Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers . |
| 2 | This is partly due to the fact that reservoir construction is incomplete , many are unsafe and the water-distribution systems are often incomplete or inadequate so that water can not reach the fields . |
| 3 | Are there aspects of training that you find to have been missing or superficial now that you have had the chance of putting your technical skill to the test ? |
| 4 | Not only that , but on hatching , the young cuckoo throws out the host species ' own eggs or young so that it has no competition for the foster parents ' time and attention . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Malta 's reconnaissance aircraft were out looking for Axis convoys bound for Tripoli or Benghazi so that the island 's bombers might strike at them and disrupt the flow of supplies and reinforcements to Rommel 's command . |
| 6 | Overcoming this Catch 22 has cost modern fusion research billions of dollars so far , using arrays of magnets as big as houses in order to contain the fuel at temperatures ten times hotter even than those in the centre of the Sun , and making it dense enough and stable enough that a self-sustaining reaction can occur . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the first triticale was far too tall and weak so that it ‘ lodged ’ ( is flattened ) in a storm , and kernels in contact with the earth soon rotted . |
| 8 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 9 | Instead of Greece they went to Wyvis Hall because Adam was broke and Mary was close to broke because that first time it had been so beautiful and peaceful and private there that you could hardly see what advantages Greece would have had over it . |
| 10 | Its end is both sticky and muscular so that a toad can use it first to grasp a worm or a slug and then to carry it bodily back to the mouth . |
| 11 | Only the grip of his hand on her arm joined their bodies together , yet the union seemed complete and total so that she was no longer a separate entity . |
| 12 | May we be helpful and reliable so that other people can trust in us and find our friendship valuable . |
| 13 | The atmosphere filters out most of the gamma and X-radiation so that the amount reaching ground level from space is virtually zero , and astronomers who seek to measure these short-wave radiations must send their telescopes into space . |
| 14 | The church is high and light so that the vista from narthex to eastern apse is clear and uninterrupted . |
| 15 | " This Meeting consider themselves authorised to regulate the practice to be hereafter adopted in Smithies — and direct now that he who comes to the smithy first prepared for work shall have preference in finishing all his work of every kind before any other can pretend to interfere . " |
| 16 | I think it was copied from Victoria , Victoria had a lot of influence upon women obviously , she had a lot of children ; women too , women , apart from the fact there was no effective contraception , it was the duty of woman to bear a lot of children so that they could carry on the line , which was also why woman had to be very chaste and pure so that man could be sure that the son that she produced was actually his legitimate heir . |
| 17 | ‘ It can become over-bureaucratic and ritualistic so that the words and the jargon take over . |
| 18 | The matrix is designed to be flexible and adaptable so that it can readily be adjusted to respond to needs identified by users . |
| 19 | The result of his planning so far is what he calls ‘ the R&D Initiative for the NHS ’ — something that he recognises must be visible and simple so that he can present it ‘ succinctly ’ to boardrooms and to nonspecialist health professionals , such as managers . |
| 20 | In fact it has been so hot and humid today that I have had to get an electric fan and put it on in my room . |
| 21 | And fortunate too that he should be so much in love … |
| 22 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |
| 23 | It is almost certain that he would have had to take evasive action to miss Roddymoor 's houses and likely too that he tried to make a pond to douse the licking flames . |
| 24 | In principle it is impossible because skills are by their nature totally integrated and interactive so that they can not meaningfully be separated into independent parts . |
| 25 | The colour of the team 's socks , until 1927 black with thin red and white stripes , was altered to a more distinctive blue and white so that the players could recognize their colleagues more easily without looking up . |
| 26 | Most of the pages in the book have been specially designed in black and white so that children can fill in and complete the illustrations themselves . |
| 27 | Plumage pinkish-cinnamon ; tail and rounded wings strongly barred black and white so that in flight looks like huge round-winged black and white moth . |
| 28 | It appeared exactly the same — its walls hung with innumerable paintings , prints and photographs , their frames dull with years , their glass wavy and opaque so that the subjects had lost whatever initial impact they had and were now just pictures collecting dust . |
| 29 | May we be caring and considerate so that other people trust us and feel proud to have us for friends . |
| 30 | I got out , feeling alone and rootless now that he had let go of my hand . |