Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 So we need to build our systems to meet the requirements we have today because we could n't justify more and yet we have to build in the scale scaleability so that systems can grow to meet the growing requirements which are almost inevitable .
2 Yes er that , that 's no problem but what I would like to do is obviously keep er face to face er contact so that we can explain the thing fully because you may have other questions that you want to ask once you 've actually read it so therefore I 'm on hand hopefully to answer all these questions
3 If other people have had other experiences , if if they share erm , er Nelly 's er belief there that there is nothing that can be done about it ? 's the number to dial and we 'll have some more calls in a moment .
4 If agreement on the price can be reached with the target 's board then that will usually secure their recommendation and the offer will be made accordingly .
5 This means pressing the child 's chest so that the blood — with its vital oxygen — is pumped around the body and up to the brain .
6 Rescuing a piece of the frill from the dress , Ellie cut it to the shape she wanted , attached it with pins to the back of the headband , laid it down , picked up Terry 's brush , backcombed the other girl 's hair so that it stood further out from her head , giving a similarity of the style she thought she should have , carefully arranged the head-dress , and turned Terry back to the mirror .
7 Overall , I believe Stalin planned Kirov 's murder so that he could continue the purges , with a justifiable excuse to back him up .
8 It is important that the nurse reports her observations of the patient 's condition so that electrolyte disturbances are detected early and treated .
9 They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet .
10 I 'll borrow my brother 's Lambretta so that we can just sit for a whole hour and then I 'll drive you home .
11 A condom ( rubber , sheath , johnnie , French letter ) is a thin rubber sheath which fits over the man 's penis so that semen does not penetrate the woman 's vagina or anus during penetrative sex .
12 Tony felt that one important factor had been the change in his father 's attitude so that he now seemed to understand how he felt .
13 The summer evenings were getting shorter and she was lighting the wick of the lamp on her husband 's desk so that he could see to write his sermon .
14 This is possible as it is obvious in Mark 's Gospel especially that the disciples did not really understand what the Messiahship of Jesus meant .
15 As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist .
16 Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach .
17 When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on .
18 It was for Papa 's sake only that I ate again .
19 The industrial buyer is therefore acutely aware that he or she is building-in , or using , someone else 's product so that the final customer 's demands can be met .
20 Further pressure came from Poland 's announcement yesterday that it had stopped sending home East Germans who crossed the border illegally with the aim of reaching West Germany .
21 to shape Bill 's behaviour so that he is positive and helpful .
22 This was not how to behave to your young son , but there was something about Steve 's behaviour now that drove her on .
23 She asked the shopkeeper 's name so that she would know to whom to send her servant .
24 Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh .
25 Rose Hill could do well in the women 's event now that last year 's champion from Denmark , Connie Hansen , has decided not to take part this time .
26 For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward .
27 And he launched a great , cracking blow at Finn 's head so that Finn reeled and staggered , clutching the bannisters for support .
28 ‘ Sam 's going to a new school , ’ Bella said , and time was oddly foreshortened in Albert 's head so that two or three minutes of silence passed between them and he thought it only a second .
29 If the pinches of flake were thrown over any other bream 's head then that fish would veer to one side , but only the bream immediately alongside him would react , and then only to get out of the way .
30 Elsie 's wall so that the water does n't come down here , down the wall what you need to do is put the , lead sheeting chipping out from the , the block , chip , chip into the , the rendering , put lead sheeting into it , cement the rendering back in again
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