Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | But make sure the sheeting is easily detachable so that it does not prevent you getting through the window in case of fire . |
2 | The pleonasm can be cured by making the dependent item more specific so that it makes a net semantic contribution to the phrase : my patriarchal uncle ( notice that adding specificity to the head has no effect : ? my male maternal uncle ) . |
3 | At a push boiling oil on its own will do the job , but a typical mixture has corrosive properties and is sticky so that it adheres to exposed flesh . |
4 | If drilling use a very sharp drill and hold it straight , drilling onto wood if possible so that it does n't crack the jar |
5 | This is somewhat like making the target broader so that it becomes easier to hit . |
6 | The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design . |
7 | The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design . |
8 | It 's interesting actually that it says on all the outsides of all the tapes Aston Business School so I 'd just like to say for the benefit of the tape recorder and the British National Corpus , this is where the Business School ends and this is where Psychology takes over . |
9 | In their four meetings she had never questioned him about his job , had seldom mentioned the power station except , as on this afternoon , to complain half seriously that it spoilt the view . |
10 | Pei 's openness uses the outside so that it seems as inviting as the interior . |
11 | Always shrimps , bread and butter , a bowl of mustard and cress and a rich , light , golden sponge-cake baked that morning in the oven with the Sunday joint so that it had a faint savour of burnt meat fat . |
12 | He had lopped off the leaves and twigs at a joint so that it made a very crude crutch . |
13 | This particular one is called a rail turn and two half hitches it needs to be tight so that it does n't come undone when we 're out there . |
14 | The mountainside , climbing steeply from the head of the meadow , was concave so that it formed a natural amphitheatre cupping a quarry face . |
15 | It is the extraordinary manner in which the pathological imagery has simply been inverted so that it forms the basis of a pastoral view which asserts the strength and durability of black family life and , in present circumstances , retreats from confronting the difficult issues which result in black children arriving in care in the first place . |
16 | But I did n't like working at Johnny Walkers so I think it was quite a good thing at the time , although I did n't really like it I 'm glad now that it happened cos I 'd probably still be working in there . |
17 | In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ . |
18 | Be quite firm so that it forms a solid chocolate loaf in the tin , but do try not to break the biscuit . |
19 | Extend your answer to problem 1.6 so that it deals with any number of input devices . |
20 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
21 | Extra-Statutory Concession D2 has also been amended as far as an individual is concerned so that it does not apply to a settlor of a resident or non-resident " settlor-interested " settlement . |
22 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
23 | What research does is to reformulate the familiar so that it assumes a new significance . |
24 | Pin a triangle next to the first so that it overlaps slightly . |
25 | The adoption of these policies would narrow the ‘ official ’ differential in criminal behaviour between the disreputable poor and the respectable middle-class so that it approximated more closely the actual differences in criminal behaviour — at least criminal behaviour as defined by the state . |
26 | Following evidence produced at the Special Commissioners ' hearing , W purported to revise the accounting period by virtue of s 247(8) , TA 1970 so that it ran from 1 February 1977 to 31 January 1978 , rather than 25 October 1977 . |
27 | He seemed familiar , so familiar indeed that it took time to sink in . |
28 | Bran cereals and muesli are rather more weighty , so here people tend to serve out more than an ounce just so that it looks sufficient . |
29 | The falsificationist must now try to make his hypothesis more precise so that it becomes more readily falsifiable . |
30 | On some days the smoke is so thick here that it obscures the sun . |