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

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1 Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye .
2 I suggested a second or so ago that the ordinary reader , unsure of what to make of the shifting realities of Joyce 's writing , might defensively assume that no such hesitations would trouble the experienced reader , but that is far from being a homogeneous class .
3 It was to take several years and unexpected pressures before general progress in this direction was achieved , but it is important to remember that there were views being canvassed in the CNAA and more widely that pointed towards a possible further ‘ collective resolution ’ .
4 This is to ensure that the gully does not get blocked by leaves and other debris and also so that the action of the water gushing into the gully is to clean it .
5 Some people use this instinctively in their windsurfing in stronger winds and especially now that seat and waist harnesses are widely used .
6 John , like Clement , worked hard to secure the king at home and abroad so that he might one day embark on the crusade : the barons , the Scots , and the French were all pressured by John on Edward 's behalf .
7 remember ours , it would not be flat smells of cat but not only that if it weed on me carpet as much as I love it I might get a
8 Secondly , the answers will only reveal any proposals for new roads and so on that have actually been placed on the council 's register .
9 Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ?
10 you know as I say I 've not worked in this division but I I know that these have been fully sold , that 's the sort of money and once again that has to be done in three weeks .
11 It 's an electro-mechanical device , with contacts and so on that tend to corrode and all the rest of it , and that sort of thing can be very conveniently replaced by a small microcomputer .
12 It was only two years or so later that he died — TB or summat .
13 Europe has to fulfil its own environmental responsibilities for its own sake and also so that the Third World can develop without irreversible damage to the global environment .
14 sta sta staff comment comes out of there and that bit goes up then you have general skills and abilities and then below that you have a wider box which just says comments which will include a staff comment and may include a pupil comment as well cos because it 's signed by both at the bottom .
15 So , take your fingers from the outside and move them in towards the nose and round so that you do n't stretch the skin even more .
16 But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way .
17 If the amount of the capital sum exceeds the amount of income available , then the settlor will be taxed in the next year and subsequent years up to the amount of income available in the next year or subsequent years but never so that the tax liabilities exceed the amount of the capital sum that was paid out directly or indirectly to the settlor .
18 It may be , following the Directive ( art 7(e) ) , that the test is whether the knowledge existed to discover the defect and not merely that the standard tests and procedures were undertaken by the drug company concerned .
19 Not many viewers can have realised that this was a deft parody of the catastrophic visit of Mike 's ‘ uni-mates ’ a week or so ago that ended in Bron cruelly dumping him just before his psychology exam .
20 ‘ I told Anna a week or so ago that you 'd promised to visit her .
21 The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by .
22 Dr Coué , who , in the nineteenth century proclaimed the virtue of saying first thing every morning and regularly thereafter that , ‘ Every day , in every way I 'm getting better and better ’ , is enjoying a great revival .
23 She heard the noise of the start but not even that had the power to disturb her thoughts , which were totally turned inwards on to herself .
24 You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over
25 it 's not that , it 's , it 's next door but not only that I mean friends , my friends I mean
26 Clothes are made with the family 's approval and love but also so that women can look as their families wish to see them — modest , maternal , self-effacing , or just beautiful on their terms .
27 The current situation could be interpreted this way : the additional depreciation is building up capital but not so that the sewers can be replaced without the need to borrow ; rather , that the smaller future borrowing requirement will recompense future generations for the unwillingness of pre-1974 ratepayers to share the burden of the capital cost of sewers .
28 In speech , particularly in informal conversation , we plan at the point of utterance — hence the hesitations , false starts , reformulations and so on that are part and parcel of the nature of speech and that deviate in frequency only when speech becomes either highly formalised ( i.e. " frozen " , as Joos ( 1967 ) calls it ) or highly intimate .
29 A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda .
30 Improving the communication system between school and home so that all parents have the opportunity to develop a positive image of their child 's school .
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