Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , it was agreed that we would begin by harmonising coding standards for personnel so that data on the major fields of interest would be coded in the same way by all personnel systems across the company . |
| 2 | We now have a general date for elections in nineteen ninety four and when that date is formally agreed , many sanctions will go and we 're already preparing because Cosatu and the South African Council of Churches believe that there should be a code for investments so that investments go to help uplift people and indeed tomorrow I have to go to Holland for exactly such a conference called by the World Council of Churches and the South African churches . |
| 3 | This enables the data to be searched for patterns so placing theories within the constraints of empirical evidence . |
| 4 | Ontario for cities so full of life |
| 5 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |
| 6 | I 'm sure that young children like stories about giants so much because that 's what adults seem like to them . |
| 7 | ( Incidentally , most bureau will buy in typefaces for clients so long as either the client pays for it or there is going to be sufficient volume of work to justify it . ) |
| 8 | All the er , all the units are let , we 've had two , we 've had notice of two terminations coming up , but we have actually got a waiting list for units so I do n't think we 'll have any problem in filling those . |
| 9 | The survey was carried out before the implementation of the new grant system for adaptations so could not assess its effectiveness ( see Morris , 1991 , for an assessment of the new system ; Royal Association of Disability and Rehabilitation , 1992 ) . |
| 10 | Scarlet was beginning to believe she did it for reasons of her own , proselytizing for converts so as not to feel so lonely , so as to feel assured of the validity of her views , surrounded by like-minded people . |
| 11 | Lorrimer said through lips so stiff that the words sounded cracked : |
| 12 | In Italy money used to be paid for crickets so that they could be released in the garden to add their harmony and endless cheerfulness to it . |
| 13 | Anyway , Simes , the Golden Girls are on , which is full of intellectual stimulation for dads so I 'm afraid I 'm gon na put the T V on now . |
| 14 | Thus in the Porifera and some Coelenterates the fluid is propelled through channels so that the food and oxygen it contains reach every part of the body . |
| 15 | This month the Suzy Lamplugh Trust is launching a training scheme for companies so that staff can learn how to deal with potentially dangerous situations . |
| 16 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 17 | Erm well it depends erm the , the economics of power production are extremely erm er complex and , and t to a certain extent arbitrary erm and erm I mean there , there are various ways that the government can actually get out of this fix because obviously it 's caused a lot of concern to close the , the mines , and one is actually to , to subsidize the mines and put the price on to electricity bills er the other is to subsidize the mines er but pay for it out of the , out of , er out of taxes so it 's a basic , instead of paying for it on your electricity bill , you pay for it on your tax bill , yeah . |
| 18 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
| 19 | You have the right to accurate , informative labeling of products so that you can make your own decisions about what to buy . |
| 20 | — To ascertain the relative profitability of products so that organizations can make decisions regarding the mix of products . |
| 21 | It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far . |
| 22 | His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation . |
| 23 | It needs a very large orchestra and I needed a lot of rehearsals so that I could have time to explain the piece fully to the orchestra . |
| 24 | Right er plenty of minutes so I 'll , I 'll quickly read them out , and then if anyone 's got any matters arising they know what |
| 25 | The value of this constant has been chosen so that the lists of collocations so produced are comparable in size with the definitions taken from machine-readable dictionaries . |
| 26 | From the twentieth century point of view it can be appreciated that naturally occurring compounds contain what , from the point of view of theoretical chemistry , is an arbitrary and theoretically uninteresting mixture of isotopes so that , as F. Soddy remarked , the painstaking endeavour of the nineteenth century chemists ‘ appears as of as little interest and significance as the determination of the average weight of a collection of bottles , some of them full and some of them more or less empty ’ . |
| 27 | There are plenty of good reasons why nationalism thirsts for identification with ethnicity , if only because it provides the historical pedigree ‘ the nation ’ in the great majority of cases so obviously lacks . |
| 28 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 29 | Individuals belong to a variety of groups so any classification is subject to the perceptions of the members involved . |
| 30 | I had to repeat it a number of times so that there could be no misunderstanding . |