Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] [noun] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To dress the Croatian thugs up as Franciscan monks so that they could escape to Italy out of the clutches of Tito 's partisans . |
| 2 | Between the channels , all of which will be ‘ swept ’ in the direction of flow , the chamber is built up with concrete benching so that any splashes are directed back into the channels . |
| 3 | In 1978 Allan concluded her survey of such research by writing : As a result different research came up with different findings so that the policy maker and practitioner ended up with long lists of poorly defined and sometimes contradictory characteristics . |
| 4 | Hitch understood and bolted for the door , picking the receiver up with infinite care so that he too could hear the voice on the other end of the line . |
| 5 | The painting is awkwardly and laxly structured but now the contours of many of the compositional elements have been freely and insistently opened up into each other so that the eye is led quickly not only into depth but also steeply up the picture surface , a premonition of things to come . |
| 6 | At last , Rourke moved , propping himself up on one elbow so that he could gaze down at her . |
| 7 | These generally refer to finding a self-indexing function for tables in main storage ; Jaeschke has developed a method originally proposed by Cichell , and he has shown that , however complicated the key sequence is , a self-indexing function can be found for up to 40 keys so that they fit exactly into a table with the same number of storage positions . |
| 8 | The corny raucousness which ensued of course meant that the television volume had to be turned up to window-shaking levels so that the happy couple could savour the exquisitely enunciated phrasing of Arnold Schwarzenegger 's lines over the noise of their munching . |
| 9 | The problem is compounded when we allow our leading businesses — Rowntree and perhaps Cadbury 's and others — to be bought up by foreign predators so that our muscle is destroyed . |