Example sentences of "[verb] so that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This plan should be regularly updated as the design evolves so that at any moment in time it represents the best forecast of the final cost of the project . |
| 2 | In use , VR1 will be adjusted so that with no music playing , the l.e.d. glows with about half its normal brightness . |
| 3 | Whether by telephone or face-to-face , personal selling is an art , and a good selling technique can be developed so that with quiet confidence , knowledge and enthusiasm for the product the receptionist can highlight the special features of the establishment , so that in the minds of the customer that particular establishment has something extra special to offer . |
| 4 | Whenever difficulty is experienced in the course of business , such as dealing with a partner who appears not to be pulling his full weight or a developing personality clash between two partners , if the existing agreement proves inadequate to the task of resolving the dispute it should as a matter of priority be revised so that from then on it sufficiently deals with such matters in a way that takes account of the actual experience . |
| 5 | ‘ Though the mechanics of it are so arranged so that on every odd hour the water plays and the fountain dances in snatches of classical music . ’ |
| 6 | The serial usage is arranged so that in the first half , the ‘ O ’ , ‘ I ’ , ‘ R ’ , and ‘ RI ’ versions are all used at once , as follows : Violin 1 — ‘ O ’ beginning on C ; Violin 2 — ‘ R ’ of the same series as that of Violin 1 ; Viola — ‘ RI ’ of the series beginning on B♭ ; Cello — ‘ I ’ of the series beginning on B♭ . |
| 7 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
| 8 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 9 | The number of placements and registrations rose so that in 1913 , 74,535 boys and 54,206 girls aged between 14 and 17 filled labour exchange vacancies and the number registering was 137,668 and 115,171 respectively . |
| 10 | Contributions to the pension are targeted so that on retirement the tax-free cash sum , 25% of the fund value , is sufficient to repay the mortgage . |
| 11 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 12 | It had been thoroughly stripped by British Railways , and subsequently , vandalised so that by 1971 there were no doors , windows or roof glass left unbroken . |
| 13 | Their relation is far closer than the arbitrary link between signifier and signified so that in some contexts ( irony or double entendre for example ) connotative meanings are part and parcel of the denoted meaning . |
| 14 | Every day bank deposits are withdrawn and fresh deposits made so that at the end of each day liquidity for each bank will be different from that at the beginning . |
| 15 | Grainne , listening , watching , saw how his eyes darkened when he became absorbed in something , and how the planes of his face shifted so that at times the eagleblood was more strongly marked than others … how the cap-like golden hair shone beneath the light from the wall sconces … |
| 16 | where a special area in one housing estate has been set aside for problem families , where they are given daily supervision combined with training and instruction designed to teach them the elements of home craft and mothercraft so that in due course , when they have proved they can manage their affairs , domestic , financial or otherwise , they can return to a better house in a more desirable neighbourhood . |
| 17 | To get over this problem the latter exit is gently angled so that from La Scala the exit/entrance is square to the Piazza . |
| 18 | Substantial growth had already taken place during the course of the eighteenth century , but after 1801 the pace quickened so that by 1851 the population of England and Wales stood at 17·9 millions . |
| 19 | Strict compliance is needed so that in the case of E and S Ruben Ltd v Faine Bros and Co Ltd [ 1949 ] 1 KB 254 , the buyers were held entitled to reject rolls of rubber which , unlike the sample shown , were crinkly and hard . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
| 22 | The motorbike slowed so that for the first time they could see the outlines of the rider , a derelict farmhouse appeared in its headlight beam and the car behind them started flashing its lights . |
| 23 | She dreamed , not for the last time , that the baby had prematurely got out , like a kangaroo embryo , and was making its way blind and white and tiny up and up the billowing creases of Mrs Orton 's purple front , as that woman talked on and on , shifting so that at every turn the climbing thing was about to be casually suffocated . |
| 24 | The level of tariff protection was reduced so that by December tariffs averaged 7.1 per cent , and despite very high non-tariff levies imports rose by 11 per cent in 1989 . |
| 25 | The company was enjoying a phase during which new products were constantly being introduced so that in January 1981 , partly to keep customers aware of the ever-expanding range and also to enlarge the buying circle , the company initiated twice yearly catalogues . |
| 26 | His body clock free-ran so that on occasions he was the victim of a clash between an internal cause — which thought it was night and wanted him to sleep — and an external cause , society — which required him to work in the ( real ) daytime . |
| 27 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 28 | Secondly , in some species the choice is remarkably finely tuned so that under certain circumstances familiarity may be preferred over novelty . |
| 29 | Can the tape be structured so that by reading serially through the file it would be simple to produce a text stream suitable for an automatic typesetting process : |
| 30 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |