Example sentences of "[to-vb] so [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 2 | The cause had to be lack of food , the mints I 'd had earlier had obviously worn off , but , soft-hearted fool that I am , I was trying to wait so that me and the invalid could sit and break bread together . |
| 3 | It will be videoed , to se you 'll make two applications within that small group session and a second will be videoed but only for you to see so that you can take it away and try and learn from er seeing yourself on video . |
| 4 | If they have to shoot to kill so that their children live , they will . |
| 5 | Australia have shown you have to lose so that you can eventually win . |
| 6 | It was a reminder of the early days of European seamanship , when captains discouraged their crews from learning how to swim so that they were more likely to sink with their ship than abandon their posts and struggle for shore . |
| 7 | It is better for both partners to attend so that they can discuss the issue and fully appreciate its implications . |
| 8 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily . |
| 11 | If rights are being infringed the Purchaser will need to know so that it can restructure the Business to avoid further infringements . |
| 12 | He wanted the days to pass so that he could be back at Ravenswood School , safe in the dining-hall and his classroom . |
| 13 | The hound had been given something of Sir Henry 's to smell so that it would pick up his scent and follow him . |
| 14 | Mothers and daughters tend to develop a close grooming association which tends to persist so that these close relatives have about the same rank , the daughter 's being contingent upon that of the mother . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On Monday morning he drove the car to work so that he could show his colleagues the slightly dented bumper . |
| 17 | As a sentencing judge you are always looking for options erm a variety of options to impose so that each individual sentence that you impose on a defendant is tailored to either the rehabilitation or the punishment ends of sentencing . |
| 18 | How odd people were , how unpredictable and curious , how difficult it was to know how to behave so that one pleased oneself and society as well . |
| 19 | She slept badly , often waking to listen so that she would not his going in the morning . |
| 20 | Sometimes this is difficult to state so that , for example , although the common law did refer to the owner being under an obligation to hire out goods of a reasonable fitness , the level of care associated with this obligation was uncertain , being mainly the product of dictum rather than decision . |
| 21 | Behind Boswell 's published account of his fidgety stay at the Mackinnons ' — he felt so lethargic that he did not encourage Johnson to talk so that he would not have to write it down — lies some oddity . |
| 22 | During all workstation assessments , the VDU user will be consulted and is encouraged to participate so that the workstation can be adjusted to suit the needs of the individual . |
| 23 | it was not appropriate in these circumstances to follow ‘ the liesbosch ’ decision which held that impecuniosity was an effective cause of the need to hire so that costs were not recoverable . |
| 24 | The jungles of Stalinvast would swiftly rot into sludge that would form shallow festering inland seas and lakes , where rot continued to feed so that the very air burned planet-wide , searing the whole surface to ashes and bare rock . |
| 25 | Each executive selected an episode that he wished to redesign so that it would not have negative consequences . |
| 26 | This was probably deliberately added by the potter as sand temper , to ‘ open up ’ the clay fabric , allowing water vapour to escape so that the pot would be less liable to crack during firing ( see Chapter 2 for further discussion ) . |
| 27 | You 'd have to suspect that they were holding the wife to ransom so that her husband would give them access . ’ |
| 28 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 29 | They tried to reach the River Po , which they hoped to cross so that they could eventually get back to Germany . |
| 30 | To advise the Secretary of State on the practical considerations which should govern all assessment including testing of attainment at age ( approximately ) 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 within a national curriculum , including the marking scale or scales and kinds of assessment including testing to be used , the need to differentiate so that the assessment can promote learning across a range of abilities , the relative roles of informative and of diagnostic assessment , the uses to which the results of assessment should be put , the moderation requirements needed to secure credibility of assessments , and the publication and other services needed to support the system — with a view to securing assessment and testing arrangements which are simple to administer , understandable by all in and outside the education service , cost effective and supportive of learning in schools . |