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

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1 The acid tank farm is completely enclosed and the building is kept under negative pressure so that fumes can not escape into the atmosphere .
2 The two are interfaced together so that queries that are primarily spatial can also access the attribute data , and vice-versa .
3 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 .
4 Retraining which is academic can be difficult unless some means is provided so that lectures , discussion and talks can be followed .
5 However , environmentalists are calling for proof from manufacturers that no other propellant can be used to replace CFCs in these instances , so that emissions are kept to a bare minimum .
6 To ensure that his subjects acquired the habit of carrying out his instructions he had to visit them as often as possible , and although the king 's itinerary was normally publicized in advance — so that merchants and tradesmen , as well as petitioners , could frequent his court without difficulty — it was sometimes useful to turn up without warning .
7 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
8 So that Ulster as Ulster will remain evermore
9 So that Ulster as Ulster will remain evermore .
10 ‘ They should stay where they are so that Ulster people can continue to enjoy the excellent facilities and services available . ’
11 However , ‘ DC& : Decimal classification : additions , notes and decisions ’ is a useful means by which modifications can be announced in advance of a new edition so that reactions can be assessed before a revision is finally settled .
12 The only ‘ regional ’ element in the arrangement was that three of the network companies ( Granada , Central and Yorkshire ) out of the five ( since Yorkshire joined in 1968 ) had a base outside London ; so that Granada 's Coronation Street , say , had ‘ authentic regional accents ’ ( quite an innovation in their time ) and escaped a metropolitan bias .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Learning is then a process of conscious intervention whereby performance initiated by the natural and unconscious process of acquisition is monitored , so that elements which have been learned as formal rules are grafted on to elements which emerge spontaneously from the domain of the unconscious .
16 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 . "
17 The 15 other boys in his class are having their heads shaved so that Mark will not be out of place when his hair falls out during his treatment .
18 But I got twe so that Mark blamed it on me but I 'd sussed it , as soon as starts tramping
19 Moving her arm , so that Ellie 's hand fell away , she stepped back .
20 Precise figures are hard to come by , because many European discount chains are privately owned , but no one doubts that they are taking a growing share of the $140 billion or so that Europeans spend on food each year .
21 The most sensitive waters of such areas are now entirely devoid of alkalinity , so that inputs of strong acids cause considerable decreases in pH .
22 The L3 is susceptible to desiccation , so that stephanuriasis is mainly associated with damp ground .
23 For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years .
24 He took a stick and poked the leaves till they glowed , orange flames flickered around the strap and the helmet began to shrivel , slowly becoming unrecognisable , so that Barnes would n't pull it out later and bring it back to the house .
25 The author has had time to consider and reflect , so that descriptions , interpretations and evaluations will have been carefully formulated .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Such an approach has been influential even amongst professional historians , so that Lawrence Stone , for example , hints at such a cyclical explanation in his own work on The Family , Sex and Marriage : ‘ In terms of both sexual attitudes and power relationships , one can dimly begin to discern huge , mysterious , secular swings from repression to permissiveness and back again . ’
29 Figures are being compiled for 1975 , 1980 and 1982 so that trends in patterns of spending can be established .
30 The same accounting methods are applied over a series of reporting periods so that trends can be identified and comparisons made .
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