Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb pp] [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ca n't stay there all winter , ’ said Libby as they slipped out early , the house having been woken by their father getting up , trying to pull his boots on , shutting the dogs in the boiler shed so that they would not follow . |
| 2 | As a start one should ask , ‘ Is the vehicle constructed so that it can be mechanically propelled ? ’ i.e. is there a mechanical means of propulsion other than ‘ person power ’ alone , e.g. pedalling a pedal cycle . |
| 3 | Do n't ask whether the engine is in working order but ask ‘ Is the vehicle constructed so that it can be mechanically propelled ? ’ |
| 4 | Woods seems to assume in the passage cited above that there are only a few regions where high quality accidental word matches take place . |
| 5 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 6 | The Embassy was trying to have the bodies released so that they could be flown back to England for burial . |
| 7 | Copyright is a complex subject and it is vital that the professional artist is aware of the issues involved so that he or she can make the most of opportunities and guard against exploitation . |
| 8 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 9 | If it is unnecessarily bureaucratic the engineer should seek to have the systems modified so that they contribute more cost effectively to improved quality . |
| 10 | If the Secretary exercises such right the Lead Organization will notify the Party affected so that it may have the opportunity of making representations to the Secretary of State . |