Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the tensile load is enlarged , both the elongation and the creep rate increase , so results are usually reported in terms of the creep compliance J(t) , defined as the ratio of the relative elongation y at time t to the stress so that |
| 2 | This involved the translocation of the gene responsible for resistance to the carbamate insecticide propoxur on to the male-Y-chromosome so that only the males were resistant . |
| 3 | How did they get the message down to the port here that a boat would be coming in ? |
| 4 | So how often are you going to be going to the dance now that the weather 's better you mean |
| 5 | If the bill and the reminder notice have been issued in accordance with the regulations and the charge is still outstanding , the magistrate must issue a liability order to the council so that it can take action against the defaulter . |
| 6 | It 's got to be important to the child so that he needs to know whether he means four times two-plus-one or four-times-two plus one , whichever way it is . |
| 7 | This treatment is highly effective but smacks a little of a rather punitive approach to the patient now that long-acting penicillins are available which only need to be given once or twice a week . |
| 8 | If you do find that you have recorded an unsatisfactory shot , cut your losses there and then by reversing back to the beginning so that you can over-record with something better before continuing with the rest of the shoot . |
| 9 | His chair was pulled close to the stove so that he could prop one elbow against the chimney as he studied the pages of his newspaper . |
| 10 | He turned on the gas and put a match to the stove so that it could warm the office . |
| 11 | As in unregistered conveyancing it is probably advisable that the husband keeps a duplicate or certified copy of the transfer to the wife so that he has a record of the terms of indemnity given to him by the wife . |
| 12 | Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk . |
| 13 | Their objective was to lure Beatty to the scene so that they might trap and destroy some small portion of the British Fleet before retiring to sanctuary in their harbours on the German mainland . |
| 14 | Modernity has been a bit like that in the last thirty years , except that as the story progresses , faster and faster — with many Enlightenment doctrines reappearing in new form — new lines keep being added to the narrative so that no one knows how the story will end . |
| 15 | The fatal injury was a blow to the head , not a very heavy blow but the deceased had taken a substantial amount of alcohol in the hours before he suffered the injury , and the effect of alcohol is to increase the flow of blood to the brain so that , et cetera , et cetera , et cetera . |
| 16 | Below this a valve closes , dividing the airflow to the engine so that it runs as two separate three cylinder units . |
| 17 | It is restful to sit at an angle so that the right arm is in a straight line with the needle and at right angles to the machine so that the wrist is also straight . |
| 18 | Banks of muscles are attached to the backbone so that the tail can be beaten from side to side with unflagging strength throughout the fish 's life . |
| 19 | In an ideal situation , surgery is planned and patients are admitted to the ward prior to the operation so that they may be prepared physically and psychologically for their forthcoming operation . |
| 20 | She had hoped to time her nightly visit to the nursery so that he was actually being put down to sleep . |
| 21 | An informant is not required to register a death which is the subject of a coroner 's inquest , but the coroner 's officer may inform the relatives when the coroner has issued his inquest certificate to the registrar so that the relatives can obtain any death certificates from the registrar . |
| 22 | The principal weakness of these provisions is that companies ( especially , but not exclusively , private ones ) are deplorably dilatory in delivering returns to the Registrar so that at any one time a majority of companies are in arrear to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 23 | Always write messages down at once , and read them back to the caller so that they can be checked . |
| 24 | I want to be out on a limb with my back to the water so that I can see what the rest of the world is doing . |
| 25 | The instant the right leg goes out , the right hand is dropped to the floor so that the body is supported by both hands . |
| 26 | Recovery operations continued and hundreds of items were finally brought to the surface so that the plane could be painstakingly pieced back together again . |
| 27 | Mounted on a white horse and crowned with the tiara , the pope , accompanied by high-ranking church officials , the cardinals and abbots , the civil officers , the prefect and the senator of Rome , the nobles , and the consuls and rectors of the papal cities processed through the whole city from St Peter 's to the Lateran so that the new pope might be seen by the people . |
| 28 | Lines of latitude are shown on the Mercator projection as being equal in length to the equator so that the scale along these lines of latitude increases away from the equator ; so much so , in fact , that Greenland appears as large as Canada and Alaska together . |
| 29 | So they had a meeting and decided they would put a big net over the entrance to the valley so that it would never be able to get in again . |
| 30 | He told me that he had come to the Legion so that he could kill people without going to prison . |