Example sentences of "[adv] so that [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 2 | Following the sale of the cargo and the payment of the net proceeds , U.S.$2,353,991.95 , into court , nothing further was done in the action until 16 January 1992 when Crossman Block issued a summons as ‘ solicitors for the Republic of Somalia ’ applying that the Republic of Somalia be joined as a party to the action , that the buyers of the cargo be also joined , presumably so that they could be bound by any decision of the court , and that |
| 3 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 4 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 5 | Willie , meanwhile , not only remained silent during these conversations , but picked his berries slowly so that they might forget that he was there , but he reckoned without Zach . |
| 6 | Trent turned his body slowly so that he could get his hands on the rope . |
| 7 | and you bring it down , and if there 's anything wrong you 'll feel it slowly so that it may click , you do one side and then the other , right the old fashioned treatment for erm dislocated hip was double nappies , er do you know what that ? |
| 8 | He stretched out his arms and then turned slowly so that I could view the recycled Archie from all angles . |
| 9 | It will keep you here a little so that you may have time to make your plans . ’ |
| 10 | ABBERLEY : Would you mind turning your cardiograph around a little so that I can see it ? |
| 11 | be getting a result if you stepped in with another four phones , new lines , you 'd have the use of these four lines for three month , to generate business before you get out with first phone bill on them , right so that you could drop er the lines here if you wanted , at er , at the end of the day , it does n't matter whether you 've got one line or whether you 've got a hundred lines |
| 12 | Wordy and intellectual , with only a small chance of success : the sort of play a cynic would say that producers put on so that they can feel good . |
| 13 | A physiotherapist stated , for instance : ‘ What we want to develop in them is the motivation to try and tackle society , take it head on so that they can actually say I want to go and do this , I want to go and do something else . ’ |
| 14 | Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners . |
| 15 | Fujitsu Ltd is having to cast around feverishly for ways to cut its costs , and says it will scale back its planned development projects on semiconductors to cut costs for new production facilities : ‘ We will more carefully choose which development projects to work on so that we will sell only profitable products , ’ a spokesman told Reuters in Tokyo , adding that the effect would be to trim the number of different chip products in its line by some 20% . |
| 16 | Erm but one of the things that we , that we will need to do is actually to review the overtime for the last three months to say okay , what 's it actually been spent on so that we can start to er make sure we 've identified the reasons for it . |
| 17 | She groped around for her panties and shorts , ducking her head to put them on so that he would n't see the tears gathering in the corners of her eyes . |
| 18 | She spent hours in the stockroom , trying everything on so that she could describe each dress to Louise . |
| 19 | Tony and I get up as quickly as we can , brushing the snow free from clothes before putting them on so that it will not melt with the heat from our bodies . |
| 20 | They were vertebrates that learned to live out of water paradoxically so that they could also continue to live in water . |
| 21 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 22 | Will the Chancellor of the Duchy reconsider his decision and pay a visit to the north-west , especially so that he can meet the 800 people a week who have lost their job since this time last year as a result of the Government 's policies ? |
| 23 | The winning artists were presented with their cash prizes by John Wood Group PLC chairman and managing director , Ian Wood and guest judge Ralph Steadman , who stayed on especially so that he could attend the presentation . |
| 24 | But not so much so that we 'd junk a permanent commitment to a man in order to keep on our job . |
| 25 | Consequently , the man in the Kaduna street who watches an NTV report , hears the same story over the state radio and then reads about it in three or four daily papers receives several interpretations of the same event which are very different from one another — so much so that they may appear to be reports of separate events . |
| 26 | So much so that they would rather live in a UK which seems set to have permanent Tory government than an independent Scotland which would almost certainly be Socialist . |
| 27 | Healthy children have lots of energy as a rule , so much so that they can wear out their poor unhealthy parents ! |
| 28 | There was , of course , a diversity of tenures — so much so that it can never be assumed that the customs of any two manors were identical , or even similar , unless perhaps they formed part of the same feudal honour , for example the barony of Lewes in Sussex , which had evolved a set of common customs . |
| 29 | Thus , organisations are open systems , and transactions across the organisational boundary take place continuously , so much so that it can be difficult in practice to define exactly where an organisation stops and its environment begins . |
| 30 | Because the device drivers operate at DOS level , the new drives appear as additional drives to the client machine — in both DOS and Windows — so much so that you could be forgiven for thinking that they were part of your machine . |