Example sentences of "so that [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | so that one goes to the right and this one goes to the left |
| 2 | This causes massive expansion of air , and demonic winds churn up dust so that one seems to be walking on the bed of a murky sea . |
| 3 | Adie 's job grows ever harder because she is Britain 's best-known reporter , so that what happens to her is often a better story than the one she is covering . |
| 4 | Indeed , I shall try to maintain the dry and dusty nature of this column so that we return to more arcane matters of corporate credit in the next issue . |
| 5 | We may not ask for help by weeping , but our bodies may become helpless so that we have to be helped . |
| 6 | In more recent times , Luciano Berio has used the same technique in his Sinfonia , Labirintus H , and electronic works , so that we seem to be hearing different music — symphonic , jazz , military , vocal , etc. — as if radios were tuned to different stations and the music merging , conflicting , and changing . |
| 7 | This introduces a factor 2 – so that which reduces to the previous result for the random array . |
| 8 | This can be formalized into a rule when dealing with contingency data : Construct the proportions so that they sum to one within the categories of the explanatory variable . |
| 9 | Notice that they are standardised so that they sum to 1,000 . |
| 10 | So that they got to all go off at once . |
| 11 | The use of these specific substances or behaviours may trigger the underlying addictive potential so that they come to be used inappropriately and compulsively . |
| 12 | Secondly , the SIB has been given the power to designate rules and regulations issued by it in relation to conduct of business , financial resources , client money or unsolicited calls , so that they apply to all authorized persons . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Three rows of tiny figures circled a Navaho basket , holding hands forever in the weave ; black squares for heads , so that they seemed to be facing inward to preserve the sanctity of the dance . |
| 15 | Grey stone walls rose about them , and winged roofs surfaced with rose-red tiles caught the sun so that they seemed to be on fire . |
| 16 | As Appendix II suggests , these anxieties may tend to narrow people 's choice of type of credit , so that they stick to — possibly unduly expensive — forms that they are familiar with , rather than trying to find some cheaper type . |
| 17 | But constraints usually involve power over only one or a narrow range of corporate activities , so that they amount to partial control rather than control over the entire spectrum of major decisions ’ . |
| 18 | There is always the tendency , therefore , to adjust ideas so that they conform to what is conventional and customary . |
| 19 | The tags in the corpus must also be translated so that they conform to the same tagset as this new lexicon . |
| 20 | Modify the relations so that they conform to the rules of normalisation . |
| 21 | Positioning the moss at the bottom of the picture , push the wild flower stalks into the moss so that they seem to be growing naturally . |
| 22 | Female sexuality causes men to lose self-control so that they cease to be responsible for their actions — or so runs the accepted wisdom . |
| 23 | It may have been enacted beforehand by the witnesses , so that they testify to what they have actually witnessed ; alternatively , the organiser of the mock trial may simply have given to each witness a statement of his evidence , which he is expected to remember . |
| 24 | Evolutionary pressures have separated the male and female mink , so that they appear to be ( and are sometimes mistaken for ) two distinct species . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , no , señor — we bring plenty of moss from the hills and cover all the pots so that they appear to be part of the tree . |
| 26 | If we are to move towards transforming schools so that they deliver to young people a more appropriate and empowering kind of education than many of them currently receive , and if , as I have argued , this must happen with the committed participation of substantial numbers of teachers , then it follows that the promotion of integrity and self-respect amongst teachers is the most urgent challenge that education currently faces . |
| 27 | During his reign there were no murders , no wars , no robberies , and gold rings lay untouched in the open , so that everyone referred to his age as the Frótha-frith , the ‘ peace of Fróthi ’ . |
| 28 | Thunder exploded , roll after roll after roll , so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment . |
| 29 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 30 | Weirdly , the step turned into a kind of floating movement , so that she seemed to be somehow poised in the air for an instant . |