Example sentences of "so that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On a broader geographical scale , the level of food production ceased to be enough to feed everyone , so that famine became an endemic problem , and institutionalised ways of dealing with vagrants and paupers began to be established throughout Europe .
2 ok , this poem 's called erm A Pause In A Moment Worn out days dressed in damp wheat , heavy coat pulling at tired shoulders , memory pushed back , brought forward in the click of a stick , pause in a moment , sunset reflected in eyes offering the warmth of recognition , so that poem started with the overcoat and that was the mood as I say , that was the mood of rejection erm and there was something about the way the old girl was looking at the women on the bridge , almost as if there was this recognition and , as it brought back memories that perhaps went or as black as the overcoat , erm the next er painting which I 'm going to read to you about is erm have you
3 Racism becomes defined in terms of features which are specific to the black ( or Afro-Caribbean ) experience , for example , or to the peculiarities of English history , so that anti-semitism , or the specific articulations of racism which have developed in , say , the Irish or Scottish contexts , or in other European countries , are treated as ‘ special cases ’ , because their inclusion would ‘ deconstruct ’ the ideal type .
4 Make sure , for example , that if she does not eat meat , she gets sufficient iron through other foods such as eggs , lentils and a variety of vegetables , so that anaemia is avoided .
5 You came to him through the spirits of your ancestors so that spirit worship and fear of the spirits of your relatives was very real to the people . "
6 The L3 is susceptible to desiccation , so that stephanuriasis is mainly associated with damp ground .
7 It was accepted that models were used to create all of the decoration required in the day moulds , so that variation could occur in making the model , mould , casting or in any final cleaning .
8 However and whenever it was first formulated , this pangenetic reduction of every mode of generation to micro-ovulo-gemmation could take inheritance , in so far as it was completely conservative , to be effected by an exact replication of a whole in all its parts ; so that variation , reversion and so on are explicable as disturbances , suspensions and complications of that fundamental replicative tendency .
9 All railcards can be issued so that South Shropshire people no longer need go to Shrewsbury or Hereford for this purpose .
10 It seemed years , ages later when she found herself picking up pieces of broken plate and wiping fried egg off the tiles — so that Gran , when she returned , would find the kitchen tidy .
11 If you are using brick slips to cover a large arch in the same room , the soffit can be nailed below the arch , but set back about 25mm higher , or made flush with the arch , so that brick slips can be stuck around the face , or both face and soffit , to match the main arch .
12 Flat roofs are laid with a slight slope so that rainwater can be collected by conventional gutters and led down to the drains .
13 While the onus is primarily on the chairman to handle business so that expertise is fully exploited , there are ways of enhancing the skills of individuals .
14 ( iii ) Most sheep graze throughout their lives so that pasture contamination with nematode eggs and the intake of infective larvae is almost continuous and modified only by climatic restrictions .
15 They will partly design the course themselves , concentrating on using local produce and designing menus so that preparation can be fitted in round all the other pressures on a farm .
16 As a primary intervention , I would aim to direct conversations so that preparation for these changes could be made and some consideration given to the future , whatever that would entail .
17 The economy demanded multinational States , so that nationality could no longer be a ‘ State-forming ’ principle .
18 From a train window the views are democratically arrayed so that basilica and hedgerow , back street and castle have equal viewing time and space .
19 TGAT had the job of rationalising and elaborating this instruction so that subject working groups would operate to a common format .
20 After the Civil War , a Fourteenth Amendment was added binding state legislatures and courts in similar terms , so that protection against prior censorship was guaranteed , but not protection against proceedings for obscenity .
21 So that afternoon she went to see Colin .
22 The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it .
23 Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club .
24 Significantly , these tend to occur as heads of major noun phrases ( " lines of … stakes " , " system of … fences " ) , so that concreteness is subordinated to abstraction ( 20 , 21 ) .
25 So that kind of pressure
26 So that kind of thing made analysts think that they could go on more than just free associations , they could look at a person 's character , as it were .
27 It 's very easy then of course to punish the person er who communicates that with you er which ultimately can can er totally divorce an organisation from the reality of what it 's actually doing so that kind of philosophy , very destructive in terms of er effective communication .
28 To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ?
29 But beauticians might be greedy financially , he reckoned , so that idea was discarded together with that of shoplifting .
30 It is illegal to put large quantities of animal faeces in household waste for collection , so that idea is ruled out .
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