Example sentences of "[adj] so [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — not German , Spanish so that I can learn flamenco songs in Spanish . |
| 2 | Later she mastered Braille , learned to type and later took lessons from a teacher for the deaf so that she could go to school , then college and later spent her life lecturing all over the world . |
| 3 | It is essential that these councils are set up as soon as possible so that they may start work on all the detailed arrangements and consultations that will be necessary if a smooth transition to the new funding system is to be ensured . |
| 4 | It is helpful if trainers have as much information as possible so that they can set the context for trainees at the time of the viewing . |
| 5 | But the partisan warfare went on : Walter Long and his PPS , Sir William Bull ( who had been on the Conference himself ) , reacted angrily to complaints from the agents and suggested that the professional organizers wanted to keep the system as complicated as possible so that they could keep their pay and privileges . |
| 6 | There is a great demand from universities , polytechnics , further education colleges and sixth form colleges to implement the reforms as quickly as possible so that we may avoid the damaging effect on morale that delays and uncertainties could cause . |
| 7 | If you wish to take up these lessons ( which will carry on throughout the year ) please let me know as soon as possible so that we can arrange the groups . |
| 8 | Whether you are moving to another part of the country or going abroad let us know as soon as possible so that we can publicise details of your property to maximum effect . |
| 9 | I have done my best to give as much time as possible to the debate yesterday and today , including making my answers to business questions as short as possible so that we can get on with the debate . |
| 10 | I urge people to talk to us as quickly as possible so that we can have meaningful discussions in the EC . |
| 11 | Please arrange for the solicitor to come as soon as possible so that I can sign the necessary papers . |
| 12 | So then he sank onto the floor , to make himself as small as possible so that he could wait out the agony . |
| 13 | In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible . |
| 14 | The slapping block can also knock the incoming punch sideways , but the blocking hand must be retrieved as quickly as possible so that it can act as a guard . |
| 15 | intended to stay , because the immediate reaction to something like that happening is n't necessarily erm , all bad , I mean people are quite glad that they are still alive and they 're quite prepared to put up with the possible fallout of the consequences of that so that they can stay in their own homes . |
| 16 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 17 | say we 'd be , you know , be fiddle around and get to ninety six I would then turn and say to them , I will give you five hundred pounds I will knock five hundred off that so that you can put in a proper shower tray and screen |
| 18 | We saw the obstacle course where the dogs learn to imagine they are six feet tall so that they can keep their blind owners safe from hurting themselves on low objects . |
| 19 | Spinal cord injuries have cruel way of leaving your mind intact so that you can think long and hard about the way you wanted to live ’ . |
| 20 | This should be laid to the side intact so that you can restore it to its original place when the hole is refilled once the digging is completed . |
| 21 | The search for plurality both evaluates the text and yet leaves it intact so that it can yield more possibilities . |
| 22 | mm , mm yeah , better put that one in as well , you need to put them in proper so that you can get it closed |
| 23 | " I wish things had been different so that we could have made love just once . |
| 24 | Although references to the presence of black people are available from the Roman period onward , especially in the early sixteenth century , the most famous of the early documented references is the arrival in 1555 of a group of five Africans , brought here by a merchant to be taught English so that they could return to Africa to act as interpreters for British traders . |
| 25 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 26 | Try to plot the result on approximately the same scale as figure 9.10 so that you can compare the result with the economy in general . |
| 27 | Contact a Family want to amass independent evidence that children are usually clean and dry at night younger than this so that they can put the case for more generous help for handicapped children . |
| 28 | The British Rail chairman , Sir Bob Reid , said last night : ‘ We have contacted Mr Knapp for urgent discussions and BR management are meeting him tomorrow with a view to finding a way through this so that we can avoid disruption to passengers . |
| 29 | We will continue to do this so that we can trade as efficiently as possible on our resorts in Spain and the Canary Islands . |
| 30 | Well I 'd like to see a very open report , and that 's why I Mr , and I 'd like him to look at all the options , we 're deferring this so that we can see what 's possible , you know , , perhaps Hanson Trust would like to come along and offer us fifty million pounds for it , that 'd be a fair deal would n't it , perhaps somebody else would do that . |