Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] [noun] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might become necessary to define the parameters of an international dispute so as to identify the parties to it . |
| 2 | So I 'd ask you Madam to go along with what I 'm suggesting and make him the subject of an absolute discharge so that he does n't have any previous court er any , any convictions or anything like that on his record . |
| 3 | Employees need to be given adequate warning of the date of an impending move so that they can learn about their destination 's culture , make decisions on and carry out such matters as renting out their properties in the home country , make arrangements for children 's education and ship goods overseas . |
| 4 | Position the vases in front of an open window so that the breeze wafts the scent into the room |
| 5 | But her new sheets smelled of lavender and there was a comforting stone hot-water-bottle at the foot of the bed , wrapped up in part of an old blanket so that it would not bruise her toes , and Victoria 's gentle breathing was drowsy as the humming of bees , and she slept , with the tears drying on her cheeks . |
| 6 | Mungo nodded with an exaggerated movement so that the gesture would carry . |
| 7 | Herscovici says : ‘ At a Foundation in Madrid , I came across a fake Magritte which had been slipped into into an official exhibition so that it could be reproduced in the catalogue without my permission in order to achieve legitimacy . |
| 8 | As the European Court delays are providing a valuable premium for some people and holding up injunctive relief in this country , should not further representations be made to the European Court to deal with the problem as an injunctive matter so that certainty is quickly returned to the courts of this country ? |
| 9 | If the precursor O 2 is passed through an electrical discharge so that dissociation and recombination leads to the formation of as well as the symmetrical species , the products of reaction with X will also include and , which are different molecules ; their frequencies will probably be quite similar , but their frequencies will differ considerably . |
| 10 | Most of the passengers were either up on deck to watch the ship arrive or they 'll be frantically getting organised for an early breakfast so that they can get ashore . ’ |
| 11 | Even where such process does not demonstrate the incompatibility of the firms seeking a merger it will frequently happen that the actual merger will need to be delayed for an agreed period so as to phase in the new arrangements . |
| 12 | Mr Taylor-Young also says that costs are basically the same as for an advisory service so unless the client has time and is very keen to be in charge , it is advisable to opt for discretionary management . |
| 13 | Another example , using the technique of redefining the problem and using the above situation , may be for the counsellor to suggest that the intention of the father 's behaviour was to place the daughter in an untenable position so as to break up her marriage . |
| 14 | Types of learning are distinguished , and are arranged in an hierarchical way so that earlier types are necessary conditions for later types of learning . |
| 15 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 16 | Make sure the food is set out in an attractive way so that its appearance makes the children excited . |
| 17 | While not every article would interest every reader , or be comprehensible to him or her , they were usually written in an expansive style so as to be accessible . |
| 18 | There has to be better enforcement , and most of all there needs to be better education ; everybody in the country needs to hear more about animal welfare and animal conservation from an early age so that they are less likely to do things that have serious adverse effects on animals or the environment . |
| 19 | This requires a careful grading of structures toward an effective equilibrium so that self-esteem , personal dignity , personal defences and group security are never over-challenged . |
| 20 | The idea was that their names be on an official list so that , in effect , they could be victimised , even not hired , as a result . |
| 21 | In my judgment , as a matter of principle the colore officii cases are merely examples of a wider principle , viz. that where the parties are on an unequal footing so that money is paid by way of tax or other impost in pursuance of a demand by some public officer , these moneys are recoverable since the citizen is , in practice , unable to resist the payment save at the risk of breaking the law or exposing himself to penalties or other disadvantages . |
| 22 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
| 23 | It 's a matter of recognizing the anger in me on an everyday basis so that I do n't bottle it all up to the point of explosion . |
| 24 | There are many other examples in development of inductive interactions , one tissue signalling to an adjacent tissue so that its developmental pathway is altered . |
| 25 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
| 26 | Close by , in peaceful PAPPLEWICK village , Robin Hood halted the marriage of one Ellen to an ageing knight so that she could instead marry the lovelorn Alan-a-Dale . |
| 27 | The honeybees have taken this basic arrangement and elaborated it to an extreme degree so that they live in colonies of many thousands . |
| 28 | The joint chiefs of staff reviewed the role of Japan in defence policy and recommended to James Forrestal , the Secretary of Defense , on 1 March 1949 that in consequence of the serious world crisis and the probability of this crisis deepening , appropriate measures should be taken at an early date so that the ‘ military potential ’ of Japan could be utilised should events warrant it . |
| 29 | This was a good example , Dexter thought , of Blanche being unwilling to exclude someone from their investigation at an early stage so that they could concentrate their efforts . |
| 30 | However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract . |