Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [adv] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On each side of the room where they stood were massive iron furnaces ; great , glowing stoves that belched out waves of heat so that the air was heavy and fetid . |
| 2 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 3 | This is difficult to define satisfactorily , but in the context of brief therapy it involves the therapist suggesting to the patient the possible motivation underlying his behaviour , with the objective of increasing understanding as a step towards behaviour change ( e.g. overeating may be explained in terms of a patient 's need for comfort at times of loneliness so that the patient may be more able to tackle the problem ) . |
| 4 | At the same time , other workers may be induced to offer more hours of work so that the final effect on the supply of hours is uncertain . |
| 5 | ‘ In the Cheltenham spa grounds there are two lines of paths so that the visitor may take very agreeable strolls , mostly very much sheltered by lofty forest trees . |
| 6 | James — though younger — butted his pieces of wood so that the train ran smoothly over the joins . |
| 7 | In areas near the Pleistocene ice sheets the advent of tundra conditions usually resulted in the rapid weathering of large quantities of material so that the load of the streams was increased in both amount and calibre . |
| 8 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 9 | COMPANIES in the offshore oil business were urged yesterday to change their thinking on ways of operating so that the North Sea could compete with other areas seeking shares of limited investment funds . |
| 10 | She worked furiously , grabbing up heaps of earth and scattering it over the dry , sun-baked grass and loose strands of hay so that the fire should have nothing to devour . |
| 11 | But it still leaves us with the crucial problem that Sartre had to solve , namely how to link human consciousness with the processes of history so that the former can be said to be the agent of the latter . |
| 12 | Such is Kylie 's potential in the eyes of the showbusiness speculators of Hollywood however that the musical may have to wait until she has made another movie . |
| 13 | UIM/X automatically generates C source code based on Motif , conforming to standard specifications for C so that the code is extremely portable . |
| 14 | Ultra sees the link being used to connect RS/6000s to ES/9000 mainframes for applications so that the workstation can analyse large mainframe-resident data sets , and for clustering RS/6000s . |
| 15 | However , they require the cuts to be made to high standards of accuracy so that the transition is made smoothly . |
| 16 | In the Odonata and Orthoptera , however , the wing-pads in the later immature instars have twisted about their points of attachment so that the costal margins lie dorsally and the hind wings cover the fore wings . |
| 17 | The lime was mixed with flowers of sulphur so that the walls would give off sulphurous fumes when they got warm . |
| 18 | It should provide the basis for costing alternative courses of action so that the resource implications of decisions can be assessed . |
| 19 | He strengthened the forces holding the gateway fortresses and initiated the system of rotating units to the forts in succession so that the forces holding these valuable citadels would always be fresh and near to full strength . |
| 20 | February 1945 , and Stalin then agreed to allow free elections in Poland so that the London Poles would have a chance to form a new Polish government , but that agreement was never implemented . |
| 21 | The second volume is illustrated with a judicious selection of new and archival photographs so that past and present states of individual works can be compared , but the bulk of the volume contains over 500 documents with commentary so that the primary sources can now be easily consulted . |
| 22 | The way to the front door was of long , unevenly sunken slabs of concrete so that the path was little more than a series of stepping stones . |