Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] so that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Naval Reserve is trying to get the ministry 's decision overturned so that the new minesweepers can play an effective rôle in war . |
| 2 | ‘ He ca n't stay there all winter , ’ said Libby as they slipped out early , the house having been woken by their father getting up , trying to pull his boots on , shutting the dogs in the boiler shed so that they would not follow . |
| 3 | A further complication may be that any sideslipping to correct for drift may cause the ASI to under-read so that the speed may have to be judged . |
| 4 | On Monday morning he drove the car to work so that he could show his colleagues the slightly dented bumper . |
| 5 | A vital feature of this project is that it was not merely an action project with research added on , but action designed so that it could be researched . |
| 6 | He says transport is very very cheap for firms and it 's been made cheaper by successive governments building more roads to help freight and also by raising the weight limits so that we 've got bigger and bigger lorries . |
| 7 | Payments given to employees who have to replace children 's school uniforms or pay subsistence costs so that children can continue their education in the old location are usually listed separately from disturbance allowances in company relocation policies . |
| 8 | You have no idea of how much coal is needed to keep a small grate going so that one might cook . ’ |
| 9 | Briefly , the organisation British Actors ' Equity exists so that only bona fide members of the profession may apply for work : and those members must abide by the contractual rulings established by the Union in negotiation with managements in theatre , television and film . |
| 10 | The suppression of to has the effect of leaving no distance between the request and the action requested so that the actualization of the request is represented as carrying with it the realization of what is asked . |
| 11 | There is a previewer provided so that you can see what each of the styles looks like in combination with any of the 12 slide templates . |
| 12 | Finally the settling time is the time taken for oscillation to decay so that the system is within 5% of the target . |
| 13 | The best way of preventing scale , however , is to replace the cylinder with an indirect one where the same water is circulated round and round the ‘ primary ’ circuit ( the one which passes through the boiler ) which , once it has given up its chemical salts , is in effect softened so that no more will be deposited . |
| 14 | There was no distraction other than a poignant roll of rags in which a baglady scuffled , and snow fell so that one could almost smell the cold . |
| 15 | A US$5,900 million development fund would be set up to help domestic industry modernize so that its products could compete with new imports . |
| 16 | Two motifs side by side would look good , especially if the right-hand side was knitted as shown and the left-hand side reversed so that one image mirrored the other . |
| 17 | She told herself she wanted to have her photograph taken so that she could send it to Aunt Sarah , but really it was for herself . |
| 18 | Bringing her mind back to the keys she suggested having a photograph taken so that there would be a record of them if it was ever needed . |
| 19 | He took this in suddenly one morning as he was charging a girl the duty on a camera , hitting the thought like an air pocket and ludicrously yawning at the same time with his mouth shut so that the girl noticed his face lengthening like a mule 's . |
| 20 | Like the professional illusionists , it was a case of hypnosis , part entertainment , part belief , keeping the moment of interruption suspended so that no one asked for fear of not hearing all of the tale . |
| 21 | By his order dated 12 May 1992 Waite J. directed that in the interim pending a further hearing in the events that ( 1 ) J. 's medical condition changed so that his life was threatened but was capable of being prolonged by intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( 2 ) he was at that time in the health authority 's care and ( 3 ) the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority were to cause such measures , including artificial ventilation , to be applied to J. for so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 22 | It may also be appropriate to record the decision made so that all involved in the patient 's case may know . |
| 23 | Is the text or part of the text written so that a reader will benefit in a future encounter with a work of art ? |
| 24 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 25 | He finds that although the globular bodies of the histone molecules no longer contact the DNA of heavily transcribed genes , their charged tails still do , leading him to suggest that they remain tethered by their tails while the polymerase passes so that they can rapidly ‘ snap back ’ into their former structure . |
| 26 | These groups move in extensive and exclusive home ranges so that the freely forming parties so common in chimps do not occur . |
| 27 | Later most post-mills were supported by a round house made of bricks ; and the buck or body of the mill raised so that the arms did not sweep as near to the ground . |
| 28 | They are manufactured from artificial grass that is sand based so that they are more receptive to well- hit shots . |
| 29 | SuperCalc 5.5 has extended the use of fonts in printing spreadsheet ranges so that the facilities that were previously limited to laser printers now apply to most dot matrix printers . |
| 30 | For example , if a cell doubles its discharge rate under one set of conditions but quadruples under another , does that difference affect how subsequent levels in the circuit respond so that one group of cells is excited by the first set of conditions but a second group is activated by the second set ? |