Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] so that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to look after our customers so that they will be around when things get better . ’ |
| 2 | Social workers have an important role in raising clients ' consciousness of the structural sources of their difficulties so that they can achieve greater influence and control over their lives . |
| 3 | AI 's human rights education work aims to inform people of their rights so that they can defend them , and those of other people , as effectively as possible . |
| 4 | Burrows and Hunter 's research indicates that many landlords are trying to force pre-1988 tenants out of their properties so that they can either move in new tenants , sell with vacant possession or sell on to other landlords . |
| 5 | He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ . |
| 6 | Where a company is controlled by its directors , its expansion strategy may outgrow the resources of its directors so that they can not maintain their percentage holding through a series of costly rights issues or placings , with a consequential dilution of that holding . |
| 7 | It must time the laying of its eggs so that its chicks hatch when caterpillars are most abundant , and most palatable . |
| 8 | Once , there must have been a single core-vessel which had lost its way or had lost the use of its warp-vanes so that it could no longer jump back into truespace . |
| 9 | Therefore I 'm afraid were going to have to pass Sue 's book around , we 'll leave the lights on and erm she 's changed the scripture of her talks so that she will be describing the picture why 'll its been passed round and could you please sort of pass it fairly quickly , I 'll be at the back and then I 'll come down into the front again , is there anyone who 's a poet ? |
| 10 | His leg thrust into the volume of her skirts so that it was hard against her pelvis , and even through the multitude of petticoats she could feel the hard , rigid evidence of his ungovernable arousal as he straddled her thigh . |
| 11 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 12 | Daisy was Fred 's bird , a freckled teenager with red tabby hair whom Arthur had entrusted with a slice of his savings so that she could open a boutique . |
| 13 | But the world of the mystic is more than a garden or harvest , we must become the painters and dyers of our thoughts so that our minds will become great landscapes . |
| 14 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 15 | It was the introduction of pulsation into their forms so that they appeared to swell and contract rhythmically . |
| 16 | We are able to enter into their sufferings so that they are no longer alone in their grief and pain . |
| 17 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 18 | More importantly , we can supply patients with their results so that they can see how effective their personal management has been . |
| 19 | When he finally moved back to lie beside her , he pulled her into his arms so that her head came to rest on his chest . |
| 20 | We want to know when customers are not satisfied with our services so that we can try to put matters right . |
| 21 | We want to know when customers are not satisfied with our services so that we can try to put matters right . |
| 22 | Because you 're spending all day together , and we 'll keep breaking you off into , in twos , into your groups so that you can learn any more about one another . |
| 23 | If you are not completely covered , hide where you blend into your surroundings so that your outline or the colour and texture of your clothes , hair and skin do n't give you away . |
| 24 | The boys were to be given a certain amount of trust in their activities so that they might have the opportunity to make themselves moral , which in turn could help them become good and valuable members of the community . |
| 25 | Alternatively , their loyalty may be captured by the career staff in their departments so that they become primarily spokespersons for , and defenders of , department policies against encroachments from elsewhere . |
| 26 | Children become frightened of soiling themselves and learn to hold in their faeces so that they become constipated . |
| 27 | At night , as they huddled round their fires , the people would murmur about the evil spirit who kicked holes in their kilns so that they had to buy their bricks from Dai Huang . |
| 28 | Clearly this would only be the case if the company was perceived as an entity distinct from its shareholders so that it followed that the company and not the shareholders would be liable for any debts . |
| 29 | ‘ And what makes you think I do n't love you back , Lindie ? ’ he whispered softly , twisting her gently in his arms so that his lips were very close to her own . |
| 30 | Shadows carved the flesh from his features so that she could see the fine lines of his skull , the hard mystery of essential bone . |