Example sentences of "[adv] that on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I swooped it so that on each pass it caught the top of the dam wall with one corner , gradually producing a nick in the sand barrier which the water was able to flow through , quickly going on to overwhelm the whole dam and the sand-house village beneath . |
| 2 | For example , it can be conditioned in a hypertonic saline solution so that on absorbing body fluids it increases in size , thus achieving a higher buckle than is possible with a non-swelling implant . |
| 3 | If this is the case then society and organisations , far from being pluralist in nature , are , in fact , elitist so that on any given issue there may be a small group that exercises a great deal of power . |
| 4 | They had a crudely-carved , regular look about them , so that on this crisp autumn morning the Wyrmberg hung over the clouds like a giant 's dovecote . |
| 5 | So much so that on several occasions when obliged to contact him on police matters , Markby had found him positively obstructive . |
| 6 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 7 | Assume there are a million retired British living abroad , enjoying the sun and the lower taxes of a grateful foreign country ; assume also that on average such a family spends £25,000 on house , furnishing , car , and so on , in order to become established abroad . |
| 8 | Our official town doctor Rozanov , himself an accoucheur , declared quite positively that on one occasion when a patient in labour was screaming and calling on the name of the Almighty , a free-thinking sally fired off like a pistol-shot by Mrs Virginsky struck such fear into the patient that delivery was greatly accelerated . |
| 9 | A big advantage of using a medium-speed film such as APE 100 is that it is fast enough for hand-held camera use but not so fast that on bright days creativity is limited by the necessary use of a small apertures or high shutter speed . |
| 10 | Discussions in the Conferences , particularly that on Political Union , were difficult and a series of uneasy compromises in particular fields was struck at Maastricht , some of which have won few supporters . |
| 11 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 12 | It declares that there is no law — no right flowing from past political decisions — apart from the law drawn from those decisions by techniques that are themselves matters of convention , and therefore that on some issues there is no law either way . |
| 13 | If he refuses to admit subsequently that on one of these occasions his moral judgement was mistaken , he is certainly contradicting himself and thus being irrational . |