Example sentences of "so that it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry bent down and with one hand lifted the gangplank so that it hung in mid-air . |
| 2 | The kitten was cradled in her arms and she ran her fingers gently up and down its stomach so that it purred with delight . |
| 3 | Place six of the canes in the base holes and fit the roof on top so that it sits on top of the cake . |
| 4 | This was in the mid 1560s , when Mary was still in power , so that it reads like Knox 's wishful thinking rather than anything else ; and it was then recast into the famous phrase by the Protestant chronicler Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , writing in the 1570s , by which time the representative of the house of Stewart was the child James VI , and the lass had long gone — into English captivity . |
| 5 | Place BCD so that it passes through A and cuts the fixed straight line at C . |
| 6 | In patients with this type of depression , their critical period is advanced so that it falls during sleep . |
| 7 | Using a brush and diluted green and blue food colouring , paint the quarter globe of white on the cake drum so that it looks like Earth . |
| 8 | So , there were no leaks or speculative articles about the paper 's contents and publication was deliberately timed so that it arrived on news desks ahead of the finalised Cadbury Report . |
| 9 | A 15 ml bolus of 0.1 N hydrochloric acid ( HCl ) was instilled into the oesophagus using the proximal port of the manometry catheter so that it arrived at cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 10 | He muttered something unrepeatable under his breath and wiped an exhausted hand upwards over his forehead , a distraught gesture which ruffled the short dark hair so that it stood on end . |
| 11 | Coffee was brought and poured , and the lamp moved to the table behind me , so that it shone on Conchis 's face . |
| 12 | Those who were not wearing helmets let their hair flow freely , so that it moved like seaweed in the ventilation breeze near the roof . |
| 13 | However , corporatists are sharply critical of the pluralist perspective in so far as that perspective sees the interest-groups system as competitive , " democratic " , equal , and open to all , so that it leads to policy outcomes that give fair shares to everyone . |
| 14 | So that it works like clockwork . |
| 15 | For its part , the Conservative Party , under the intellectual leadership of R. A. Butler , came to terms with the changes wrought by Labour from 1945–51 and adjusted to the new mood in the country so that it grudged towards state intervention in support of some kind of equality . |
| 16 | If we look at rule six , and we 've all been given rulebooks , if people have brought them with us , what we have to do is bend that rule so that it applies to branches , not members . |