Example sentences of "[vb -s] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you find it difficult to keep a rally going within the confines of the court , chase the ball wherever it goes so that you become accustomed to the habit of pursuing the ball . |
| 2 | Mains lights are available from good garden centres and d-i-y stores , and the most versatile type for creative garden lighting is a spotlight with a spike that can be pushed into the ground and a head that swivels so that the beam can be adjusted . |
| 3 | The roller is independent of the vehicle that it transports so that , if the rollers have a circumference of three feet ( or , say , one metre ) then the slab will move forward six feet ( say , two metres ) per rev . |
| 4 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 5 | The only good thing , the only good thing about La the only good thing about Labour is that they would have brought back student grants so if I ever , if I ever do go to university then I 'll get lots of money . |
| 6 | This plan should be regularly updated as the design evolves so that at any moment in time it represents the best forecast of the final cost of the project . |
| 7 | then there 's Ellen , do n't how the bloody hell she lives so or what have you |
| 8 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 9 | When an active fang is ripped out , the next most mature one takes its place and quickly develops so that it is ready to fire . |
| 10 | It was just one of these regular lunch-parties he has so that he can keep in touch with people he would n't otherwise meet . |
| 11 | We assume that the orbital plane has so that the metric eqn ( 4.10 ) becomes where , M is the Sun 's mass , and r is the distance of Mercury from the Sun . |
| 12 | One allocation that would be both efficient and equitable in this sense would be an initial endowment at 1 where both A and B have the same X and Y. Since they face the same budget constraint , each can have what the other has so that any trades away from equal allocation to the contract curve must meet the reverse allocation test illustrated as part ( b ) of the figure . |
| 13 | Nor is there anything remotely convincing about its performance ; there is a feeling of some urgency from 4000rpm but the power stops as suddenly as it starts so that the 6500rpm red line is a merely a figment of someone 's imagination . |
| 14 | Chidzero announced some minor income tax concessions , raising the basic abatement and adjusting tax bands so that the top rate of 60 per cent would apply at Z$40,000 instead of Z$33,000 . |
| 15 | LABOUR has set up a confidential hotline for NHS whistleblowers so that staff who want to raise concerns about standards of care can do so in confidence . |
| 16 | Referring to Christ 's teaching in John 10 that he is the good shepherd and the door to the sheepfold through which alone salvation lies so that anyone " that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold , but climbeth up another way , the same is a thief and a robber " , Hilton remarks that anyone who thinks they can bypass the way of darkness is such a " a breker of wal " ( 27.97r. – 245 ) . |
| 17 | The way round it is to avoid making everything a priority , which is the great temptation in the health service , and establish what 's wanted by both ministers and users participating in a debate about what matters so that you limit the number of priorities , then get them refined so that they are easily understandable and structured . ’ |
| 18 | For a growing number , being in a good relationship is what matters so if the relationship — and therefore the marriage — deteriorates , couples choose to separate . |
| 19 | However , unless the expert clause says so or it is agreed by the parties before the appointment is made , the expert need have no particular qualifications at all . |
| 20 | He is polite and very careful about what he says so as not to offend anyone . |
| 21 | So you 're sitting in your office and some , you know your , your boss comes in and says hey the president says so and so , but the president does n't usually say it to you he says it to somebody else so there 's always , there 's always a possibility of ambiguity , somebody else has interpreted the president 's message in a particular way . |
| 22 | Erm force is some , is the power at which , with which something possesses so if something , if you drop a pen on hand |
| 23 | The issue really concerns whether we can capture the point where social reality actually alters so that people either side of that line have structurally different resources and social relations . |
| 24 | The publication stressed that children should be helped to develop as wide as possible a range of language uses so that they can ‘ speak appropriately in different situations and use standard forms when they are needed ’ . |
| 25 | And you eat in what is called messes so that you eat in a mess of four and the server comes in and puts a plate of it might be venison and a plate of which is a kind of erm corn and er in front of you . |
| 26 | With this second choice for eqn ( 9.8 ) is replaced by solutions Now the light cone of a source within the horizon tilts so that it points outward . |
| 27 | Use light even strokes so as not to cause bubbles to form in the film . |
| 28 | I particularly liked the seat , which unzips so that I can put him down in bed once asleep . ’ |
| 29 | He finds that although the globular bodies of the histone molecules no longer contact the DNA of heavily transcribed genes , their charged tails still do , leading him to suggest that they remain tethered by their tails while the polymerase passes so that they can rapidly ‘ snap back ’ into their former structure . |
| 30 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |