Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] so [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law was not formulated so that men and women could exchange favours promiscuously , but rather that a woman , being unable to decide upon a marriage offered to her , might select for herself without prior commitment from the men available and willing to accept her . ’ |
| 2 | The locks were still not completed so that whatever traffic moved between then and the opening of the Foxton Flight on 1 October 1813 must have involved portage up the tramway . |
| 3 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 4 | It is a prerequisite for the smooth running of the financial markets that this trust is not abused so that the public 's confidence in the financial markets is maintained . |
| 5 | ‘ The rootzone is protected under the warmth of the polypropylene carpet and , although the grass can be kicked off during play , the roots are not damaged so that it recovers during the growing season . ’ |
| 6 | If the teaching is not orientated so that these goals may be reached , then what is achieved will not appear rewarding and so will cause discouragement and frustration ( River 1964 pp 57,170 ) . |
| 7 | In one version of the mental test the prices of items bought were printed on the answer sheet so that they did not have to be memorized : in an alternative version the prices were not printed so that it was necessary both to memorize the numbers and operate on them . |
| 8 | I recreate the absent proprietor ’ , he says in The Thief 's Journal ( p. 129 ) ; and in a 1975 interview : ‘ I would like the world , and pay attention to the way I 'm saying it , I would like the world not to change so that I can be against the world ’ ( Gay Sunshine Interviews , 79 ) . |
| 9 | When Lee pressed against the door it would not open so that she panicked , standing in the enveloping steam . |
| 10 | Things they wo n't admit so that they can keep on asking me to dinner — because my name is Goldsborough . |
| 11 | Our John and Molly they did n't go so that were eight . |