Example sentences of "[vb pp] so that they [verb] " 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 | The second premise is a description of the experimental set-up , including the statement , ‘ This sample of bats is blindfolded so that they do not have the use of their eyes ’ . |
| 3 | As long ago as 1970 , the Coldstream-Summerson Report reflected the growing concern about vocational courses and suggested they be recognized so that they became design ‘ technician ’ courses along the lines of the definition laid down in the 1969 Haslegrave Report . |
| 4 | The Seven Points to Remember were revised so that they mentioned the four types of diarrhoea ( previously described ) and stated that all four types should be treated with LGS . |
| 5 | Demolition charges had also been carefully set on machinery in the fish meal and other factories ; these small charges of gun cotton being placed so that they destroyed equipment without the risk of causing needless casualties . |
| 6 | Double and triple installations can be arranged so that they use a constant flow of water , which is introduced into the rinse sink , overflowing by weirs wash sinks , to discharge continuously via an overflow pipe fixed in the wash sink . |
| 7 | Cut a tongue in each of the faces to be joined so that they interlock neatly , bind the joint with raffia and cover with grafting wax or bituminous tree paint . |
| 8 | If it is unnecessarily bureaucratic the engineer should seek to have the systems modified so that they contribute more cost effectively to improved quality . |
| 9 | Meals also have to be modified so that they do not produce a rhythmic input to the body . |
| 10 | Slightly larger objects , however different and unrelated , should be grouped so that they have something in common like colour or national origin . |
| 11 | Jobs which do not fulfil this purpose must be reorganised so that they do . |
| 12 | The office that led off it was larger , with two desks positioned so that they faced each other . |
| 13 | In time , plants were domesticated and selected so that they differ greatly from their wild ancestors , some so much so that their ancestors can not now be recognized . |
| 14 | The chemicals have to be carefully selected so that they affect only the tin oxide and nothing else . |
| 15 | These must not be sung in the unfamiliar acoustic of the Church hymn , but suitably doctored so that they do not make shoppers stop their trolleys to listen . |
| 16 | All items had to be packed so that they weighed less than twenty-two pounds and sometimes there were so many parcels filling the room that it was impossible for other customers to pass through the door ; the postmaster would then telephone the Newtown depot to request a special van to come and collect them . |
| 17 | Gradually their capacity to care for themselves fully is reduced so that they require help with heavier cleaning jobs or gardening , then help with routine tasks such as shopping and cooking and finally , in some cases , help even with feeding , washing and dressing themselves . |
| 18 | The colours used to display the grid , cursor , text and screen background can all be independently set so that they do not interfere with the design itself . |
| 19 | The tags in the corpus must also be translated so that they conform to the same tagset as this new lexicon . |
| 20 | Notice that they are standardised so that they sum to 1,000 . |
| 21 | They wore clothes that he thought beautiful , when he could see for envy : jackets with Napoleonic pockets , trousers cut so that they reached the ground at the back , pink shirts , print ties . |
| 22 | Space must be left so that they get an uninterrupted view , extra lighting may need to be laid on and someone must be on hand to make sure the photograph has an accurate caption . |
| 23 | Respondents are always reluctant to admit such deficiencies ; questions must be phrased so that they seem quite acceptable , e.g. ‘ Which brand of washing powder did you buy last ? ’ might become ‘ Can you remember which brand … ? ’ |
| 24 | The passages were constructed so that they contained a target clause which in one version of a passage formed a sentence on its own and in another version was part of a longer sentence . |
| 25 | The biological assumptions involved in such statements are based on a series of half-truths about the ageing process , extended so that they appear to support explanations about the nature of life and health in old age that are not justified by the facts . |
| 26 | Their sequences are chosen so that they match two short DNA sequences that flank the region of interest . |
| 27 | The needle and sample are chosen so that they form a thermocouple : a device that produces a voltage if the point at which the two materials meet is hotter than its surroundings . |
| 28 | Enrichment materials were seen as being produced mainly in connection with the teaching of basic skills and would include additional topics and materials in Sesotho , Mathematics and English chosen so that they deepened children 's understanding of core topics and including supplementary readers , apparatus , assignment cards , games and radio broadcasts . |
| 29 | At this distance in time we simply do not know in detail how the clerks did their jobs , for there were no manuals of office procedure , and the functional tasks gradually evolved so that they bore little resemblance to their forebears . |
| 30 | If they can not be brought together the organization must be changed so that they report — possibly only for this one task — to the same person . |