Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] so [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now then , Miss Thorne , ’ he said , brisk of voice , weighing down the end of the narrow bed so that Alida , if she moved her left leg , could feel the pressure of his body . |
| 2 | Vietnam 's weakness was , he believed , endemic to the people and its society , and the first task was to remove the feudal structure so that Vietnam could emerge as a modern state . |
| 3 | I rubbed the creature 's tiny wrist against the broken glass so that blood poured down on to the bed . |
| 4 | The function of the state was to plan the social environment so that individuals could more fully realize themselves . |
| 5 | Suddenly she switched on a yellow lamp that stood by her on the table and moved the snake-like stem so that Larry 's face was spotlighted as if on stage . |
| 6 | The language of the Code is taken to constitute the major premise so that Lord Herschell said in Bank of England v Vagliano Brothers [ 1891 ] AC 107 : " [ T ] he law should be ascertained from interpreting the language used instead of , as before , roaming over a vast number of authorities in order to discover what the law was … " ( p145 ) . |
| 7 | He said the next government , whatever its colour , must make attempts to improve the legal system so that youngsters were not allowed out on bail to commit more offences . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just inside the front door so when reps come they do n't interrupt the rest of the house . ’ |
| 9 | The point of it is to place men and women in the same class so that partners in marriage will appear to be equal . |
| 10 | Included in these procedures were the keeping of a log book of each container load of waste , notification of the County Council , in advance of the dumping schedule so that officials could inspect dumping operations and a prohibition on containers , empty or full , being left overnight on the dumping site . |
| 11 | It is important that these edges be level in the horizontal plane so that water is distributed evenly throughout each basin . |
| 12 | It also involves rescheduling the whole programme so that decisions on commitments to production can be deferred until nineteen ninety five , with first deliveries to United Kingdom and Italy occurring in the year two thousand and to er Spain and Germany in two thousand and two . |
| 13 | ( It has been suggested that one method by which a written constitution could be entrenched could be by " manufacturing " such a change in the norm of validity by altering the terms of the judicial oath so that judges would swear to uphold only laws which were in conformity with the constitutional provisions — per H. W. R. Wade , 1989 Hamlyn Lecture : Constitutional Fundamentals ) . |
| 14 | In other words it 's not part of its standard employment allocation but it 's put it in the local plan so that people know , the locals know , that that field over there those fields over there erm are not guaranteed for ever as countryside but on the other hand they 're jolly well not gon na be released unless it 's for something extremely special for which there would be a statement carried through from the structure plan , elaborated on no doubt at local level , which set the rules . |