Example sentences of "[adv] that they [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the 1950s the first wave of modern consumerism transformed people 's lifestyles so that they came to expect it to be right and natural that they should have consumer durables ( and increasingly non-durable goods ) . |
| 2 | He says horror films and books often portray snakes as monsters ; now he wants people to get to know his reptiles so that they stop fearing them . |
| 3 | He used to pop out and use a pay phone , ringing publishers at awkward times like lunch time so that they had to ring him back . |
| 4 | At night , as they huddled round their fires , the people would murmur about the evil spirit who kicked holes in their kilns so that they had to buy their bricks from Dai Huang . |
| 5 | Let's see if we can move them on this year so that they start to think it 's a charity I know I really want to support . |
| 6 | It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night . |
| 7 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 8 | Notoriously young children learn very quickly how to recite numbers in the right order without having any clear notion of their " cardinal " properties , and it is only gradually that they begin to associate their respective positions in the number series with a relation of magnitude . |
| 9 | SOUTH African police confirmed yesterday that they have broadened their inquiries into cases involving Mrs Winnie Mandela to include three possible charges of kidnapping and one of theft . |
| 10 | ‘ You see , now that they 've got your wife and daughter they have , as I said , changed the rules . ’ |
| 11 | This was purely business , and for all the jolly camaraderie Kate was aware that most of the men she 'd met this evening had grave reservations about her ability to do her job well now that they 'd seen her . |
| 12 | Now that they had made their first move , their first real move , they would not give up until Jack Stone did what he was supposed to do : start talking . |
| 13 | Although many of them had starved in the past and were therefore well equipped to recognize starvation now that they had met it again . |
| 14 | All these aims will be much easier to achieve now that they have met their customers face to face and talked over their problems . |
| 15 | Standard procedure after an election is to review the spending promises which were put in to please voters and , now that they have served their turn , cut some of them out . |
| 16 | It 's only because I know Rome quite well that they 've asked me — Athens I do n't know at all . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed , Hamilton suggested crisply that they had got it wrong and left it at that . |
| 18 | At a grassroots level people tell you freely that they want to curtail their daughters sexuality and if they feel that the appropriate method is castration then so be it . |
| 19 | ‘ Personnel applied to Ardis for a reference — which they freely gave without mentioning anywhere that they had terminated your employment with them . |
| 20 | I am sure that the Minister is aware that the Midland bank , which has done much to develop child care , has said of the Government recently that they keep calling its representatives to conferences at which they urge the importance of child care , but they do nothing . |