Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 This emphasis upon the need for cultural and social reinforcement , though often overlooked by educationalists , is crucially important if the learning process is to be useful and related to the experience of the community groups so that they feel they can go on to employ practical applications of their learning .
2 Tie the beef and lamb into compact rolls or squares so that they retain their shape during cooking and will be easy to cut .
3 Lyn took one of the gravel paths into the grounds of the general hospital , walking towards the sun that dazzled her eyes so that she screwed them up against it .
4 and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean
5 It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her .
6 I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised , her action in not leaving a note seeming poor thanks now that she knew he had only been trying to protect her from himself when he 'd called her clinging .
7 and unfortunately it was only about eight months before that she lost her mother , only her mother was the dominant feature of the family you see she kept them all together
8 ‘ Only if you promise not to talk Man 's Talk when I 'm in the kitchen making gagging noises so that you think I 've got an Espresso machine , ’ said Sorrel , eyeing him suspiciously .
9 There are n't the professional barriers there that I think there were ten years ago .
10 Well there there are three there are three organizations or companies there that I think you 'd be er happier in especially going out for the first time and also er your style .
11 ( ii ) They should have continuing opportunities to write for formal or public purposes so that they increase their command of the structures of written Standard English .
12 It was several days later that he found himself rising through the complex of dripping wet catwalks and steps that ran around the Power line .
13 I learned that , like Jane Austen , she was an ASROG ( Abbey School Reading Old Girl ) , though it was not until years later that she sent me these scraps from a diary kept during her schooldays .
14 Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 .
15 When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ .
16 And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret .
17 It was n't till years later that I realised they had n't even remembered to ask if f was a lesbian .
18 It was years later that I realised I really would have to tackle it , but I found it was much easier than I had expected .
19 It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm .
20 It was not until a few years later that I think his talent really started to manifest itself because you could n't quite think where it was going .
21 Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend .
22 erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ?
23 It was only three years ago that we split our business from Healthcare and we really are a stand-alone Division now , particularly with the advent of M.S.I.L. [ Medical Services Incineration Limited ] .
24 My dear mother 's statement years ago that I deprived her of her fur coat and that I was n't much to look at — she once actually pronounced me ugly — bit deep .
25 It seemed much easier to sit and do nothing , to pretend that he did n't exist , to empty your mind of feelings so that you felt nothing , nothing at all … .
26 A child darted out in front of the striding troopers so that they checked their pace .
27 No it 's the flour and things like that we said it 's
28 ‘ I try to just get the feelings across that I know he probably felt .
29 It is important that we continue to put ourselves into all sorts of learning situations so that we recognise what we need to do or stop doing with our pupils .
30 Erm I did give out a plea about two hours ago that I lost my umbrella at the music festival this weekend .
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