Example sentences of "so [that] it " in BNC.

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1 This virus affects the body 's defence system so that it can not fight infection .
2 Or , you can cover it with black plastic so that it rots down .
3 It is a good idea to say the key words aloud every time as you check each item so that it becomes a habit .
4 In very high winds it is usually better to deliberately let the glider swing into wind so that it comes to a stop facing directly into wind .
5 With a low-powered winch or tow car , the acceleration is far slower and there is plenty of time to get the glider nicely balanced on the wheel so that it leaves the ground with a safe margin of speed .
6 The order of movements is relatively unimportant compared to the necessity of making an immediate forward movement to reduce the angle of attack of the wing so that it unstalls .
7 They pump oxygen into the bloodstream , so that it passes through the heart and reaches the working muscles .
8 Release information in limited quantities so that it can be absorbed and understood .
9 With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner .
10 Nothing but the best for Lucy , and that meant a month of sober evenings honing every flip phrase so that it made a point .
11 The slapping block can also knock the incoming punch sideways , but the blocking hand must be retrieved as quickly as possible so that it can act as a guard .
12 The main thing is to shift your centre of gravity forwards behind the punch , so that it is delivered with plenty of power .
13 You are to come now. , He concentrated on positioning his shoulder so that it was in a cave formed by a fold of the stiff , harsh blanket , untouched by it .
14 But the electrophysiological examples I have described go some way to countering Wittgenstein 's negative assertion : ‘ No supposition seems to me more natural than that there is no process in the brain correlated with associating or with thinking ; so that it would be impossible to read off thought-processes from brain-processes ’ ( Zettel , paragraph 608 , Anscombe 's translation , 1967 ) .
15 The second solution , which contains hydrogen peroxide , is stabilised so that it will not liberate oxygen until it comes into contact with an alkali .
16 Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon .
17 InterCity now has a range of offers — first class , standard and the Saver ticket — the purpose of which is , by offering varying fares to channel demand so that it can spread the load over existing capacity .
18 Nevertheless his choreographic plan is so designed that each movement of every dancer , whether as an individual or part of the group , is co-ordinated with the others so that it fits correctly into the overall pattern and within the space allotted by stage , wings and backcloth which — in Symphonic Variations — delicately echoes the curving lines or the dance .
19 Each gesture in a sequence must be carefully timed so that it is of proper value to the whole .
20 It also depends on how the gesture is extended in time and space so that it appears to emanate from the dancer 's concentration on the purpose of the gesture .
21 It was certainly a surprise to Watney 's , which for the previous four months had been planning its own takeover bid for Truman 's , so that it could close the high-cost Mann 's site .
22 It is rolled into a pellet and fastened to the end of the needle and lit so that it smokes .
23 In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find .
24 Researchers built the channel so that it is free of dopants , stopping the charges from bumping into impurity atoms along the way .
25 Megill himself , in his discussion of Derrida , as in the whole of his book , combines detailed knowledge of the texts , sympathetic treatment of his subject , and an ultimate detachment from it , so that it is not easy to discern his own attitudes .
26 Leavisism assumed that its rewriting of the canon had a once-and-for-all quality , so that it was inconceivable that anyone could come to admire Shelley again , though this is precisely what has happened under the influence of Harold Bloom , who is dedicated to overturning the Eliot-Leavis version of poetic history .
27 This could be done more effectively if the law was changed so that it became the jury 's responsibility to assess only the actual damage to the plaintiff and the judge 's responsibility to impose an unlimited fine on the defendants according to his view of their culpability .
28 Along with the merger , Postbank shareholders will be asked to approve a change to the bank 's articles of association so that it can engage in wider areas of business .
29 In fact , the whole programme had an unsually philosophical undercurrent ( quoting , for example , philosopher Mary Midgeley ) — so much so that it sometimes seemed less like a current affairs report than an enquiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to nature .
30 He also needs to cap the new price so that it is prevented from rising further over the remaining four years of construction if he is to convince bankers that they should continue to support Eurotunnel .
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