Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was alive , if she had to go somewhere that might not be safe , Tom went with her . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 3 | The cause had to be lack of food , the mints I 'd had earlier had obviously worn off , but , soft-hearted fool that I am , I was trying to wait so that me and the invalid could sit and break bread together . |
| 4 | Such flexibility allows users to see only that part of the data model that interests them and avoid an otherwise over-complicated view of the model , and supports other requirements such as privacy and security . |
| 5 | It will be videoed , to se you 'll make two applications within that small group session and a second will be videoed but only for you to see so that you can take it away and try and learn from er seeing yourself on video . |
| 6 | If they have to shoot to kill so that their children live , they will . |
| 7 | Australia have shown you have to lose so that you can eventually win . |
| 8 | It was a reminder of the early days of European seamanship , when captains discouraged their crews from learning how to swim so that they were more likely to sink with their ship than abandon their posts and struggle for shore . |
| 9 | It is better for both partners to attend so that they can discuss the issue and fully appreciate its implications . |
| 10 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 11 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 12 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 13 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 14 | Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily . |
| 15 | The upshot of this difficulty in finding simple conditions relating to subadditivity is that to establish empirically that an industry is a natural monopoly is by no means straightforward ( though see , for example , Evans and Heckman , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | It had been pulling the small cart through backstreets for years now and seemed to know instinctively that it would probably be required to stop at any moment , so there was no point in hurrying . |
| 17 | Ordinary women seemed to know instinctively that from the hip down ( and especially from behind ) culottes produced an unflattering outline , the mini won hands down . |
| 18 | Yes you do go on tell i what have I just been telling you then that you need to concentrate on that I think you should be concentrating on . |
| 19 | We need to accept only that the change in snail shell is a fluke adaptation . |
| 20 | If rights are being infringed the Purchaser will need to know so that it can restructure the Business to avoid further infringements . |
| 21 | He wanted the days to pass so that he could be back at Ravenswood School , safe in the dining-hall and his classroom . |
| 22 | The hound had been given something of Sir Henry 's to smell so that it would pick up his scent and follow him . |
| 23 | For the two bodies to be declared as interfering it is sufficient to find only that any surface of one body has an intersection with any of the surfaces of the second , within their boundaries ( including holes ) . |
| 24 | Mothers and daughters tend to develop a close grooming association which tends to persist so that these close relatives have about the same rank , the daughter 's being contingent upon that of the mother . |
| 25 | For two people who both were always in control , this was something of a miracle — to let go of control completely — to trust enough that they were both hurled into the abyss of pure sensation , pure feeling . |
| 26 | Right , well I I part of me says , the the there are two aspects , the other side of the coin a little bit , if we talk about recording achievement and not recording failure , we here have an opportunity to point out to youngsters , encourage youngsters in that they are all capable of achieving in some way and to get them to write down that they have achieved , that 's the other side of the coin . |
| 27 | A further complication may be that any sideslipping to correct for drift may cause the ASI to under-read so that the speed may have to be judged . |
| 28 | On Monday morning he drove the car to work so that he could show his colleagues the slightly dented bumper . |
| 29 | As a sentencing judge you are always looking for options erm a variety of options to impose so that each individual sentence that you impose on a defendant is tailored to either the rehabilitation or the punishment ends of sentencing . |
| 30 | So I was quite pleased , at the end of my United Airlines flight to Chicago , to discover merely that one of my two bags was missing . |