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

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1 If we try to shoe or float a horse , and it decides to be uncooperative , and we retaliate with force and anger so that the horse becomes anxious and fearful ; the horse will remember that such a situation terrified it .
2 What action is the Department taking to seek compensation and redress so that the overshipments in 1991 and this year are stopped forthwith ?
3 I feel we need a poet to tell of the contribution made to our Christian Aid Week by those who stay at home and bake so that the baking stall can be kept so magnificently supplied every day .
4 If the all-provident mother of the hunter-gatherer societies had been lost with the coming of agriculture and weaning so that a divine substitute had had to be found in heaven in the shape of the mother-goddess , then eventually a real , human substitute had been found on earth in the person of the all-powerful emperor or king whose granaries could supply in reality what the opulent breasts of the divine mother promised in phantasy — namely , reassurance against oral anxiety and the fear of hunger .
5 It will be a matter for consideration whether the fact that the plaintiff has passed on the tax or levy so that the burden has fallen on another should provide a defence to his claim .
6 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 .
7 At each end of the centre or top of the stetch he placed a hazel-stick , taken from the hedge and peeled so that the white pith acted as a sight for drawing his first furrow .
8 This is a deliberate training strategy that is used in the clinic and observed so that the parent learns how to do it at home .
9 Once the basic structure fur a story ballet has been created , the choreographer must find ways of linking the beginning , climax and end so that the plot develops easily from one scene to the next .
10 He nodded avidly in affirmation of his train of thought and turned so that the light fell directly on the front of his body .
11 For economy of space occupied by the site of the lift the two inclined ways would generally be side by side and although at the same inclination and extending between the same levels they would not be in the same plane but echeloned so that the one extends , so to speak , from the right side of the head bay to the right side of the tail bay whilst the other extends from the left side of the head bay to the left side of the tail bay .
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