Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've got a case here that worries me , and I wondered if there were any parallels . ’ |
| 2 | And the five main points that are covered is whether it 's organized for the benefit of its members , which partly comes into that , but it goes a bit beyond that I think . |
| 3 | She smiled , and did n't care a bit then that when it came to leading Travis up the garden path , she was doing a little garden path trail-blazing herself . |
| 4 | Terry relaxed a bit now that he had made a decision . |
| 5 | Ca n't we just back it along a bit so that Andrew can you know |
| 6 | Now one of the features of Microsoft Word is that a only lets you work with text which is what is called selected and if you actually move the cursor down a bit so that it 's not at the beginning of a document and then we 'll follow our way through these various selecting text keys which are outlined in that paragraph , section three six one . |
| 7 | So that you 'd get move those round a bit so that you 'd get Say that pizza came in like that and your mum sat down there said , Right we 're having some pizza we 're going to share this out between the three of us so we all get the same sized piece . |
| 8 | And then he 'd buy a bit so that he could send a bit to the London market — not in a very big way but enough to utilize all the money he had to do what he was doing . |
| 9 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |
| 10 | a bit so that er they could n't |
| 11 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 12 | Oh yeah well maybe a bit before that these are the eighties . |
| 13 | At a level above that there is what is called machine code : one whose lines are normally instructions to add or subtract or shift the contents of whole registers ( themselves strings of binary numbers ) . |
| 14 | She rested her head against a cushion so that she could stare straight up through the network of rigging and past the light-blanched sails to where the stars wheeled their cold fire beyond the mastheads . |
| 15 | She spread her towel over a cushion so that she could lean her damp , aching head against it , then shivered as she listened to the howl of the wind outside . |
| 16 | Children need reassurance , praise and success , we need to turn every child into a winner so that they will grow into good , caring and generous adults . |
| 17 | The Scarponis harvest their crop by beating the bush with a stick so that the ripe berries fall into the conciola — the whicker basket traditionally used to collect and sieve juniper . |
| 18 | Rather , it is because , ‘ Weary of living in a continual state of war , and of enjoying liberty rendered useless by the uncertainty of preserving it , [ we ] sacrifice a part so that [ we ] might enjoy the rest of it in peace and safety ’ ( p. 11 ) . |
| 19 | The nurse pulled up the metal sides and closed them with a clang so that Dot was like a caged prisoner . |
| 20 | ‘ I do not consider that it can be said that at the moment of striking the child , he [ the father ] had the necessary evil intent or wilfulness to justify a finding either that he assaulted the child or that he wilfully ill-treated her . |
| 21 | ‘ You are determined to wallow in self-pity again , determined to think me a whore so that you can return to the bottle , and blame all women , and not yourself , that you are frightened to face life . |
| 22 | The software packages allow for bar charts and pictograms to be easily incorporated into the body of a report , while a high-quality laser printer doubles as a photocopier so that large numbers of perfect copies can be easily produced . |
| 23 | There is a ministry here that theologians and biblical scholars owe to the Church , to develop a hermeneutics more widely accessible to ordinary intelligent people today . |
| 24 | Over it all he flung the coarse black cloak of a Bulgar shepherd , and placed on his head a Bulgar 's black fur cap with high points , so that his own mother would not have known him ; and he took his weapons and mounted the famous horse Koulash , on whom Peter had fastened a bearskin so that he would not be recognized . |
| 25 | Darting Grimm a cautioning glance , Jaq paid off the hired guards in local Voronovs , plus a retainer so that they would continue on call if need be . |
| 26 | A retainer so that they could have , that man could n't go in another job |
| 27 | It might be possible , using the latest technology , to build a computer today that could put scores on a million positions a second ; such a machine would need more the 30 years to look five moves ahead . |
| 28 | The information is fed into a computer so that when an inquiry is made to the centralised reservation service number the customer can be directed to the hotels with the available type of accommodation in the area they require . |
| 29 | Well the light has got to come off and you 've got to drop a perpendicular so that you know , cut the paper straight , it helps if you put it up straight instead of wonky . |
| 30 | Figure 18.9(a) and ( b ) have general illumination , ( a ) with a relatively long exposure so that details of the instability are blurred and ( b ) as a flash so that an instantaneous pattern is seen . |