Example sentences of "so that they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grammatical structures need to be " overlearned " — so that they become automatic habits . |
| 2 | To help raise parental esteem so that they become equal partners in this process ; and so that young children are able to see their parents as problem solving , confident role models . |
| 3 | While the key features of each — the limited liability company , the use of collective bargaining and the state provision of welfare — all have something of a Christian basis in terms of providing outlets for savings , strengthening the family , and correcting injustice and providing for those in need , nevertheless it is easy to see how they can become taken over by humanistic philosophy — so that they become unlimited freedom to create wealth , the use of collective power and the denial of individual merit and the state as the alternative for the family and private charity . |
| 4 | Alternatively , the prices could be adjusted somehow so that they met total costs . |
| 5 | Power stations can be made cleaner and more efficient , so that they use less fossil fuel , particularly high carbon coal ; energy can be used more economically by the consumer ; and there is nuclear energy ( the subject of the following chapter ) , which whatever else it is capable of doing , does not produce carbon dioxide . |
| 6 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 7 | Trailers are usually safer if they are parked close together so that they protect each other . |
| 8 | Everything about the construction and maintenance of such routes should be pro-cycle , so that they retain smooth surfaces , good lighting , shelter from wind , attractive landscaping and protection from vehicles ( Figure 9.2 ) . |
| 9 | Grafting an additional polarizing region into the anterior margin has done two things — the limb bud has widened and the polarizing region has re-specified the position of the cells in the anterior part of the limb so that they form additional digits . |
| 10 | That would take ages so they 're having land reform as a means to an end and that how that it 's improving living standards of peasants so that they get mass support , land reform was the only political option they had . |
| 11 | Most teacher-training programmes include provision for trainees to sit in with other teachers so that they get some experience of the environment they will work in . |
| 12 | On the day I fished the Tarn , however , a long summer heatwave and a freak wind had brought algae up from the lake bottom so that they hung ill suspension , turning the lake the colour of pea soup . |
| 13 | Some species , especially bulbs and the drought-loving irises , actually need a long , hot burn-up to ripen their roots or rhizomes , so that they flower next season . |
| 14 | If it is unnecessarily bureaucratic the engineer should seek to have the systems modified so that they contribute more cost effectively to improved quality . |
| 15 | The term coined by Banfield for this ethic is ‘ amoral familism ’ ; that it is ‘ amoral ’ is implicit in the exclusive pursuit of short-run material advantage ascribed to individuals in such societies , so that they lack any capacity to sacrifice immediate gains in favour of long-term advantage , and they are unable to associate any good to society as a whole with possible good to themselves or their family . |
| 16 | What we want is something wherewith to prod the teachers so that they impart more facts more efficiently . |
| 17 | Indeed , montage plays a crucial role in enriching the reader 's view of reality , for narrative units are arranged in such a way as to create an interplay , so that they bring fresh perspectives to bear on one another and are mutually illuminating . |
| 18 | Some of the older ones would get together so that they had ginormous piles of rubbish . |
| 19 | Although many of the leading manufacturers , including SmithKline Beecham , have changed the formula of their drinks in the last few years so that they contain less sugar , dentists say they 're still getting far too many cases of two , three and four-year-olds with decaying milk teeth . |
| 20 | The legal model has one further method by which it attempts to balance the desirability of going to the managers of the company substantial discretionary power so that they have sufficient flexibility to act effectively , whilst at the same time minimizing the danger that the existence of such discretion creates , which is that it will be used arbitrarily . |
| 21 | By subvert from within , I mean to actually be on Top Of The Pops and compromising in little bits so that they have big hit records . |
| 22 | They will be able to buy seeds to grow more food , or tools to dig wells so that they have clean water to drink . |
| 23 | involve someone in solving a problem so that they have some ownership for the solution . |
| 24 | The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers . |
| 25 | Occasionally there are situations where two techniques can be used , and there may be good reason to apply both so that they provide supporting evidence for each other ( for example , see p. 134 for the use of TL and uranium series dating at Pontnewydd Cave ) . |
| 26 | He picked up a second kitten , dangled one from each hand , swung them so that they hit each other . |
| 27 | We now turn to an alternative , fairly recent , intellectual tradition which emphasises the conflict of interests in the work-place and suggests that management , on behalf of capitalist interests , have moulded technical developments so that they suit these interests and run counter to the interests of labour . |
| 28 | The office that led off it was larger , with two desks positioned so that they faced each other . |
| 29 | In his last few years Kuypers and Gabriella Ugolini made use of viruses which travel into the nervous system and multiply in a pathway so that they cross nervous junctions and spread detectably along a whole connected system : a quite novel labelling technique whose full potential now remains to be realised . |
| 30 | Croydon cars already had cushioned seats of the highest standard on both decks and chromium plated handrails , so that they required less modification than the ex-L.C.C. cars rebuilt at the same time . |