Example sentences of "so [conj] [pron] [noun sg] is [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Alternatively , the protein may be modified so that its activity is increased .
2 The po solution is to move the factory upstream of itself so that its effluent is drawn into its intake .
3 Elsewhere he describes women as having an essentially passive sexual function , ‘ … so that its course is determined by the treatment accorded by the man . ’
4 Right and said erm a particle moves so that its displacement is given by this function of T
5 If the ion is attached through one oxygen , so that its symmetry is reduced from T d to C 3 ν , splits into two components ( a 1 and e ) , while if the ion is attached to one or more metal atoms through two of its oxygens the degeneracy is entirely removed and three components of ν 3 ( a 1 , b 1 and b 2 ) appear , as well as ν 1 .
6 In every enchaînement each step an/or pose must be given its appropriate value by way of beginning , climax and end so that its place is justified by its importance to the whole sentence .
7 This involves stimulating a female cat that is on heat with a glass rod , so that her body is fooled into reacting as if she has been mated by a tom-cat .
8 We can look on stressed syllables as occurring against a ‘ background ’ of these weak syllables , so that their prominence is increased by contrast with these background qualities .
9 The purpose of this chapter is to examine the question of how pupils can gain some inkling , through their own experience , of what religion is about , so that their imagination is stimulated to conceive of the possibility of the spiritual dimension being more than meaningless talk .
10 In part that might be explained in terms of the powers of resistance possessed by the bureaucracies under attack , so that whatever change is proposed it is soon absorbed and reinterpreted by the very groups it is intended to undermine .
11 The problem is compounded when we allow our leading businesses — Rowntree and perhaps Cadbury 's and others — to be bought up by foreign predators so that our muscle is destroyed .
12 Time the action so that your withdrawal is completed at the same time as your advancing foot is taking up its new position .
13 ( 1 ) Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart and grip the club in your left hand so that your thumb is running down the shaft .
14 All you need to do to avoid this reflex is to bend your hips and knees so that your body is balanced until you reach the chair .
15 Tension in the neck and shoulders can be eased by circling the shoulders up and around a few times backwards and forwards and by circling your head slowly down to your chest and then up so that your neck is stretched with your chin in the air .
16 5 The defender controls the attacker 's descent so that his opponent is placed directly in front of him .
17 I lay the rod in the rod-rest with the butt on the sand so that my line is entering the water at 45 degrees .
18 Quite sharp conflicts continually develop between these two approaches , and will continue to do so until their relation is thought out properly .
19 We produce less saliva when tense , so if your child is licking her lips excessively , this could be a sign of worry .
20 And all the more so if our motive is to seek our own pleasure .
21 We have already seen that someone with a voidable title can nevertheless transfer to an innocent purchaser a perfect title , provided he does so before his title is avoided .
22 So when my parent is handing out the parental investment , I will be selected to want the parent to give the investment to my sibling if the benefit is twice as great as it would be to myself .
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