Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] that " in BNC.

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31 SuperCalc 5.5 has extended the use of fonts in printing spreadsheet ranges so that the facilities that were previously limited to laser printers now apply to most dot matrix printers .
32 A man who has skills of basic cooking , cleaning and mending already within his grasp is better prepared ; and by the same token , retirement provides an opportunity for women to learn some ‘ male ’ skills , such as wiring plugs , changing tap washers , and other household repairs so that , if she should be widowed , she will not feel totally helpless .
33 It is essential that the teamwork and positive approach to our work continues so that we can cope with any increase which may be generated from an improvement in trading .
34 The leader of the Tory group on the council admits anxiously that services will have to be cut if the defaulters are not vigorously pursued .
35 Subsequent criticism of inadequate standardisation suggests indeed that there was some sensitivity to the benefits of using the remaining economic life of non-standard systems and older equipment within Boards .
36 The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is .
37 Despite these considerations many economists believe that the tendency of prices to remain unchanged over several periods suggests strongly that they are not in equilibrium , as one would expect the equilibrium price to have changed over that interval .
38 Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) .
39 Recent and current work demonstrates incontrovertibly that if a child is adept at segmenting heard speech into sub-word constituents before tackling the task of learning to read , this task will be accomplished much more easily .
40 This case shows neither that employers should refuse jobs to those who have a murky past nor that they should not entrust secrets to subordinate employees — that is impracticable — but that they should not simply rely on the implied duty of confidence ; it can lead to misunderstandings and difficulties as to what is really secret .
41 ( The relocation package included an element for expenditure on house hunting and fact finding trips so that staff could explore the area themselves . )
42 Referring to Christ 's teaching in John 10 that he is the good shepherd and the door to the sheepfold through which alone salvation lies so that anyone " that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold , but climbeth up another way , the same is a thief and a robber " , Hilton remarks that anyone who thinks they can bypass the way of darkness is such a " a breker of wal " ( 27.97r. – 245 ) .
43 Chidzero announced some minor income tax concessions , raising the basic abatement and adjusting tax bands so that the top rate of 60 per cent would apply at Z$40,000 instead of Z$33,000 .
44 Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare .
45 Aintree says puckishly that this arrangement is reliable because it depends on people 's judgement , but it is also a hoaxer 's charter .
46 Mr Vecchiotti of Otis says bluntly that the main reason his company chose to move to Penang , not Kuala Lumpur , is that Penang is ‘ more Chinese ’ .
47 Woods assumes here that the estimate , h* ( n ) , is at fault in being too optimistic .
48 Teacher warns beforehand that the reporting back has to be accurate ( extrinsic ) .
49 Andrew Knight says now that there was no target .
50 I hope , however , that the hon. Gentleman will explain to the Leader of the Opposition that Welsh farmers could not afford to have their incomes cuts so that the money could be spent on Spanish , Greek and Portuguese farmers .
51 Another thoughtful refinement is always to arrange the knot in the abseil ropes on the top of the anchor slings so that it does n't run against the rock when pulled .
52 Rawls shows neither that this assumption follows from the Kantian insight nor that it leads to neutral political concern .
53 But the record shows clearly that they were definitely more expensive and at least as disruptive of local village life … as the earlier British programs had been .
54 Kit Martin emphasizes strongly that he makes houses not flats .
55 If the assumption of opportunism is something you regard as an unnecessarily cynical view of human nature , note that its importance requires only that some , not all , people behave in this way and that it is difficult to tell who is opportunistic and who is not .
56 The more permanent way to reduce limitation , however , is to increase capacity — that is to invest time and effort in learning the skills that the job requires so that it can be done more smoothly , more confidently and more speedily .
57 Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park …
58 It managed very few semi-natural woodlands and understood them very little , and had routinely fertilised , ploughed and drained its own forest soils so that long-term changes such as those feared on the continent would be masked by its own management .
59 The subject has not been fully researched before and the author feels strongly that it is important to record these memories before they fade and are finally destroyed .
60 The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems .
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