Example sentences of "the [noun pl] so [conj] " in BNC.

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1 After training sessions , keep any literature or handouts together with the forms so that you build up your own references to guide you .
2 These , together with marksheets and LEA reports , are produced on a turnround basis ; specific computer files are created at the point of printing the forms so that subsequent data entry can be reduced to a minimum of keystrokes .
3 The sea is calm , but such ripples as there are flick the light from the sun about and refract the view of the pebbles so that staring over the edge of the kayak is like peeing into a kaleidoscope over whose speed of rotation you have no control .
4 One reason for having that meeting is to reform the institutions so that they can cope with a second wave of new members , this time from Eastern Europe .
5 Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed .
6 So whether it means add or take away or subtract or negative we can sort of forget about it and just look at the signs so if get if we get take away plus three , that will be the same as take away plus three , yeah ?
7 Those arrangements can seriously affect the work of the courts , being concerned with assessing the needs of the courts and securing resources , organising the internal structures of the courts so that they can best deal with the caseloads arising , laying down pre-trial and trial procedures , managing the case-flow , measuring and monitoring court performance , managing court records , and planning necessary reforms to court structures and processes .
8 But perhaps the precise reasons for its origin and the timing of its confirmation are not so important ; of greater significance is that it became a key precedent during the ensuing century for those who wished to restrict the outflow of money from the English church to the church universal and in particular to the Roman Curia ; its appeal to the interests of patrons whose intentions were thwarted or impaired by impositions on the houses so that ‘ infinite loss and disinheritance are like to ensue to the founders of the said houses and their heirs ’ was to reappear in the later statute of Provisors .
9 Another restless night followed , and she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning , concentrating hard on the illustrations so that not even a tiny corner of her mind was free to think about Julius .
10 " I ca n't turn over The Times so that the pages lie flat , I ca n't fold up a map in the right creases , I ca n't draw corks , I ca n't drive in nails straight , I ca n't go into a bar and order a drink without wondering what everyone 's thinking about it , and I ca n't strike matches towards myself .
11 Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show .
12 The best players ; but with so many good players we could alternate the groups so that no one felt they had been left out .
13 Furthermore , in practice , we are often interested in making comparisons among the strata so that it is sensible that each be well represented .
14 Maggie picked up the poker and jabbed the fire with it , rearranging the coals so that even more heat was thrown out .
15 Ayer 's position appears to be making the rules so that the theist can not win .
16 In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete .
17 The only difference is that we are setting that fact out clearly in the rules so that people know .
18 Focusing the rules so that only larger errors and the most persistent offenders will incur penalties for misdeclaration .
19 Since we 're talking about rules , what about erm Mrs Thatcher , Lady Thatcher wanting to change the rules so that a sitting Prime Minister ca n't be challenged .
20 EPR had won the battle on their own terms but , like Bohr in his very different way , they had defined the rules so as to assure themselves of victory .
21 Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face .
22 Quite apart from blackmail the New Zealand police had no proof that either Mafart or Prieur had planted the bombs so when the two appeared in court in Auckland on 4 November 1985 the prosecution announced that they had accepted a plea of manslaughter .
23 It is important to number all of the items in the minutes so that it is easy to refer to particular items at a later date .
24 Economic life moves in cycles of peaks and troughs , and we must take advantage of the peaks so as to withstand the pressures of the troughs .
25 We 're very conscious of that erm and where , where we offered advice in large places where for instance , where housing where chemicals are stored and all the precautions that are needed are provided and built in , for instance stopping off the drains so that water is contained , providing sloping areas in , in the bottom of warehouses where water does n't come out , erm monitoring it telling people about it .
26 There is quite an art in scattering the pennies so that they do not hurt the children .
27 The issue which divides your Lordships is whether this House should now reinterpret the principles lying behind the authorities so as to give a right of recovery in such circumstances .
28 ‘ He was always moving the goalposts so that we could never anticipate what he wanted . ’
29 Other duties of the maître are defined in the article ‘ Ensemble ’ : ‘ It is for maîtres de musique , conducteurs and chefs d'orchestre above all to guide , or hold back , or hurry along the musicians so as to obtain ensemble everywhere . ’
30 At the opposite extreme , whenever the signals in a nonlinear network are small enough , the network is effectively linear with respect to the signals so that the methods developed for linear network analysis may be applied with advantage .
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