Example sentences of "so [that] it [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shifted the blame down the line , remembering to ensure that their punishment was harsh enough so that it would be noted by Marshka . |
| 2 | In theory , the Cabinet is still collectively responsible to the Commons , and so it is possible for a government to be defeated on a motion of no confidence in the Commons so that it would be forced resign , call for another general election , and face judgement at the polls . |
| 3 | On March 29 the Civic Democratic Union-Public Against Violence ( CDU-PAV ) voted to amend its name ( in use since October 1991 — see p. 38541 ) by dropping " PAV " so that it would be known henceforth simply as the CDU . |
| 4 | In one sense , literature is like any other form of social or cultural activity , so that it may be analyzed in semiological terms ; this would involve discovering what the nature of its component signs are , and how the system governing their use and combinations operates . |
| 5 | Indeed , it may be that it goes further , and effectively means that the seller has not undertaken to deliver the goods at all , so that it may be argued that the seller has undertaken no obligation and , prior to delivery , there is only a unilateral contract under which the buyer is committed to pay if the seller delivers . |
| 6 | Organically grown produce is packaged so that it can be identified and so that it may be distinguished from other produce . |
| 7 | He described it as ‘ a sort of mechanised private file and library in which an individual stores his books , records and communications , and which is mechanised so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility ’ . |
| 8 | The majority of actual examples investigated by Johnson revealed profiles of the second type , so that it may be concluded that much of the material forming the bar is eroded from the sea floor . |
| 9 | This need for verbal intelligibility was recognized not only by the Reformers in the Lutheran hymns and Calvinist psalm-settings but by the semi-Reformers ( Cranmer 's view that the musical setting of his translation of the liturgy in 1544 should ‘ not be full of notes , but , as near as may be , for every syllable a note , so that it may be sung distinctly and devoutly ’ ) and the Counter-Reformers ( the direction of the Council of Trent in 1562 that the words of the Mass ‘ should be uttered clearly and perfectly , and sink quietly into the ears and hearts of the hearers ’ , not with music ‘ contrived for the empty delight of the ears ’ ) . |
| 10 | The mic insert case should be insulated with tape to prevent short-circuits , so that it may be left in any convenient position inside the tie . |
| 11 | What will now happen is that er the contractor will regrade the land , erm but we will grass-seed it erm with Don , er our groundsman will look after and maintain that er so that it 'll be reinstated er over the next er six months . |
| 12 | The swan-white robes were not the possessions of single families but of the community , and every mother whose infant wore a robe made and sewed a tiny bow to the back of the garment , so that it might be recorded how many infants had been christened in it . |
| 13 | Daniel felt that she was willing Peter to respond , to show himself bruised and in need of comforting , to expose his wound so that it might be healed . |
| 14 | With ponds dug on the line , or streams banked up into ‘ flashes ’ to form reflecting points on the beacon track so that it might be checked when at least once a year the beacon was fired on the traditional day . |
| 15 | If the purchaser is to try to ensure that his is the last counter-offer , so that it will be accepted by the conduct of the seller , the device of sending back another acknowledgement does not work well in practice . |
| 16 | The disposal of the business will usually be a " transfer of a going concern " ( " TOGC " ) for VAT purposes , so that it will be treated as neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services , provided the requirements of art 5 VAT ( Special Provisions ) Order 1992 are satisfied . |
| 17 | The administrators Morton Thornton are now planning a complete restructuring of the company they are confident they can turn Carpenter 's around so that it will be trading in another hundred years . |
| 18 | There were also jointed clay pipes , each one a tapering tube with lugs on its sides so that it could be tied to the next . |
| 19 | This involved him in showing how Freud 's theory needed modification so that it could be integrated into the Parsonian social and culture systems theory . |
| 20 | It took very little ingenuity to transform an ordinary bone conductor type of National Health hearing-aid and to attach a metal ring to the receiver so that it could be worn like an ordinary ring . |
| 21 | His hair was the colour of spun gold , and two body slaves were doing their best to comb it out so that it could be braided . |
| 22 | so that it could be handled by abstract people . |
| 23 | The wooden panel was tampered with in the last century , probably while it was housed in the Museo dell'Accademia : at that time it was fitted with a hinged iron surround so that it could be swivelled . |
| 24 | Triticale breeders were keen to make the plant insensitive to day length so that it could be grown successfully at the Equator as well as in temperate regions . |
| 25 | Knowledge was returned to the individual knowing subject so that it could be analysed ( regardless of its truth or falsity ) as a product of the ‘ norms ’ within which the individual must operate . |
| 26 | The Eradicator is based , says Ray , on ‘ partial reverse osmosis by magnetic interruption ’ , and it was originally developed to reduce the hardness of pond water by coagulating limescale , so that it could be collected by a filter . |
| 27 | There was A1 , in at the birth pangs of the British weapon , where the plutonium was heated in the furnaces so that it could be shaped into the melon-sized spheres for the inner workings of the warheads , and it was no secret amongst the Establishment staff that a dozen years earlier cancers had been rampant amongst the technicians . |
| 28 | The link with Dean 's Rebel was deliberate , so that it could be seen almost as a sequel . |
| 29 | Two years before , in BBC v. Hearn ( 1977 ) , trade union officials had threatened that their workers would refuse to allow the BBC to televise the cup final so that it could be seen in South Africa , because of the union 's disapproval of the racial policies of the government of that country . |
| 30 | Would not my right hon. Friend be insulting British farmers if he were to suggest that he should decimate the financial support available to them so that it could be given to M. Delors for use as a slush fund for so-called cohesion — a bribe to the countries of southern Europe ? |