Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After training sessions , keep any literature or handouts together with the forms so that you build up your own references to guide you . |
| 2 | These , together with marksheets and LEA reports , are produced on a turnround basis ; specific computer files are created at the point of printing the forms so that subsequent data entry can be reduced to a minimum of keystrokes . |
| 3 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 4 | The sea is calm , but such ripples as there are flick the light from the sun about and refract the view of the pebbles so that staring over the edge of the kayak is like peeing into a kaleidoscope over whose speed of rotation you have no control . |
| 5 | One reason for having that meeting is to reform the institutions so that they can cope with a second wave of new members , this time from Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 7 | I it , it was , it was alright f for people wh who were used to that sort of thing but I mean they had n't all the mechanization in the mines then that they have now . |
| 8 | Interactions are continuous and ongoing , and it is the interactions now that are important for the cohesiveness of the group . |
| 9 | Those arrangements can seriously affect the work of the courts , being concerned with assessing the needs of the courts and securing resources , organising the internal structures of the courts so that they can best deal with the caseloads arising , laying down pre-trial and trial procedures , managing the case-flow , measuring and monitoring court performance , managing court records , and planning necessary reforms to court structures and processes . |
| 10 | You will see from the graphs below that our turnover and pre-tax profit figures reached record levels last year . |
| 11 | Even if you b I I I would imagine that many of you , based on the notes alone that you 've got from here , without any reading , would probably get through So , you 've got nothing to worry about as long as you do the work . |
| 12 | But perhaps the precise reasons for its origin and the timing of its confirmation are not so important ; of greater significance is that it became a key precedent during the ensuing century for those who wished to restrict the outflow of money from the English church to the church universal and in particular to the Roman Curia ; its appeal to the interests of patrons whose intentions were thwarted or impaired by impositions on the houses so that ‘ infinite loss and disinheritance are like to ensue to the founders of the said houses and their heirs ’ was to reappear in the later statute of Provisors . |
| 13 | Another restless night followed , and she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning , concentrating hard on the illustrations so that not even a tiny corner of her mind was free to think about Julius . |
| 14 | He makes clear in an interview with the Times today that in a hung parliament his party would ‘ bargain very hard indeed ’ to stop Labour removing the £21,060 ceiling on National Insurance payments and introducing a 50p tax rate for top earners . |
| 15 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 16 | " I ca n't turn over The Times so that the pages lie flat , I ca n't fold up a map in the right creases , I ca n't draw corks , I ca n't drive in nails straight , I ca n't go into a bar and order a drink without wondering what everyone 's thinking about it , and I ca n't strike matches towards myself . |
| 17 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 18 | The best players ; but with so many good players we could alternate the groups so that no one felt they had been left out . |
| 19 | Furthermore , in practice , we are often interested in making comparisons among the strata so that it is sensible that each be well represented . |
| 20 | Maggie picked up the poker and jabbed the fire with it , rearranging the coals so that even more heat was thrown out . |
| 21 | Ayer 's position appears to be making the rules so that the theist can not win . |
| 22 | In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete . |
| 23 | The only difference is that we are setting that fact out clearly in the rules so that people know . |
| 24 | Focusing the rules so that only larger errors and the most persistent offenders will incur penalties for misdeclaration . |
| 25 | Since we 're talking about rules , what about erm Mrs Thatcher , Lady Thatcher wanting to change the rules so that a sitting Prime Minister ca n't be challenged . |
| 26 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 27 | It is important to number all of the items in the minutes so that it is easy to refer to particular items at a later date . |
| 28 | We 're very conscious of that erm and where , where we offered advice in large places where for instance , where housing where chemicals are stored and all the precautions that are needed are provided and built in , for instance stopping off the drains so that water is contained , providing sloping areas in , in the bottom of warehouses where water does n't come out , erm monitoring it telling people about it . |
| 29 | There is quite an art in scattering the pennies so that they do not hurt the children . |
| 30 | ‘ He was always moving the goalposts so that we could never anticipate what he wanted . ’ |