Example sentences of "[adv] that he can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He wants us to be with Him , so that He can show us His Love .
2 A MAN accused of having sex with a 15-year-old schoolgirl walked free yesterday — so that he can marry her .
3 In the Sheriff Court , there are fourteen days to enter appearance , but to do so here it is necessary to produce to the Sheriff Clerk the Service Copy Writ so that he can satisfy himself from when the fourteen days is calculated .
4 And with divers on long bottom times , the supervisor needs them to return quickly to the basket , so that he can recover them for in-water decompression .
5 It is not enough to have a new idea ; the discoverer has to know the field within which the new idea is to be applied , so that he can evaluate its significance , and test the worth of the new insight .
6 Make sure that he has in front of him the names of new members of the committee , so that he can welcome them .
7 He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God .
8 I want Bob to become well known , too , so that he can liberate himself from me . ’
9 Participant observation , then , is an attempt to put both observer and observed on the same side by making the former a member of the group so that he can experience what they experience and work within their frame of reference .
10 His friends and colleagues gave him a memorable send off and presented him with binoculars ( for his bird watching ) , a leather writing case ( so that he can drop us a line from far off places ) and a couple of brandy glasses ( empty — unfortunately ) .
11 And I said Mark 's here so that he can switch it switch it off at nights .
12 The result of his planning so far is what he calls ‘ the R&D Initiative for the NHS ’ — something that he recognises must be visible and simple so that he can present it ‘ succinctly ’ to boardrooms and to nonspecialist health professionals , such as managers .
13 ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ .
14 Philip Gould ( right ) : his underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place .
15 It seems to me that he ca n't be that unhappy because he 's currently managing twelve vacancies deliberately , in order to produce underspend so that he can re-surface his car park , maintain privileged restaurants for his erm , senior officers , chauffeur driven car for himself and build a new hangar for his helicopter .
16 He 's got his own skateboard ramp in his back garden and he video tapes what he does so that he can watch what he 's doing wrong and all the rest of it .
17 Melvyn Hayes played the younger son who wants to give up technical college and the chance of a job as an engineer so that he can fulfil his literary ambitions .
18 Just leave it there in front of him so that he can eat it if he wants it Charlotte
19 A three-times World speedway champion has been taking motorbike lessons … so that he can pass his test .
20 I told Bernard to infiltrate the team so that he can keep us posted on their movements .
21 If the patient can get into the kneeling position and then balance on one knee while bringing the other leg forward , so that he can lever himself onto a chair , he will feel confident that he can always get up , even if he is alone at home .
22 Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’
23 Ackroyd includes the epigram ( which sounds more Wildean than Dickensian ) simply so that he can disprove it , but these free-form gobbets never look like more than irrelevant scratchings of a creative itch .
24 Tie Me Down ! , in which he played a less-than-bright former psychiatric patient who kidnaps a B-movie actress so that he can prove his love to her .
25 And for next time I 'll get some erm a special set of tables for him a lot easier to learn so that he can learn his tables and he 'll only have to learn about half of them and then he 'll know all of them .
26 whether the girl standing on the opposite side of Highgate Hill ( or Highgate West Hill ) with the long dark hair blowing forwards over her shoulder will turn so that he can see her face ; and if so , whether the face will be the revelation that the long dark hair promises ; and what a face would have to be like to be the revelation that one always expects …
27 whether the girl standing on the opposite side of the crossroads , with her face hidden by the long dark hair falling over her shoulders as she waits to cross the road , head turned to watch the oncoming traffic , will look straight ahead so that he can see her face : and if so , whether it will fulfil his hopes ; and whether the fulfilment of his hopes would in itself be a kind of disappointment .
28 The sender now faces the receivers so that he can see their reactions and they are allowed to ask questions to which he will reply .
29 If you look at any good policeman , you will notice that he always walks facing the traffic , so that he can see what is coming towards him and is not taken by surprise .
30 The speaker should feel comfortable with the lectern 's height and it must be positioned so that he can see his notes .
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