Example sentences of "[adv] that it [verb] and " in BNC.

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1 Saltglazing involves introducing salt into the kiln at a very high temperature so that it volatilises and coats the clay .
2 The female releases them by reaching forward with her hind leg , inserting her longest toe into the sac entrance and pulling it so that it enlarges and her young are able to clamber out .
3 But then to do it well , so that it all sounds extremely natural — so that it flows and sounds effortless — that requires a long preparation , which everyone at La Scala was happy to give it .
4 Remove a small quantity of butter from the fridge so that it softens and is easier to spread , then spread it very thinly on bread .
5 The pluralist perspective makes no attempt to criticise British politics , and it chooses to bend democratic theory in a conservative direction so that it justifies and defends the established order .
6 They then fan the water so that it evaporates and in doing so lowers the temperature .
7 Lavender is slightly tender , and will be better able to survive if grown in a warm sunny position and dry , well-drained soil so that it ripens and matures thoroughly before winter .
8 Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place .
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