Example sentences of "so that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ . Again Douglas ( 1966 : 138 ) has suggested there is a liaison which exists between the physical body and its use as an expression of the social , so that one becomes a paradigm for the other : ‘ the [ human ] body is a model which can stand for any bounded system … |
| 2 | If an adze was used , smaller trees might have been more practical so that one finished square might be one round long . |
| 3 | so that one goes to the right and this one goes to the left |
| 4 | With climbers , I 've always believed in the more the merrier , but it 's important to team up your plants so that one does not swamp and ruin another . |
| 5 | To use criminal statistics wisely necessitates some prior work in getting to know the difference between indictable and non-indictable offences and also some legal history so that one does not suddenly discover an enormous decrease in a crime such as stealing cars when the new offence of ‘ take and drive away ’ is introduced . |
| 6 | They assault the sense , savage the palate , ravage one 's innards and announce themselves in loud , pungent terms so that one gets wind of them long before one catches sight of them . |
| 7 | In scores of other towns , on the other hand , the market places have been partly built over , so that one gets a broad main street , a block of buildings down one side and behind that again a narrow street running parallel to the main street . |
| 8 | The approach is to choose two discount rates to apply to a project , so that one produces a positive NVP and the other a negative NPV . |
| 9 | The latter is meant for weaving and , if knitted , will make the garment twist so that one knits a parallelogram instead of a square . |
| 10 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 11 | These little blocks are positioned along the length of the pickup so that one lies directly under each string — or at least they should in theory . |
| 12 | The third one up here , the small one , is a little bit sort of lost because it 's against er , this sort of cavity light here so that one tends to get a little bit lost . |
| 13 | In other cases , where rhythmic pulse is an important component of the accompaniment , the harmonic and rhythmic movements have to be fused together , so that one gives point to the other . |
| 14 | In the same schedule I accept Mrs suggestions for the school holidays and the rates that she gives so that one has seven thousand , eight hundred and fifty two pounds fifty times four which equals thirty one thousand , four hundred and ten pounds . |
| 15 | Well so that one 's got to go back to back to Cambridge then has n't it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 19 Two " Road Works " marker lights have been set so that one flashes every 6 seconds , the other every 15 seconds . |
| 18 | So that everybody noticed ! |
| 19 | I mean if you think about it it was just an impossible task to do it sort of fairly or so that everybody felt all right about it and also that you know if it 's your own children you 're having to choose presents you know the who whole idea was sort of very very difficult really . |
| 20 | N Neighbourhood Watch is , is , is trying to establish that type of relationship in , in the area so that everybody does know each other . |
| 21 | Another place , for example , it might be a good idea to stagger the times of closing of late night discos and so on so that everybody does n't come out all at once . |
| 22 | These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it . |
| 23 | And then they test the evacuation alarm then , so that everybody knows the alarms and er where to be and then th Every six eight weeks or something they take you for a helicopter evacuation where everybody 's taken from the lifeboat master station . |
| 24 | Why is n't it shouted from the start so that everybody knows from the start who you are ? |
| 25 | But I thought you were saying in answer to a question my was putting to you that one of the reasons for shouting armed police was so that everybody knows you 're armed police . |
| 26 | All I thought was that health monitor basically follows it but it just needs a , a little bit of clarification so that everybody knows exactly when forms are supposed to be produced . |
| 27 | so , so that everybody 's threatened by the same thing so that |
| 28 | Max made us nail everything so that nobody had to put reverb on anything to cover up a mistake . |
| 29 | ‘ You alone must decide what to do , ’ he replied , ‘ and now I must leave you , so that nobody suspects me of warning you . ’ |
| 30 | It is possible that there may be for instance some appalling typographical gremlin er has crept in to something so that something makes a nonsense . |