Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Word was a year or two ago that the joints were popping with air-hostesses , models and career women : five minutes , a couple of lite beers , and you 'd be in a hotel room or service flat with some little darling doing the splits on your face . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Malta 's reconnaissance aircraft were out looking for Axis convoys bound for Tripoli or Benghazi so that the island 's bombers might strike at them and disrupt the flow of supplies and reinforcements to Rommel 's command . |
| 3 | In critically ill patients or those with changing renal function , assays may be necessary earlier than this so that the dosage can be adjusted to avoid tissue accumulation . |
| 4 | Overcoming this Catch 22 has cost modern fusion research billions of dollars so far , using arrays of magnets as big as houses in order to contain the fuel at temperatures ten times hotter even than those in the centre of the Sun , and making it dense enough and stable enough that a self-sustaining reaction can occur . |
| 5 | Its end is both sticky and muscular so that a toad can use it first to grasp a worm or a slug and then to carry it bodily back to the mouth . |
| 6 | The atmosphere filters out most of the gamma and X-radiation so that the amount reaching ground level from space is virtually zero , and astronomers who seek to measure these short-wave radiations must send their telescopes into space . |
| 7 | The church is high and light so that the vista from narthex to eastern apse is clear and uninterrupted . |
| 8 | ‘ It can become over-bureaucratic and ritualistic so that the words and the jargon take over . |
| 9 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |
| 10 | The colour of the team 's socks , until 1927 black with thin red and white stripes , was altered to a more distinctive blue and white so that the players could recognize their colleagues more easily without looking up . |
| 11 | It appeared exactly the same — its walls hung with innumerable paintings , prints and photographs , their frames dull with years , their glass wavy and opaque so that the subjects had lost whatever initial impact they had and were now just pictures collecting dust . |
| 12 | They lubricate it with a saliva that is sticky so that the ants adhere to it , and alkaline so that the formic acid of their stings is neutralised . |
| 13 | Clara , grown careless and ruthless now that the struggle was over , did not fail to point out that the school would have helped upon request . |
| 14 | Perhaps this was in the Collector 's mind as he lay there , silent and motionless now that the fever had left him and he was beginning to recover . |
| 15 | The Turkistan-Siberian ( or Turksib ) line was built between 1928 and 1931 so that the grain of Western Siberia could be exchanged for the cotton of Central Asia , releasing the Central Asian cotton-growers from the need for food production . |
| 16 | And then it was over , and they were coming out into the grey , windy day , the mothers trying not to look at the white-capped sea beyond the point , the boys suddenly gruff and silent now that the moment of parting was come . |
| 17 | It is a female eider , duller and browner now that the mating season — for which she did not , in any case , dress up — is over . |
| 18 | I leave this until last so that the lightness of the stone can be assessed in order to maximise the contrast between the shaded steps and their outer-frame . |
| 19 | I leave this until last so that the lightness of the stone can be assessed in order to maximise the contrast between the shaded steps and their outer-frame . |
| 20 | In the circumstances , however , the period of remand should clearly be as short as possible so that an early decision may be made on the full evidence . |
| 21 | I usually do this as little as possible so that the children stay in the game a long time . |
| 22 | We feel that all doctors or other qualified individuals seeing a myocardial infarction for the first time should consider thrombolytic therapy as early as possible so that the maximum amount of myocardium can be salvaged . |
| 23 | As to the poor , Lord Mamey 's solutions are simple : emigration on a large scale and the destruction of as many cottages as possible so that the population of his parishes is not increased . |
| 24 | In 1839 , the year of the Chartist petition to Parliament ( itself precipitated by the Act ) , Disraeli 's delinquent Lord Marney is pulling down as many of his cottages as possible so that the poor do not become a charge upon his parish . |
| 25 | I 'd like the Laboratory building checked first , and as quickly as possible so that the staff can get back to work . |
| 26 | In addition the Board believes that the best way to serve shareholders is to keep administration as simple as possible so that the Group can concentrate on its core business and maximise profit growth . ’ |
| 27 | Said Ted : ‘ I just want to live as long as possible so that the murderer can be found . ’ |
| 28 | In these circumstances , it is probable that both transactions will be regarded as interdependent so that the part exchange element may be construed as a sale subject to a condition subsequently , thereby , making it determinable if the financier does not accept the transaction . |
| 29 | The few oral statements reported in the text are clearly marked as such so that no one can be in doubt as to their hypothetical nature . |
| 30 | In any event , cross-references which can not be resolved will remain flagged as such so that the system is always consistent with respect to which references are navigable . |