Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] that [art] " in BNC.

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1 By the third day they were quarrelling openly and at times so fiercely that the knights standing around went for their swords .
2 The good readers , in contrast , seem to recognise words so quickly that the beneficial ( or harmful ) effects of context do not have time to take effect .
3 A successful team blends these different roles together so that the strengths of one compensate for the weaknesses of another .
4 They have played the roles so often that the women must be part of their lives .
5 The jail demands not only that the prisoners change , but so too do the prison officers .
6 The simultaneous plunges in share and property prices have weakened banks ' capital ratios so drastically that no single Japanese bank boasts a Triple A credit rating .
7 There are important limitations here so that a guarantee could provide a defence to a manufacturer in respect of damage to property ( personal injury and death being excluded by s2 of UCTA 1977 ) caused by defective goods which is not due to negligence .
8 Right : Vi-Spring will custom-make any of its bed bases to fit existing bedsteads , adding blocks underneath so that the divan fits snugly and securely on to the frame .
9 Three so good you should find that three pieces just like that the same size as that would all just fit together to make a whole .
10 The volumes , bound in green leather and tooled in gold , were identical in size and fitted the bookshelves so precisely that the effect was more of an artist 's trompe-l'oeil than of a working library .
11 These snakes have evolved the ability to rear up and squeeze their poison glands so forcibly that the venom inside them is propelled towards their enemy as a jet or spray of droplets .
12 Rinse the prints downwards so that the ferri.runs off the print and not over the image .
13 Eric Clapton used to buy medium gauge sets , discard the sixth string and move the other strings across so that the 5th became the 6th , and used a plain banjo G string for the top E.
14 Cut all the vegetables finely so that the dish can be eaten easily with just a fork .
15 However , it seems that leave is refused for between a quarter and a third of all AJRs , and this might suggest that the leave requirement is performing some other function such as keeping the number of pending AJRs down so that the delay between the granting of leave and the hearing is not too great .
16 We are then in fact neglecting the product terms in so that The exact relation between the components of large strain and the infinitesimal terms is easily found .
17 An electoral chain of command pushes orders up so that the people control things at the same time as those in authority are responsible down to the people or to the government of the people .
18 Rehang the appropriate shoulder of the first piece you knitted from its waste yarn on to the needles you have just emptied , with the right side towards you and pulling the needles out so that the stitches are just behind the latches .
19 I drove twenty yards ahead so that the bus would not be blocking my way when it stopped at the bus stop , then I stopped and looked back .
20 The Act of which you speak states equally clearly that a rogue and vagabond is a person who wanders abroad without any visible means of subsistence .
21 Ideally we should like to organize everyone 's plans today so that the social marginal cost of goods in the future just equals the social marginal benefit .
22 How many had been beggared while the war between the royal cousins had swept across their fields or through their towns , while the barons who should have protected them looked only to their own gain , shifting loyalties so often that the ordinary common man found himself constantly besieged and attacked by both sides ?
23 Their front end has a mouth below and a few light-sensitive spots above so that the animal can be said to have the beginnings of a head .
24 For answer , the Robemaker lifted his arms out so that the great black cloak fanned out giving him the outline of a massive bat or a creature of prey .
25 Adjust the size of the spaces fractionally so that the total of scallops and spaces equals the width of the finished curtain .
26 At one point a whole area steams gently so that the visitor can view the sun through a vapoury haze .
27 Sometimes parents rip off stars from charts so often that the child never has enough to exchange for the big reward .
28 We are not trying to say that the number of deaths are going to increases substantially so that the population is not growing .
29 The privilege would not stretch to reports of fresh statements made by speakers after the protected meeting has been closed , although it has been held that it does extend far enough to allow those who have spoken in the course of the meeting to repeat their privileged statements to reporters afterwards so that the latter may check the accuracy of their notes .
30 For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while .
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