Example sentences of "[art] ground [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She banged against the crate heavily and the one on top of it which had been badly placed fell onto the ground so that some of the bananas spilled out around her feet . |
| 2 | When he is walking outside , the patient has to be specially careful to lift his feet off the ground so that he does not trip . |
| 3 | Another innovation made in 1932 was a huge 45-minute clock which Chapman had installed at the north end of the ground so that players and spectators could see at a glance how much time was left for play . |
| 4 | You can prove this for yourself : stand with one leg off the ground so that you are balanced on one leg , and then just close your eyes . |
| 5 | When the rabbits are removed from the net I always toss mine belly upwards to the ground so that the white hair on the underside makes the rabbit more visible in the darkness and I can then collect it later once the killing operation has been completed all along the net . |
| 6 | The rest of the children were seated on the ground so that all five of them were now very exposed . |
| 7 | Their calls are immediately taken up by the whole team and the spectators on the ground so that the forest rings with wild and terrifying shrieks . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , in the north-west , Carlisle cathedral and neighbouring houses were burnt to the ground so that the clergy had , as one chronicler put it , nowhere to lay their heads . |
| 9 | That night , worried about the water entering his house as he slept , he left the edge of his bedsheet dangling on the ground so that the water would awaken him . |
| 10 | He slung the bag into the culvert and replaced the bicycle , remembering to lift it clear of the ground so that the whickering of the freewheel gear would n't give him away . |
| 11 | The front leg also bends at the knee , with the heel raised from the ground so that only the ball of the foot touches the floor ( a sort of tip-toe position ) . |
| 12 | For this essentially destructive task , this necessary clearing of the ground so that greater liberty for the individual could be obtained naturally and more or less spontaneously , an absolute ruler seemed well suited . |
| 13 | In desperation he lifted her bodily off the ground so that she was helplessly pinned against his solid frame , and she discovered to her horror that hating him did n't in any way negate the way he could make her feel . |
| 14 | So , while it 's a dull spot for sales , it 's time to prepare the ground so that , when the holiday-makers return , Wimpey will get the lion 's share of the Autumn buyers . |
| 15 | From the outset the wide impact of the ban was and anticipate , the experiment has given me opportunity for it to be tested on the ground so that future decision can be taken objectively . |
| 16 | The kanun , included in a late seventeenth-century anthology ( 1095/1684 ) , purports to reflect the practice of the time of Suleyman , but that the kanun in the form published by Uzuncarsili dates from Suleyman 's time must be rejected on the grounds both that many of the kadiliks mentioned did not attain mevleviyet status until the late sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and that two of them Kandiye ( Candia ) and Kamanice ( Kamenets-Podolskiy ) — did not come into Ottoman hands until 1080/ 1669 and 1083/1672 respectively . |
| 17 | On the assumption that neither Hezarfen on the one hand nor Ali and Kocu Bey on the other is simply in error , one can perhaps reconcile these two apparently contradictory statements on the grounds either that it was only in the technical matter of the that Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to be regarded as 300-akce kadiliks , their holders actually being given 500 akce a day ; or that , while still being paid only 300 akce a day , they had come to be regarded as 500-akce mevleviyets from the hierarchical point of view , for the obvious reason that they were in fact higher in rank than any of the other kadiliks . |
| 18 | A number of people were granted exemption on the grounds either that they were too poor to pay taxes and rates or that they had a certificate signed by the minister and parish officers to the effect that their premises were worth not more than 1 per annum or that their personal property was worth less than £10 per annum ; however , no exemption was allowed anyone possessing more than two hearths . |
| 19 | to me that it would be perverse of us to fall into the trap if we were to do so of endorsing Policy E two and not know that what we were endorsing was in fact what the Secretary of State specifically rejected on the grounds perhaps that it was unduly restricted or detailed or inappropriate for some of those other reasons that are set out in the earlier part of that notice of approval . |