theorists trying to repair the weak interaction should be able to fix it so that the right-handed tau neutrino is much less likely to interact with other matter than the left-handed one is , and thus stays aloof during the big bang . |
| 16 | However , previous decisions had also laid it down that the identical procedure was to be followed in both cases . |
| 17 | Being credulous in matters of sorcery , they began to put it about that the Frank doctor not only had the power of expelling demons but had dominion over them . |
| 18 | In contrast , it is not said by the third defendant or by anyone else that the third party was guilty of any form of dishonesty . |
| 19 | I think myself on that the best thing to do is to get in touch with the local chemist |
| 20 | Thus , the ‘ equation ’ is really an identity which must always be true : it tells us only that the total amount of money handed over in transactions is equal to the value of what is sold . |
| 21 | Some gentlemen dressed in grey whom I took to be equerries had organized us so that the royal party had two corridors , flanked by people , to walk down . |
| 22 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |