Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | The central question , then , is not whether or not we should tolerate the rules and conventions , the systems of thought , the preconceptions that regulate enquiry and instruction — for if our enterprise is to have any significance at all we have to — but which rules , conventions , and preconceptions are likely to offer us the most relevant and reliable set of bearings for our work , and how we are to use them so that we can allow for their modification , or even their complete replacement , when new insights and experiences need to be accommodated . |
| 32 | No the the very name , as the name implies , in many cases we would er jettison the drop tanks before entering combat and er therefore there is an agreed rate at which we would expect to use them so that they are a a usable stock in operations . |
| 33 | ‘ How does your father continue to humiliate you now that he is dead ? ’ |
| 34 | does it just make you feel good , or , has it helped you to do something else that you wanted to do . |
| 35 | I went with the boss to do it so that we could follow up the practice of the theory you see . |
| 36 | Those theorists trying to repair the weak interaction should be able to fix it so that the right-handed tau neutrino is much less likely to interact with other matter than the left-handed one is , and thus stays aloof during the big bang . |
| 37 | Simon could n't afford to let himself be divorced ; Constanza did some extremely quixotic things and they managed to fix it so that she appeared to be the guilty party . |
| 38 | Some may contain adulterants to enhance the aroma or to extend it so that it goes further ; others may contain pesticide residues or traces of chemical solvent from the extraction process . |
| 39 | The prisoners , under strict supervision , were allowed to level it so that they could play football or a strange game called rugby , or go running , or simply sit in the sun . |
| 40 | " In a small garden , I think it 's nice to use lots so that you can move them around and build up height where you might not have any . |
| 41 | Oh , it was good food , Sally-Anne thought gratefully , tucking into it , beginning to enjoy herself now that her ordeal was over , and was happy to sit there with Dr Neil who was also enjoying his supper , by his expression . |
| 42 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 43 | He had hinted as much more than once , just vaguely , just enough to entice me so that I want to ask what , so that he knows that I want to ask . |
| 44 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 45 | Araminta had been driven to the celebrations in the gig by Adam Diggory , scorning Benedict 's escort , and Mrs Diggory had been permitted to accompany them so that she might visit her mother , who lived on the Switham estates . |
| 46 | There was nothing to keep him here that could outweigh the thought of the possible conspiracies going on behind his back back home . |
| 47 | They all turned out to watch him go , Pen clamouring to accompany him so that he might be the first to embrace and welcome Lily 's baby . |
| 48 | She wanted to run her fingers through his hair , wanted to nuzzle her nose and chin into his neck , wanted to know the texture of his cheek and jaw , wanted to kiss him so that her lips never forgot the shape of his . |
| 49 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 50 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 51 | Have you got any idea in your retirement about how you 're going to keep yourself so that your body is not going to be a handicap to you ? |
| 52 | That he wanted her uncle to kill him so that her uncle would be damned . |
| 53 | Er Mr also commented om the er consideration of the er emerging alteration and increase in Selby District 's allocation from ten thousand to eleven and a half thousand dwellings erm and I would like to assure him now that we have completed out local plan studies , we are in the process of fine tuning them and and I 'm quite confident that we will be able to accommodate the eleven and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 54 | He 's drunk enough to float the Mauretania , and left me to drive him home that 's had so little over me lips you would think it was Lent . ’ |
| 55 | That 's what she 's supposed to do according to the Citizens Advice Bureau , is to control them so that she do n't annoy the neighbours |
| 56 | The other is to disperse them so that their unwanted presence may be put more or less out of sight ’ ( p. 280 ) . |
| 57 | As the vast majority of applications occur in the same peak period , should not people try to spread them so that there is not the same concentration ? |
| 58 | If the magnet flux is concentrated in certain poles because of the winding excitation then the rotor tends to align itself so that the air-gap reluctance of the flux path is minimised . |
| 59 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 60 | The film includes an extraordinary moment when she orders the punishment of a man who had threatened to rape her so that he might never threaten women again |