Example sentences of "so that [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , skin care assumes considerable importance in the woman 's mind , so that even a secondary association can be a significant one . |
| 2 | They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens . |
| 3 | To this general appreciation of functional variety in language , the pluralist adds the idea that language is intrinsically multifunctional , so that even the simplest utterance conveys more than one kind of meaning . |
| 4 | 4/Dry brushing needs practice , so that just the right amount of colour is on the brush and a controlled amount is leaving it on contact with the paper . |
| 5 | In the horse , the digits have been progressively reduced so that just the central core carries the load and the two adjacent ones are present as splints — remnants of the digits that once were there . |
| 6 | Indeed it was still argued that determined efforts should be made towards monetary union so that eventually a common currency could be issued by a European central bank . |
| 7 | Taken as a whole , the 1950s can be seen as a decade in which everyone had to work very hard just to keep the District on an even keel : it reflects great credit on all concerned that , in statistical terms , the decline of the early fifties was halted so that ultimately an expansionist phase could begin . |
| 8 | Each has a social component so that potentially the social significance of various rates , ratios and relationships can be used to interpret trends . |
| 9 | But the Japanese have become obsessed , in recent years , with improving the strain , so that now a good Goshiki has all the virtues of a Kohaku , in terms of ordered blocks of colour , with the additional bonus — shared by the Koromo fish — of additional overlaying patterns . |
| 10 | Moreover , physical contact , if it proceeds at all , will almost inevitably reach the point of physical stimulation of their sexual parts , so that now the reflex component also comes into play . |
| 11 | Parliament , recognising the danger — perhaps more to respect for the law than to press freedom — changed the law , so that now the very fact of a conviction is deemed to be conclusive evidence of its correctness . |
| 12 | Her property was her separate property ( that is , separate from her husband , so that only a married woman could have such property ) , and , by means of a settlement , she could be restrained from anticipating it . |
| 13 | The ideal toy is very light , so that only a small amount of effort moves it a long way , and very soft , so that sharp feline claws and teeth can sink into it in a satisfying way . |
| 14 | PCT and its associated RGT ( Repertory Grid Technique ) are thoroughly discussed elsewhere ( Bannister and Mair , 1968 ; Bannister and Fransella , 1974 ; Fransella and Bannister , 1977 ; Osbourn , 1980 and 1988 ; Gaines and Shaw , 1981 ; Shaw , 1980 and 1981 ; Thomas and Harri-Augstein , 1985 ) so that only a brief outline will be presented here . |
| 15 | Moreover a shop would normally be emptied of its goods before abandonment , so that only a sudden catastrophe , like a fire , would catch it fully stocked . |
| 16 | Now it is rare for a centre-forward to skipper a side ( and I do n't think that has happened on more than one occasion at the Palace since ) so that only an exceptional player would do so . |
| 17 | We 've had some fairly exotic bass strings dangled in front of our wallets over the years — like the ones which were round-wound by the bridge and progressively smoother up towards the nut , and the others designed so that only the bare core passes over the bridge saddles — but Jim D'Addario is pretty scathing about them all . |
| 18 | He bit off whatever he was going to say and inhaled deeply , smoothing his face into a blank expression so that only the hot glitter in his eyes betrayed his anger . |
| 19 | Most of these claims will be offset by counter-claims , so that only the net indebtedness has to be settled by using the banks ' balances at the central bank . |
| 20 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 21 | In spring , either dig up the shrub and replant at a deeper level , or mound soil round its base so that only the upper half of stems is exposed . |
| 22 | The reactions after Hiroshima , er when the bombed had dropped were erm , somewhat strange , people with documentation say that people even though they were injured did n't actually want to move away from their home early , erm , and so that possibly the same sort of thing happened in Chernobyl . |
| 23 | Repairs would have been difficult , if not pointless , in the depths of winter , so that almost a close season for carts and wagons might have been observed , with pedestrians and pack-animals being the only travellers . |
| 24 | Many can go on to lead virtually independent lives in ‘ core and cluster ’ schemes even if the handicap is severe , so that ideally the handicapped person would leave home to live independently after leaving school . |
| 25 | Short lengths of net can be used so that ideally the enclosed space is partitioned into three sections using two nets set parallel to each other . |