Example sentences of "[adj] so that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 . |
| 2 | I got involved in that so that by mid-1977 I was performing in a play which was actually saying that I was gay . |
| 3 | The last syllable is usually quite prominent so that in some cases it could be said to have secondary stress . |
| 4 | Although Margaret knew I would not support her , I was on reasonable terms with her-so much so that during the battle for the Leadership I attended her constituency annual dinner and dance as guest of honour . |
| 5 | It was possible to pay the skischool extra so that after school in the morning she would be taken to lunch in a local restaurant under supervision , then brought back to skischool in the afternoon , but for a 4-year old learning to ski for the first time to stay in skiboots all day is really very tiring . |
| 6 | Plumage pinkish-cinnamon ; tail and rounded wings strongly barred black and white so that in flight looks like huge round-winged black and white moth . |
| 7 | Her features were similar yet somehow blunted , her body stockier — not fat yet somehow altogether larger so that beside Paula she always felt clumsy in spite of being a full four inches shorter and almost two years the younger . |
| 8 | By his skill in design and execution he blended the Italian Renaissance with Russian Byzantine so that in decoration , particularly on the exterior , the roofing and lighting , the whole effect is more modern and classical than the Vladimir prototype . |
| 9 | In many countries this process had a cumulative impact throughout the 1970s so that by the end of that decade the difference between the price paid to farmers for a crop and the price charged to distributors was highly inequitable . |
| 10 | Resistor , R2 , limits the current so that in the event of a circuit failure , the l.e.d. will not be destroyed by excessive current as would otherwise be the case . |
| 11 | As it is occasionally covered by the sea this sand is not compact so that at times we could walk fairly comfortably , but at other times we sank in unexpectedly , which broke up our rhythm and made us tired and frustrated . |
| 12 | It was also announced that the country 's domestic defence industry was to be developed in the 1990s so that by the year 2000 it would be able to produce its own military aircraft , warships and submarines . |
| 13 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 14 | then they 're open so that at half nine you close them there , or at ten o'clock you close them there and you say when they come through if you 're going out that |
| 15 | If this is the case then society and organisations , far from being pluralist in nature , are , in fact , elitist so that on any given issue there may be a small group that exercises a great deal of power . |
| 16 | Red and also blue so that in that one yellow , there 's no yellows around . |