Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR — With the introduction of independent taxation we thought it best to share our investment income equally so that both of us would be entitled to the full allowances . |
| 2 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 3 | Paige felt the shooting pleasure so keenly that her hand clutched frantically at his hair . |
| 4 | Ever since my mother had explained to me at Culloden Moor long ago that the English and the Scots were different peoples , I had been intensely proud of my Scottish origins and of Scotland 's history as an independent nation . |
| 5 | He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike . |
| 6 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 7 | parish council meeting early so that we get a committee meeting . |
| 8 | I do not care about information being able to reach my home VDU so fast that the Encyclopaedia Britannica can get there in five seconds . |
| 9 | He slid his rifle through the thick grass , then pushed his tricorne hat back so that its peak would not catch on the weapon 's doghead . |
| 10 | She would have left the door open and the landing light on so that she was clearly visible from the stairs . |
| 11 | A settlement for this provision would include a transfer of assets to an infant child absolutely so that any income which arises from that property transferred will be treated as the settlor 's . |
| 12 | Visiting his brethren in Southern Rhodesia he attacked apartheid in a sermon in Salisbury Cathedral so directly that he was deported and declared an ‘ undesirable visitor ’ by the UDI regime . |
| 13 | She may even be persuaded to come back with me , to stay a week or longer , Dorothea decided , for she had no reason to live in that ugly little town house alone now that her father was dead . |
| 14 | As you throw the punch , swing your back foot around so that the big-toe edge of the foot strikes the inside of the opponent 's leading ankle in a scooping action which knocks it outwards . |
| 15 | The theme and each variation are extremely brief , only eleven bars , and each finishes so quickly and changes mood so rapidly that at a first hearing one can not possibly grasp the course of events . |
| 16 | She was gripping the tiller arm so tightly that the blood had been driven out of her knuckles . |
| 17 | The third one up here , the small one , is a little bit sort of lost because it 's against er , this sort of cavity light here so that one tends to get a little bit lost . |
| 18 | The head had gone to great lengths to buy his own school rather than work in the state sector precisely so that he could be king-pin with nobody telling him what to do . |
| 19 | He pulled the drawer right out so that it was on his knee . |
| 20 | Supporters of the legislation point out however that the number of car accident deaths is continuing to decline , even though the proportion of small cars on America 's roads is increasing . |
| 21 | She walked from the herb garden so rapidly that Meryl was unable to utter another word . |
| 22 | Twisting your wrists forwards , turn your hands upside down so that your palms face upwards and your thumbs point away from you . |
| 23 | That is the equivalent of weighing a fully-laden oil supertanker so accurately that a contraband bottle of whisky in the captain 's cabin would register on the scales . |
| 24 | I 'd better warn you , they 've a bush telegraph around here that works faster than the speed of light . ’ |
| 25 | Those criteria should be sent to the Housing Executive immediately so that it can begin to process such cases . |
| 26 | A secondary aim which came to the fore as the project developed was to define the categories of the annotation scheme sufficiently rigorously that they can be applied in a predictable fashion to other language samples — that is , the SUSANNE annotation scheme is intended to offer a ‘ Linnaean Taxonomy for the English Language ’ . |
| 27 | I go through an estate agent up there that , that acts as my agent but erm do n't make any money out of it . |
| 28 | Sighing , she pulled on socks and sweater , then knotted the scarf at her throat and secured one of the ends to her sweater with the silver lioness brooch so automatically that she paused , eyeing herself in the mirror . |
| 29 | And the triple classic winner flew across Newmarket Heath so fast that Clive is brimming with confidence that she can stay unbeaten next Sunday . |
| 30 | Revisit the planning the fu the fact finder okay so that the sort of phraseology will be well I 'm sure you , you found this a very worthwhile exercise |