Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you find it difficult to keep a rally going within the confines of the court , chase the ball wherever it goes so that you become accustomed to the habit of pursuing the ball . |
| 2 | Mains lights are available from good garden centres and d-i-y stores , and the most versatile type for creative garden lighting is a spotlight with a spike that can be pushed into the ground and a head that swivels so that the beam can be adjusted . |
| 3 | The roller is independent of the vehicle that it transports so that , if the rollers have a circumference of three feet ( or , say , one metre ) then the slab will move forward six feet ( say , two metres ) per rev . |
| 4 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 5 | ‘ We feel the case for the Albion is unanswerable … does the Government think that if Leyland-DAF goes down that Britain will suddenly stop needing buses , trucks and vans ? |
| 6 | This plan should be regularly updated as the design evolves so that at any moment in time it represents the best forecast of the final cost of the project . |
| 7 | In a private firm , it may be argued , the problem of executing policy involves only that the individual concerned takes the actions that maximize ( expected ) profits . |
| 8 | When an active fang is ripped out , the next most mature one takes its place and quickly develops so that it is ready to fire . |
| 9 | It was just one of these regular lunch-parties he has so that he can keep in touch with people he would n't otherwise meet . |
| 10 | We assume that the orbital plane has so that the metric eqn ( 4.10 ) becomes where , M is the Sun 's mass , and r is the distance of Mercury from the Sun . |
| 11 | One allocation that would be both efficient and equitable in this sense would be an initial endowment at 1 where both A and B have the same X and Y. Since they face the same budget constraint , each can have what the other has so that any trades away from equal allocation to the contract curve must meet the reverse allocation test illustrated as part ( b ) of the figure . |
| 12 | Nor is there anything remotely convincing about its performance ; there is a feeling of some urgency from 4000rpm but the power stops as suddenly as it starts so that the 6500rpm red line is a merely a figment of someone 's imagination . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | LABOUR has set up a confidential hotline for NHS whistleblowers so that staff who want to raise concerns about standards of care can do so in confidence . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | The paradox does not present itself in quite so acute a form if a weaker version of the contextual approach is adopted , which holds merely that the meaning of a lexical unit reveals itself through its contextual relations , without commitment as to what meaning ‘ really is ’ . |
| 17 | It matters only that it does . |
| 18 | It matters only that it is a tribute well deserved and well located . |
| 19 | The way round it is to avoid making everything a priority , which is the great temptation in the health service , and establish what 's wanted by both ministers and users participating in a debate about what matters so that you limit the number of priorities , then get them refined so that they are easily understandable and structured . ’ |
| 20 | The whole effect of Biddesden is ravishing , and it matters not that no one knows who the architect was . |
| 21 | It matters not that those customers are today seen as perfectly reasonable countries without weapons intentions who should not be denied the benefits of modern technology . |
| 22 | Where this is done it matters not that the pedestrians have n't put a foot on the crossing or that they have actually crossed and the offence can still be committed ( Gullen v Ford [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 24 and Connor v Paterson ( 1977 ) 121 Sol Jo 392 ) . |
| 23 | It matters not that a reasonable man would have known the information to be so . |
| 24 | It matters not that those others sought , however strongly , to persuade the patient to refuse , so long as in the end the refusal represented the patient 's independent decision . |
| 25 | Subject to some exceptions … it matters not that the doer of the act of usurpation did not know , and could not by the exercise of any reasonable care have known of his neighbour 's interest in the goods . |
| 26 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |
| 27 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 28 | Rather , the most powerful individuals are often those who do not have to engage in conflict but who obtain what they desire because everyone accepts unconsciously that they should benefit ( third dimension of power ) . |
| 29 | erm that then do n't come on either , but when it clicks like that they flash together and they both light up , and then when you start it up they go up and then they come back on again |
| 30 | The study , by three university-based research centres , concludes cautiously that " the accumulation of further data " since the publication of the Black report in 1984 suggests that chance " is not the correct explanation " . |