Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helping parents in this way is an attempt to provide them with child-management skills for life so that they can generate solutions to many of the problems they face without reference to professionals at all . |
| 2 | On each side of the room where they stood were massive iron furnaces ; great , glowing stoves that belched out waves of heat so that the air was heavy and fetid . |
| 3 | For navigation in the hyper-medium , it is important to be able to identify uniquely individual units of text so that cross-references can be resolved . |
| 4 | Applying the principles of the 12 Steps in all aspects of life so that they become a natural way of life and provide the capacity to live happily and confidently without the need for mood-altering substances or behaviours . |
| 5 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 6 | Lee also received National Assembly approval for a number of other major constitutional amendments , which reapportioned the seats in the three elected branches of government so that most of the delegates would be elected from Taiwanese ( as opposed to mainland Chinese ) constituencies . |
| 7 | It is in the myth of Odysseus that they most poignantly figure out the tragic paralysis of the dialectic , and , by extension , the quandary of cultural critique : to steer past the temptations of the Sirens whose fatal song can not be resisted , Odysseus stuffs his men 's ears with wax so that they will not be distracted from their rowing , and binds himself to the mast with orders that he must not be released . |
| 8 | Get the repeat prescriptions in time so that he is never left without . |
| 9 | She started to teach him rhymes and poems and then she would write them down on scraps of paper so that he could follow the letters through when he was on his own . |
| 10 | This is difficult to define satisfactorily , but in the context of brief therapy it involves the therapist suggesting to the patient the possible motivation underlying his behaviour , with the objective of increasing understanding as a step towards behaviour change ( e.g. overeating may be explained in terms of a patient 's need for comfort at times of loneliness so that the patient may be more able to tackle the problem ) . |
| 11 | Like the Carthusians she needed help to wed the old and new forms of spirituality so that her new contemplative vocation was not a painful dislocation from the past . |
| 12 | Or , asking your employer if you can change your hours of work so that you can take advantage of cheap rate travel . |
| 13 | At the same time , other workers may be induced to offer more hours of work so that the final effect on the supply of hours is uncertain . |
| 14 | The student is given the opportunity either of broadening his areas of study so that he learns some of the principles and methods of several disciplines or of concentrating on the narrower range in order to become a specialist after suitable experience , training or further study . |
| 15 | If the organisation appoints committees to deal with aspects of planning , policy forming and co-ordination there needs to be clear lines of communication so that everyone involved knows the person to whom the committee reports . |
| 16 | Each group in the past has operated with generally accepted lines of demarcation so that fault-finding and repair of a particular machine may involve several trade groups and take some considerable time while the fault is correctly identified and the appropriate craftsworker brought to the machine . |
| 17 | However , it is necessary to recognize these limitations of enumeration so that they can be overcome in practice . |
| 18 | Our model requires two sites of learning so that constant head velocity can generate constant eye velocity . |
| 19 | Benny and Eve were in the window of Healy 's Hotel practising having cups of coffee so that they would look well accustomed to it when they got to the Dublin coffee houses . |
| 20 | Farmers are wondering what to do with eight million tonnes of straw now that burning it has been banned . |
| 21 | In recovery the Anonymous Fellowships , based upon the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous , provide successful continuing treatment for the spiritual disease that led to those disorders of mood so that recourse to addictive substances or behaviours becomes unnecessary . |
| 22 | Along with the merger , Postbank shareholders will be asked to approve a change to the bank 's articles of association so that it can engage in wider areas of business . |
| 23 | That the Board be authorised to exercise the power contained in Article 134 of the Articles of Association so that , to the extent and manner determined by the Board , the holders of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company be permitted to elect to receive ordinary shares , credited as fully paid , instead of cash in respect of all or part of any interim or the final dividend relating to the year ending on 31 December 1993 , such authority to expire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 1994 . |
| 24 | One engineering firm had so many applications for time off that it warned absentees they would be suspended for three weeks . |
| 25 | The proposed treaty changes would be then submitted to national parliaments for ratification so that they could enter into force on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 26 | fellow peasants carry Colas into Mother Simone 's kitchen hidden in sheaves of corn so that he can meet Lise . |
| 27 | Also he needs to provide places of meeting so that those activities can be pursued communally when required . |
| 28 | James — though younger — butted his pieces of wood so that the train ran smoothly over the joins . |
| 29 | ‘ Inflation ’ , as this is called , got a rapturous reception when it was put forward in 1980 , despite , or perhaps because of , its weirdness ( cosmologists , after all , undergo years of training so that they can say things like ‘ When the universe was the size of a grapefruit ’ without blushing or laughing ) . |
| 30 | Butterflies do so by displaying their wings , the marvellous intricate patterns of which are statements of identity so that individuals may recognise those with whom mating can be fertile . |