Example sentences of "so that by " in BNC.
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| 1 | More likely , they said , was that China would continue to modernise its economy , so that by 1997 the situation would be more one of China 's adjusting to Hong Kong , than of Hong Kong 's trimming itself to China . |
| 2 | They almost succeeded , so that by a combination of close range misses , poor handling and half-hearted rebounding they trailed 33-27 at the break . |
| 3 | In many countries this process had a cumulative impact throughout the 1970s so that by the end of that decade the difference between the price paid to farmers for a crop and the price charged to distributors was highly inequitable . |
| 4 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 5 | While he mulled over his future , Rudd gradually sorted out the handling so that by July 1960 the Type 48 was good enough for Hill to put in a brilliant performance in the British Grand Prix , clawing his way into the lead after losing a third of a lap through stalling on the grid . |
| 6 | Before 1989 , dolphin and porpoise hunting in Japan was unregulated , and from 1981 catches rose steadily so that by 1987 over 21,000 animals were reported taken for human consumption , and the following year officially reported numbers had risen again to over 25,000 . |
| 7 | The bill for the retired population would be borne by the working population , but the ratio of contributors to pensioners would slowly worsen so that by 2025 there would be only 1.8 contributors for each pensioner . |
| 8 | The task of parents is to ‘ mentor ’ their children so that by example and instruction their children may capture a glimpse of the true values of life . |
| 9 | In Hebrews 2.9 we read : ‘ But we see Jesus , who for a little while was made lower than the angels , crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death , so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one . ’ |
| 10 | Paul Davies is a guru of mathematical physics and his book covers the same territory as that of Hawking ( whom he cites often ) and Gribbin and is almost as impenetrable ; however , he makes every effort to take the layman along with him , so that by judicious and generous skipping you do gain something of value . |
| 11 | So a truce was declared in July 1921 , and negotiations took place between Mr. De Valera — on behalf of Sinn Fein , and the British government , so that by December an agreement was reached to partition Ireland , with six Counties of Ulster remaining with the United Kingdom , with its own Northern Ireland Parliament in Belfast . |
| 12 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 13 | Progress against German cipher traffic was less successful because Britain ignored developments in machine cryptography so that by 1939 GCCS was unable to read the German Enigma cryptograph . |
| 14 | What hostility did not do was deflect him from his purpose , so that by the time the regime fell in 1870 Paris had been altered for ever and bore the mark of Napoleon III . |
| 15 | In preparation for this , the first decade of the regime was devoted to the development of the infrastructure , in particular the railways and canals , so that by 1860 France had reached a point where it was felt she was capable of competing with the greatest economic power of the age . |
| 16 | Once again , as with water , the parsimony of individual householders and landlords prevented a more widespread domestic usage , so that by 1870 there were only 87,000 subscribers — and this in spite of the opportunities offered by gas for heating and cooking as well as lighting . |
| 17 | England particularly suffered from these raids , so that by the time of the twelfth-century renaissance it was , in the words of R. W. Southern , ‘ a colony of the French intellectual empire , important in its way and quite productive , but still subordinate ’ . |
| 18 | During the course of the seventeenth century , despite the reaction against puritanism which followed the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 , this point of view became increasingly influential , so that by the end of the century it had come to be generally accepted . |
| 19 | About L 9000 billion will be spent over the coming decade to bring gas to 440 centres in the south and 420 networks in the north and centre of the country , so that by 1990 76% of the population will have access to natural gas . |
| 20 | Alternate benches were so made that the back could be swung over so that by a simple movement you had two benches facing each other instead of one behind the other and back-to-back with the adjoining classes , the teacher sitting on a chair between the ends of the benches . |
| 21 | To ease my conscience , for every parking I bought an indoor pot plant , so that by now we have a veritable jungle growing along all the window sills , crawling up the walls and wrapping their tendrils around the television set . |
| 22 | By 1838 it was said of him that he ‘ ranks so deservedly high in his profession ’ , and he gradually began to obtain an increasing number of English commissions , so that by 1844 he moved back to London leaving his partner David Bryce in charge of his Edinburgh office . |
| 23 | Shelving covered the back two walls , whilst to the right was a biscuit stand containing some dozen tins , stacked at an angle so that by just taking off the lid , biscuits could be removed . |
| 24 | so that by the time the eastern goods reached the Mediterranean only the most uninspiring of the diamonds were left . |
| 25 | ‘ Many seem to increase their speed so that by the time they take the left hand fork to Cuckoo 's Corner pick your own farm , they are often doing speeds over 50mph . ’ |
| 26 | I received treatment on my injury every day in Edinburgh , so that by the end I was recovering well . |
| 27 | After the siege there was a rapid polarisation of opinion within the city , which resulted in the absorption or departure of the remaining Polish gentry , so that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars Danzig and Pomerania , though still containing a very substantial number of Poles and Polish-speakers , were considered loyal to Prussian ideals and identity . |
| 28 | An actual baby had awakened the baby inside herself ; she wanted less to be a mother than to have a baby , so that by feeding him she could in some way nourish herself . |
| 29 | The Mapplewell and Staincross Hospital Committee was formed in 1887 and the colliery owners and public of this area played a prominent part in maintaining the hospital ; so much so that by 1935 the three bed hospital now had 153 beds and its income had increased from £300 to £18,000 . |
| 30 | In 1983 , a five-year experiment with so-called ‘ Tempo 30 ’ zones began , so that by early 1988 there were already 5,000 zones in the country , a number that is still increasing . |