Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun pl] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jamaican Director of Public Prosecutions decided to discontinue the proceedings so that the defendant could again be charged with murder . |
| 2 | The secret is to arrange the stripes so that they do not appear to be in regular order and this can be done in a number of ways . |
| 3 | He observed that the protesters did not enjoy the rights of common that had been affected , and on this basis he decided to modify the by-laws so that they could continue to apply to all the world except the commoners themselves . |
| 4 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 5 | Finding that their efforts are doomed to failure , what more natural than that they should cause the company to execute a floating charge in their favour to secure the loans so that if anything is left , after the claims of the prior chargees are satisfied , they take it rather than the unsecured creditors ? |
| 6 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 7 | The horse man used to have to go before anybody else , to feed the horses so that , and groom them , currycomb them , water them and do everything , before any of the farmers dare take them out on the fields . |
| 8 | Then I had to open the bags so that they could actually see the fish . |
| 9 | They suggested that pollution stresses combined to weaken the trees so that , when a ‘ normal ’ stress such as frost or drought came along , the tree died or went into a rapid decline , before succumbing to competition from neighbours or invasion by fungal pests or other disease organisms . |
| 10 | At once , the waiters began to reorganise the tables so that as many as possible could sit under the parasols and to hurry away the unused cushions and linen so as not to let them be soaked . |
| 11 | One reason for having that meeting is to reform the institutions so that they can cope with a second wave of new members , this time from Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | The only remedy is to regularly spray the foliage with clear water to dislodge the pests so that the fish can devour them . |
| 13 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 14 | But certainly when we in the regional office get that that advice before before we put a submission to ministers , we will of course try to reconcile the figures so that they are on a consistent basis . |
| 15 | I am now trying , in vain , to uuencode the files so that I can send them to anyone who wants them thro' mail . |
| 16 | In addition such clauses also normally give the seller the options of trying to alter the goods so that they are no longer infringing , buying the third party claimant out by obtaining a licence from him , or , in the last resort , taking back the goods in return for a refund of their purchase price ; all of these at the seller 's expense . |
| 17 | If the fractions to be added have different denominators , then before you can add them , you have to alter the denominators so that they are all the same . |
| 18 | Any decision on whether to change the criteria so that smaller mergers would be automatically referred to the Commission will be taken by a qualified majority of the Council of Ministers . |
| 19 | In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete . |
| 20 | Since we 're talking about rules , what about erm Mrs Thatcher , Lady Thatcher wanting to change the rules so that a sitting Prime Minister ca n't be challenged . |
| 21 | We are literally only trying to get the appointments so that we can |
| 22 | So really we use the toner to close the pores so that you do n't get any creams or any dirt in the pores , so that the skin is nice and clean . |
| 23 | What we want is something wherewith to prod the teachers so that they impart more facts more efficiently . |
| 24 | SALT , for example , gave the Soviets an advantage in the number of ICBM 's ( even if the US maintained predominance in total numbers of warheads ) ; grain sales to Russia helped Brezhnev solve his agricultural problems but upset US markets ; Jewish emigration from the USSR increased but not enough to please the critics so that the US Congress ( under the Jackson-Vanik amendment ) decided to tie economic deals with Russia to greater Jewish emigration . |