Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , we need to identify areas of schematic knowledge which the learners will accept as independently relevant and worth acquiring so that the learning of the language is seen as the necessary means to a desired end . |
| 2 | But it is perhaps worth noticing here that firms have not been conspicuously forthcoming with offers to fund the schools , and the DES itself has had to put up considerable sums to support the first of them . |
| 3 | It is worth noticing here that we have already begun to formulate the problem in a more practical way : that we are carving out parts of the general problem which can be observed . |
| 4 | Ricardo Ellcock , the Middlesex fast bowler , plans to study in the United States for a career as an airline pilot after confirming yesterday that he is to retire from first-class cricket , as reported in Monday 's Daily Telegraph . |
| 5 | She folded her jumpers around sheets of tissue paper after ironing so that they would n't crease on the shelf . |
| 6 | This is why the head of the Basque government , Jose Antonio Ardanza , after saying recently that the Basque nationalists wanted to keep Spain governable , nevertheless added that ‘ our political reason for existence begins and ends in Euskadi , ’ the Basque land . |
| 7 | At least Carling , Moore and company are in good heart and voice , particularly after learning yesterday that the Rugby Football Union will , after all , allow the National Anthem to be played before kick-off . |
| 8 | It is worth remembering here that space time as seen from free fall would locally be a Minkowski space . |
| 9 | It is worth remembering too that the reactions of those who accept to go further and try the new are not always quiet indicators of preference . |
| 10 | For its part , pluralism adopts a restricted frame of reference and takes too much for granted so that it skates on the surface of political life and only deals with the politics of participation and the politics of satisfaction to the detriment of any consideration of other less " obvious " things : there is little that is deep and illuminating about the pluralist perspective and crucial concerns are ignored as irrelevant to politics : pluralism is less wrong than limited . |
| 11 | However section 19 permits the constable to seize anything on the premises if he has reasonable grounds for believing either that it has been obtained in consequence of the commission of an offence or that it is evidence in relation to an offence which he is investigating or any other offence . |
| 12 | If the bedroom you occupy is large enough to be turned into a comfortable bed-sitting-room , or if you have your own private sitting-room in the house , you can avoid trouble and confrontation by entertaining friends there , and that will be the end of it ; but if not , after a tactful explanation of your needs to your parent , you should get to the point of suggesting clearly that she might agree to retire to her room for a few hours sometimes when your friends come to the home ( after you have all shared a meal together first , if she wishes ) . |
| 13 | It was the school itself , and the hope of seeing again that handful of teachers who make a difference in anybody 's life . |
| 14 | At the same time , the mind must be in readiness for new ways of seeing so that it is already poised for the marvellous and even the illogical . |
| 15 | Well it may be that they do n't know how to , or that they set out such patterns of relating together that they have n't got the means of coping with it . |
| 16 | They quickly use up the yolk sac and Liquifry should be provided from the moment of hatching so that food is available when required . |
| 17 | Under this custom the colt 's owner paid a shilling over and above the actual cost of shoeing so that the men could send out for six pints of beer as a reward for the extra effort involved . |
| 18 | Do you think it 'll it 's sort of cut so that the er it fits on top of the brickwork ? |
| 19 | Your idea that the King and I would lean back in indolence , allowing Famagusta to fatten and snigger , throwing away all the months of striving so that you could save your thick skin from a fight ? ’ |
| 20 | Those who do not reach this level but are pretty good can aspire to a circuit judgeship eventually , but the chances of rising beyond that are problematical . |
| 21 | In this regard criminal law shares a problem with contract law , which adopts the ambivalent posture of holding both that the devil himself can not know the mind of man and that the state of a man 's mind is as much a question of fact as is the state of his digestion . |
| 22 | Julie Hall , Neil Kinnock 's press secretary , took the unprecedented step of stating publicly that she did not leak the name . |
| 23 | R.S. designed its relocation package to take the financial considerations out of moving so that the staff could make their work/career decisions without worrying about the costs of relocation . |
| 24 | Top Hungarians are no longer afraid of saying openly that Comecon is nearly useless now that Hungary and Poland want market reform while other Comecon members , notably East Germany , stick with state control . |
| 25 | Tottenham police are fond of saying publicly that they want to ‘ build bridges ’ with the community here . |
| 26 | That Fran had no intention of doing just that had only just struck him , and he did n't like it one little bit ! |
| 27 | It was when they were in the process of doing just that that Edward Greenwood walked in unannounced . |
| 28 | Where Federman and Sukenick replace finished story with the process of narrating so that it becomes difficult to say what their novels are ‘ about ’ , Rudolph Wurlitzer pursues a rather different task in his fiction . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , despite his vital if sometimes reluctantly assumed role in maintaining the norms of society , the psychiatrist is often in danger of under-valuing the weight of the social pressures bearing on his patient and of assuming ethnocentrically that his own and his society 's moral standards enjoy universal validity . |
| 30 | With regard to pay , the benefit to management of de-skilling so that the elements of a job are fragmented into their constituent elements is that those elemental jobs can be assigned to those with skills , and hence pay rates , to match them . |