Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than by using the fist , the greatest volume is attained more easily and also more beautifully by placing the notes so close together that the ear hears no space between them . |
| 2 | And kids mean money — not money like throw-it-away 1986 money , but chronic money : money which goes slice by slice into the mortgage , the pension plan , the life insurance , the repairs to the house ( yes , it 's goodbye rank , noisy little flat and hallo four bedrooms somewhere quieter now that the family 's started ) , school fee plans , nappies , baby clothes , holidays in DIY villas in southern France , and the bigger car to get you , the kids , and their impedimenta to the DIY villa . |
| 3 | Devlin 's hand swung up , he fired three rounds so close together that they might almost have been one . |
| 4 | The falsificationist must now try to make his hypothesis more precise so that it becomes more readily falsifiable . |
| 5 | From here he could see the crowded harbour quarter , the rooftops so close together that they welded in the heat haze into one whole . |
| 6 | And that means looking at the audit schedule out front so that you , you 're not . |
| 7 | If such a structure is to work in practice then it is necessary to keep the teams comparatively small so that they can work together as a unit . |
| 8 | It numbed the mind of one woman so much recently that she left her baby to suffocate inside her car while hoping to hit the jackpot , a bucketful of balls , which can be exchanged for jars of coffee or pairs of tights . |
| 9 | She stared at him , finding the likeness to Han more prominent now that he was smiling . |
| 10 | There was a noise in the passageway outside , and Jehan saw that Kuchuk had left the door slightly ajar so that he could hear . |
| 11 | The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration . |
| 12 | The pleonasm can be cured by making the dependent item more specific so that it makes a net semantic contribution to the phrase : my patriarchal uncle ( notice that adding specificity to the head has no effect : ? my male maternal uncle ) . |
| 13 | Was was that sort of thing quite usual then that the that the children had to find out |
| 14 | Her sturdy common sense , the downright attitude to life which never ceased to surprise him , the constant loving references to a papa and a mama who sounded remarkably practical themselves , even if they had spoiled their beautiful daughter , informed him that she came from a background very unlike any that Dr Neil had ever encountered . |
| 15 | Among the " quick fix " solutions which have been proposed to counter global warming are : placing thousand of large mirrors in space to reflect sunlight ; making aircraft engines less efficient so that soot builds up in the stratosphere , with similar effect ; dumping iron filings into the oceans to stimulate the growth of plankton , which absorbs carbon dioxide ; using lasers to break up chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere ; and firing a million tons of dust into the upper atmosphere , also with a view to reflecting solar radiation . |
| 16 | This was a new definition of poor — a depth of misery more nauseating even that the stink that still rose from my stained boots . |
| 17 | Actually , that definition of an operator proves to be a bit too general so that I have to narrow my choice somewhat , in a way I shall describe shortly . |
| 18 | Joint treatment protocols should be extended to the community pharmacy wherever possible so that local practices know what the pharmacist will sell . |