Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] so [subord] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The suspended sentence would be activated with the term reduced so as to produce an overall total of 18 months .
2 ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence .
3 Thus , the Act has no effect in the internal workings of children 's hearings : there is no question of ‘ rehabilitation ’ as that term is understood in the Act applying so as to prevent a later children 's hearing exploring the circumstances of an earlier offence or hearing or disposal .
4 If this is the case , the adjustment is best made with the strings slackened so as to reduce the possibility of damaging the knife edges on the bridgeplate .
5 The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis , however , is that they were discovered by reverse genetics — neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively .
6 All joints were then soldered and smoothed , the tack-heads soldered so as to maintain the water-resistance and airtight quality of the coffin .
7 Before passing on , I will introduce a piece of terminology of my own and call central-system thinking ‘ cognisance ’ , a term chosen so as to give the flavour of knowledge , rationality , and accessibility to consciousness .
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