Example sentences of "so that they [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be formalized into a rule when dealing with contingency data : Construct the proportions so that they sum to one within the categories of the explanatory variable . |
| 2 | The idea is to throw an opponent so that they land on their back , fairly hard . |
| 3 | There is always the tendency , therefore , to adjust ideas so that they conform to what is conventional and customary . |
| 4 | So saying , with all her strength she flung them at him , so that they scythed across his desk , scattering letters and papers . |
| 5 | She achieves birth , instead , by bracing her body against the ground with her forelegs and then inflating her lungs so that they swell into her abdomen and squeeze the young out by pneumatic pressure . |
| 6 | It may have been enacted beforehand by the witnesses , so that they testify to what they have actually witnessed ; alternatively , the organiser of the mock trial may simply have given to each witness a statement of his evidence , which he is expected to remember . |
| 7 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |