Example sentences of "so that [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The machine must continuously provide the musicians with examples of improvised drumming generated by the models it constructs so that its assumptions about the musical knowledge can be validated . |
| 2 | Dutch Edam is well known and much loved in Britain for its mild flavour and appeal on the cheeseboard — so much so that its versatility for use in cooking is sometimes forgotten . |
| 3 | A tranquillized tiger is fitted with a radio collar so that its movements in Chitawan National Park can be studied . |
| 4 | At this point a key question remains unanswered : what is the prescription for transporting the vector at P through curved space–time to P ’ so that its components at P ’ and hence the changes in these components can be evaluated ? |
| 5 | Because of economic constraints and the need to achieve cost targets , forestry has become increasingly mechanised so that its contribution to rural employment and local cash flow has been seriously eroded . |
| 6 | Another possibility is that advanced patient age prompts a less aggressive hospital treatment so that its effect on mortality is exerted before discharge . |
| 7 | The impression arose , in his view , not because of anything ministers said , but because the Government began privatising and stopped handing out subsidies to smokestack activities , so that its role in running industry diminished . |
| 8 | He made a sort of ducking movement to acknowledge his orders and tipped up the nearest chair so that its burden of garments slithered to the flagstones . |
| 9 | And all the time the line of force which bound her to her husband stretched and vibrated so that her heart in secret haemorrhage , gushed blood . |
| 10 | Particularly now that Ned O'Mara had turned against her , watching her like a hawk so that her source of pies and tarts and bones for her dog had come to an end . |
| 11 | As she progressed , she began to learn how to correct her balance when she was displaced by the physiotherapist , so that her confidence in her balance on her left leg was increased . |
| 12 | They are not associated with each other ; Epsilon is over 4500 light-years away , Zeta only a little over 500 light-years , so that their juxtaposition in the sky is pure coincidence . |
| 13 | The campaign for conscription was at least in part intended to force opponents of the war out into the open , so that their lack of patriotism could be exposed when it would be unpopular . |
| 14 | The Woodvilles ' power , by contrast , was almost entirely derivative , so much so that their identification with the prince was more of a bulwark for them than vice versa . |
| 15 | The Woodvilles ' power , by contrast , was almost entirely derivative , so much so that their identification with the prince was more of a bulwark for them than vice versa . |
| 16 | At the same time teachers are being treated more and more like workers and less and less like professionals , so that their sense of power and freedom to evaluate and select among these opportunities feels diminished . |
| 17 | Those in : ( 30 ) an eager student a poor liar a lousy saint ( with the latter having here its informal sense of imperfect ) are perhaps best considered as ordinary ascriptives which happen to be relativistic adjectives , so that their range of interpretation will vary according to the type of thing assumed to be described . |
| 18 | Cepheids are absolutely regular , so that their magnitude at any moment can always be predicted , and they are very useful to astronomers , because their real luminosities are linked with their periods ; the longer the period , the more powerful the star . |
| 19 | And animals which , unlike chimps , have no great manipulative ability , would not be able to compute those perceptual discriminations requiring motor activities such as putting bananas inside boxes , so that their understanding of naive physics would be correspondingly impoverished . |
| 20 | This can be dealt with either by fitting the natural curve and the formula curve so that their departures from each other are minimised through the whole length ; or by fitting the curve obtained from the formula to the lower parts of the segment of the river on the assumption that grade would be more nearly perfect in this reach ; or by refining the formula until it becomes very complicated indeed . |
| 21 | A and B are made in the form of a saddle and rider so that their centres of mass lie within 0.3 mm on release . |
| 22 | The types of jobs provided may simply reinforce the marginal status of many of these workers , that is , maintain them in an essentially peripheral position in society so that their access to economic rewards , dignity , and power remain severely limited ( Scott , 1984 ; Larwood , et al . , |
| 23 | The plaintiffs sued for the defendant 's failure to honour this promise and the defendant pleaded lack of consideration , the plaintiffs being already under a duty of delivery by the contract with A. The Court of Exchequer ( Martin and Wilde BB. ) found for the plaintiffs : Wilde B. thought that the plaintiffs might have found it advantageous not to comply with their contract with A so that their agreement with the defendant was a detriment to them ; in any event , they agreed to part with the cargo to the defendant which was a benefit to him . |
| 24 | Moreover , they frequently work in declining industries lacking effective union organisation and political representation , so that their prospects of escaping the low pay treadmill are slim indeed . |
| 25 | These practices , they further note , ‘ varied not only from region to region and from time to time but also from social class to social class , so that their impact on field systems and rural settlement patterns is complex and not easy to determine . ’ |
| 26 | The main point here is that not only did the Labour leaders reject the left 's version of the social contract with its new emphasis on a radical industrial policy , but also they increasingly came to question even the Crosland/Fabian/ ‘ Keynesian ’ version of socialism , so that their politics in the latter half of the 1970s became more and more of a mere holding operation — mere ‘ government ’ lacking any social purpose with a broad popular appeal . |
| 27 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
| 28 | The partners are personally responsible for all the affairs of the firm so that whatever system of management is put into place must be subject to their overall supervision . |
| 29 | In former ages we us 'd to give , So that our work-folk like farmers did live ; But the times are altered , we will make them know All we can for to bring them under our bow ; We will make them work hard for sixpence a day , Though a shilling they deserve if they had their just pay . |
| 30 | Advances in methods of excavation have been accompanied by various electronic devices for locating sites , more accurate methods of dating , and perhaps most important of all , many sophisticated techniques for interpreting the evidence provided by excavation and landscape survey , so that our understanding of the past has improved dramatically . |