Example sentences of "[vb pp] so that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In chapter 8 , rules were formulated which dictated which way to run the proportions when dealing with the hypothesized effect of one variable upon another : proportions were calculated so that they summed to 1 within the categories of the explanatory variable . |
| 2 | There are two possible ways in which the bells can be arranged so that someone arriving at the door can signal their arrival to a person in a specific apartment . |
| 3 | Most water companies offer the choice of having a water meter installed so that you pay for the water you actually use rather than pay water rates based on the rateable value of your house . |
| 4 | When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration . |
| 5 | For its part , pluralism adopts a restricted frame of reference and takes too much for granted so that it skates on the surface of political life and only deals with the politics of participation and the politics of satisfaction to the detriment of any consideration of other less " obvious " things : there is little that is deep and illuminating about the pluralist perspective and crucial concerns are ignored as irrelevant to politics : pluralism is less wrong than limited . |
| 6 | A major extension of the East Approach Road has been made so that it connects to the existing four-laned Seafield Road west of the King 's Road junction . |
| 7 | An arrangement may be made so that you look at only one person who ‘ interprets ’ what is said , through writing or clear speech , but awareness of the ‘ feel ’ of the meeting and possible eye contact can not be easily conveyed at second hand . |
| 8 | In patients with this type of depression , their critical period is advanced so that it falls during sleep . |
| 9 | So , there were no leaks or speculative articles about the paper 's contents and publication was deliberately timed so that it arrived on news desks ahead of the finalised Cadbury Report . |
| 10 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 11 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 12 | ‘ The rootzone is protected under the warmth of the polypropylene carpet and , although the grass can be kicked off during play , the roots are not damaged so that it recovers during the growing season . ’ |
| 13 | It is clear that the scheme needs to be administered so that it dovetails with and reinforces the benefits of other grant schemes which provide for hedge renovation and management . |
| 14 | Thus if a close approximation to such a transformer features in the bridge circuit of figure 7.10(a) with its secondary winding tapped so that it divides into two portions having turns N 1 and N 2 , the ratio of the potential differences across these secondary portions will be near enough . |
| 15 | The tags in the corpus must also be translated so that they conform to the same tagset as this new lexicon . |
| 16 | Notice that they are standardised so that they sum to 1,000 . |
| 17 | He shakes his head and I get a shiver , remembering just that gesture of his , repeated and repeated so that it became like a nervous tic after a while , back in Strathspeld , after Clare 's funeral in ‘ 89 ; a gesture of disbelief , refusal , non-acceptance . |
| 18 | Under Resolution No.6 to be put forward at the AGM the directors propose that the authority should be extended so that it applies for five years from the date of this year 's AGM . |
| 19 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 20 | Secondly , I would point out that it is unusual for the Committee to be able to assert with confidence that legislation which is changed so that it conforms to their views , was changed solely because of these views . |