Example sentences of "so [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main thing is to shift your centre of gravity forwards behind the punch , so that it is delivered with plenty of power . |
| 2 | Each gesture in a sequence must be carefully timed so that it is of proper value to the whole . |
| 3 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 4 | Researchers built the channel so that it is free of dopants , stopping the charges from bumping into impurity atoms along the way . |
| 5 | Megill himself , in his discussion of Derrida , as in the whole of his book , combines detailed knowledge of the texts , sympathetic treatment of his subject , and an ultimate detachment from it , so that it is not easy to discern his own attitudes . |
| 6 | He also needs to cap the new price so that it is prevented from rising further over the remaining four years of construction if he is to convince bankers that they should continue to support Eurotunnel . |
| 7 | Its meaning is influenced by the nature of the occupational task , so that it is ‘ common sense ’ for a member of the police to try to save lives , catch terrorists , make arrests , fulfil public expectations , do the paperwork properly , and so on . |
| 8 | This period of Eliot 's development is often seen as one of increasing narrowing , so that it is useful to emphasize that while it certainly represents a concentration of energy on Christian themes , it also represents a continuing openness to other elements and a drawing on resources whose foundations were laid in Eliot 's studies at Harvard . |
| 9 | Because of shock caused among audiences by this last line , Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage , so that it is clear that shock is only a part of a deeper message which shows how contact with the primitive can renew values of faith , self-sacrifice , and idealism which seem to have become totally atrophied in the world of London cocktail party and Hollywood film . |
| 10 | After the dog is clipped to the tug line it is clipped to a neck line so that it is held tight in position relative to the tow line . |
| 11 | Efficiency sounds like a strong claim , but actually it is pretty weak : all it means is that current information is available to everyone , either because they know about it or because enough people do , so that it is fully represented in the price . |
| 12 | We simply stand the horse sideways to a solid fence or wall , so that the horse is less likely to think of swivelling around , and stroke its neck and talk quietly to it so that it is relaxed . |
| 13 | I will write again as soon as Ferdinando hears he is to go and when I do you must prepare Oreste for the change Ellen so that it is not sprung on him . |
| 14 | A hyperbolic mirror will reflect light from a point source at focus F so that it is dispersed from focus F . |
| 15 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | At pH 3 — 4 , aluminium combines strongly with organic matter — such as humus or peat — so that it is less of a hazard in peaty waters . |
| 17 | And it is not unknown for members of a group to manipulate a drama to further their real-life victimisation of the class ‘ scapegoat ’ — so that it is not a drama experience at all but a vicious first-order experience disguised as drama . |
| 18 | Through clientelism , the allegiance of the peasant is to his patron rather than to other peasants , so that it is more difficult for solidarity between those in the peasant class to develop . |
| 19 | It was built of soft stone and has needed considerable renovation , some of it in cement , so that it is now almost pure , but delicate , rococo . |
| 20 | In time the nuns remodelled the church so that it is now Neo-Classical . |
| 21 | restrict the length of any fund raising project to less than one year so that it is completed within the period of office of a committee ; |
| 22 | Rosa Luxemburg was full of scorn — ‘ such a formula expresses either absolutely nothing , so that it is an empty non-committal phrase , or else it expresses the unconditional duty of socialists to support all national aspirations , in which case it is simply false ’ . |
| 23 | They are the culminations of a whole life which , as Malcolm Johnson puts it , ‘ sculpted their present problems and concerns ’ ; a life itself built around many different ‘ life-threads ’ — education , work , marriage , children , hobbies , and so on — so that it is best understood , both in psychological and social terms , ‘ as a complex of strands running for different lengths of time throughout a life biography and moulding its individuality ’ . |
| 24 | Product description must make clear the function of the product , using the appropriate British Standard term , so that it is less likely that the product will be used as a straightforward cleaning agent without the necessary controls . |
| 25 | But in their Spitalfields Tartan Collection , the Stewarts have done the work for you ; silks , cottons , wools all match up so that it is possible to choose as much or as little tartan as you like , whether it 's for a few cushions or for some big and bold project . |
| 26 | It will be free-draining so that it is never waterlogged and will be well aerated . |
| 27 | All clothing is chosen in slightly larger sizes than normal , so that it is not too tight , and it is easier to slip on . |
| 28 | When you lift the wheelchair into the car , you should fold it so that it is sideways in front of you , with the handles to one side and clipped up ; then lean over the chair to grasp the cross-bar under the seat ; lift the chair up , step back with one leg , lever the wheelchair towards you , over your thighs , and then slide it into the boot , wheels first . |
| 29 | According to that theory everything exists for only an instant and is then replaced by a facsimile of itself , so that it is but a series of momentary existences like the successive frames in a cine-camera film . |
| 30 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |