Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The user should rename the file so that it does not exceed the LIFESPAN maximum filename length . |
| 2 | In principle all programs should strive for perfection and if you find a bug you should report the problem so that it can be fixed . |
| 3 | Adeva should become an actress now that she does n't seem to have a record deal . |
| 4 | In recent years the press has had to challenge such diverse rulings as an order not to name a witness from a famous family lest publicity might interfere with her care for heroin addiction ; an order not to publish the address of a former Tory MP lest his estranged wife should discover his whereabouts and harass him , and an order that reporters should leave the court so that a distressed defendant could explain in privacy the matrimonial problems which drove her to drink before she drove her car . |
| 5 | Because the service standards are likely to be somewhat lower than in a commercial operation , you might set the rate so that they were 50 per cent ( or even 60 per cent ) of the total . |
| 6 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 7 | They were asking Kurz if he could lower a rope so that they could attach some supplies to it . |
| 8 | And then he 'd buy a bit so that he could send a bit to the London market — not in a very big way but enough to utilize all the money he had to do what he was doing . |
| 9 | No , oh I do n't think I could do the travelling now that I used to do , but er |
| 10 | The problem was , Cora-Beth could see no reason now that they were engaged why they should not make love . |
| 11 | If you could put the word around that a substantial reward will be paid for information leading to the boy 's capture . " |
| 12 | If this happens with a child resistant closure of the click-lock type the force necessary to try to undo the cap may disrupt the mechanism so that the cap can not be removed without use of brute force and a screwdriver . |
| 13 | The House of Lords upheld the award as a punishment to both author and publisher , as there was evidence that both were reckless about the truth of the defamatory statements in the book , and indeed hoped that they would cause a sensation so that the book 's sales would increase . |
| 14 | There are hopes that the aircraft may receive a reprieve so that it could perform during the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the RAF in April next year . |
| 15 | Still I approve of his wish that the next time round he will become a woman so that he can bear children . |
| 16 | When they return with the honey , they too will perform a dance so that , in a very short time , most of the worker force in the hive is actively gathering honey from the new source . |
| 17 | The planned legislation , to be introduced in next year 's finance bill , will simplify the system so that the self-employed are taxed on profits earned in the current year , rather than the complex preceding year system which currently exists . |
| 18 | Indeed , it has been kept so secret that no summary or abstract of the review is to be made available — If the Secretary of State wants to say that he will publish the review so that the House can measure the current proposals against his madcap scheme for dismembering the inspectorate , he should say so now . |
| 19 | Erm , one other thing that I want to make about erm , the victims , erm , I am very much er , involved with erm , victim support Wiltshire , and one of the problems with victim support Wiltshire is their work is increasing all the time because the crime rate goes up , and every time there is more crime there is more victims , but the , the Government has not yet said that they will put the money up that they erm , that they er , the grant up that they give to the victim support . |
| 20 | In time these three will form a screen so that I can arrange for a complete change of scenery on either side . |
| 21 | We will reform the law so that pension funds belong to their members , not to employers . |
| 22 | Open most astronomy textbooks and you will find a statement somewhere that calls the Sun an average star . |
| 23 | If we are cunning , we can design the hierarchy so that every path at every level is just two or three steps long . |
| 24 | Have we any reason to suppose that yet another solution of the problem is to be found , and that we can introduce a precedent so that the native subject races may remain in existence , unfused with ours , and yet in subjection ? |
| 25 | Even if he is walking well , you may need to take a wheelchair in case he gets tired , or you can plan the outing so that you walk short distances between benches in the street or local park . |
| 26 | Even if there has been an infection , this does not rule out the possibility of food sensitivity : diarrhoea of any sort can sensitize the gut so that foods which were previously eaten without trouble now produce symptoms . |
| 27 | Now in drama an excessive degree of vested interest in either the technical aspects or in the substance of the subject-matter can upset the balance so that the ‘ game ’ of drama and the necessary spontaneity that goes with it disappear . |
| 28 | You can collapse the outline so that it shows just the titles of each slide or expand it so that you see the text of bullet charts . |
| 29 | The political model accepts that micropolitical activity can dominate the organisation so that genuine organisational objectives can not be operationalised . |
| 30 | But I think he 's lovely , and you can tell a mile off that he likes you . |