Example sentences of "[adv] that it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | The second is to increase the establishment of HMI so that it employs thousands of people , but I do not believe that a centralised civil service approach is desirable . |
2 | It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block . |
3 | Not big at all , just comfortable , so that it sleeps two or three . |
4 | Interlaced displays scan alternate lines , so that it takes two complete passes to display every line on-screen . |
5 | The bottom ram is part of the spine assembly , so that it creates two ‘ nostrils ’ beneath the top ram . |
6 | It is not my intention to discuss medical politics , but as it turned out this was not an unhappy solution , notwithstanding that it married two firmly conflicting beliefs which have continued to operate , sometimes rather awkwardly , side by side , and may do so for many years . |
7 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
8 | For once , I thought before speaking , and so was able to refrain from remarking tritely that it took two to make a marriage . |
9 | Suppose now that it lends 90 per cent of that deposit in sterling to a UK resident who spends it in such a way that it is redeposited with the UK bank ; also that the remaining 10 per cent is held by the overseas bank as an interest-bearing sterling deposit with the UK bank . |
10 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
11 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |