Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] so that " in BNC.
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| 1 | say we 'd be , you know , be fiddle around and get to ninety six I would then turn and say to them , I will give you five hundred pounds I will knock five hundred off that so that you can put in a proper shower tray and screen |
| 2 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 3 | she 'll get paid , she 'll get paid travelling and everything for that so that er I do n't see that that 's erm |
| 4 | Parents also need to be aware when their child has behaved well and make a comment about this so that the child receives praise and recognition for good behaviour . |
| 5 | Be sensible about this so that everything will be organised and ready on time . |
| 6 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 7 | Page references were necessary for this so that pupils could quickly move from purpose to information . |
| 8 | The British Rail chairman , Sir Bob Reid , said last night : ‘ We have contacted Mr Knapp for urgent discussions and BR management are meeting him tomorrow with a view to finding a way through this so that we can avoid disruption to passengers . |
| 9 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 10 | intended to stay , because the immediate reaction to something like that happening is n't necessarily erm , all bad , I mean people are quite glad that they are still alive and they 're quite prepared to put up with the possible fallout of the consequences of that so that they can stay in their own homes . |
| 11 | So whi what I 'm trying to say to you is that you should have four sides of written text , whether it 's on two pages , three or four What I will do is go through the headings and give you a very brief description of that so that you know roughly what 's in them . |
| 12 | Were n't , although erm I was told that my father died of that so that er , I should do you mind |
| 13 | You could say that he was doing all of this so that he 'd end up behaving like one of us . |
| 14 | From the earliest possible age children should be appraised of this so that they know the importance of accepting any education offered them . |
| 15 | To keep the woodlice in complete darkness , put the black card-board on the pot ( black side down if it is black only on one side ) , then put the glass on top of this so that the weight of the glass presses the card firmly against the rim of the pot . |
| 16 | Please make copies of this so that you may use them at your convenience in the future to return information to the Council . |
| 17 | They adjust the intensities of these so that they exactly match the light from the surface , making the fish effectively invisible from below . |
| 18 | Of course , sensible managers would know that the accounts did not include any orders issued against which invoices had not been received and would , therefore , keep their own record of these so that they did not overcommit the budget . |
| 19 | There was an ache in my middle as if a rock was lodged in the place where all my habits had been — my going-to-bed routine of always brushing my teeth last thing of all so that my mouth felt glowing fresh before I curled up under my duvet and drifted off into sleep . |
| 20 | He says ideally it will be possible to predict levels of UV so that people can take appropriate precautions to guard against sun exposure . |
| 21 | Er , it 's just I feel that I 've worked all my days and did without and er er had put savings away and things like that so that when I stopped working to have children I would have money , but if you were means tested , and the money is for the children as well , anyway and the people who , you know , I do n't mean that all people , a lot of people who are supposedly not having money , and getting all these things , they sell them and things like that . |
| 22 | How terrible to adore like this so that you want to lie in the same grave and share nothing with the world but live above it like Zeus and Hera . |
| 23 | in a computer like this so that |
| 24 | It was a disgraceful piece of television , in as much as it failed completely to set one point of view against another so that genuine truth could emerge . |
| 25 | Cut notches for the scions around the edge of the severed branches and insert a scion into each so that the green layer of tissue just beneath the bark ( cambium layer ) of both scion and stock meet each other . |
| 26 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 27 | Richard Baxter said he was glad to part with all so that he had nothing left to be confiscated and that he could carry on preaching . |
| 28 | 10 % of all book sales at QPBC bookstall will go to help fund a project to translate Scripture Union 's ‘ Learning Together ’ teaching material into Hungarian so that Christians in Eastern Europe can be helped in their work with children . |
| 29 | If you push the lever down and leave it there the flaps will reach their maximum angle and the selector will automatically jump back into neutral so that the hydraulic circuit can idle . |
| 30 | Everyone in the school should be consulted and informed about Compact so that they can be aware of it as an educational resource . |