Example sentences of "[vb -s] so [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mains lights are available from good garden centres and d-i-y stores , and the most versatile type for creative garden lighting is a spotlight with a spike that can be pushed into the ground and a head that swivels so that the beam can be adjusted . |
| 2 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 3 | We assume that the orbital plane has so that the metric eqn ( 4.10 ) becomes where , M is the Sun 's mass , and r is the distance of Mercury from the Sun . |
| 4 | Nor is there anything remotely convincing about its performance ; there is a feeling of some urgency from 4000rpm but the power stops as suddenly as it starts so that the 6500rpm red line is a merely a figment of someone 's imagination . |
| 5 | Chidzero announced some minor income tax concessions , raising the basic abatement and adjusting tax bands so that the top rate of 60 per cent would apply at Z$40,000 instead of Z$33,000 . |
| 6 | For a growing number , being in a good relationship is what matters so if the relationship — and therefore the marriage — deteriorates , couples choose to separate . |
| 7 | It doubles the winch reels so that the continuous loop is wound in and out simultaneously , and the camera held firm at any altitude . |
| 8 | I hope , however , that the hon. Gentleman will explain to the Leader of the Opposition that Welsh farmers could not afford to have their incomes cuts so that the money could be spent on Spanish , Greek and Portuguese farmers . |
| 9 | As it flows , the lava cools , and its initial fierce glow subsides to a less intense yellow , and more important , the viscosity increases so that the lava becomes more like treacle . |
| 10 | These groups move in extensive and exclusive home ranges so that the freely forming parties so common in chimps do not occur . |
| 11 | SuperCalc 5.5 has extended the use of fonts in printing spreadsheet ranges so that the facilities that were previously limited to laser printers now apply to most dot matrix printers . |
| 12 | The former requires so that the concentration is advected into the salt fingers little changed by diffusion . |
| 13 | He had seen fear , and bravery , too , and savagery and oppression , homes burned down , wheels smashed off carts and farm implements so that the land could not be cultivated , crops ruined — he had seen it spread everywhere and he did n't want to see it any more . |
| 14 | The time-dependent form is shown to be Applying the Laplace transform to both sides gives so that the transformed bulk modulus There is a fuller discussion of these topics in ( MP ) and in references ( Ferry 1980 ) , McCrum , Read & Williams 1967 ) including the representation , due to Gross ( 1953 ) , of the relaxation functions as Laplace integrals . |
| 15 | On April 17 the Iraqi government asked the UN to relax the ban on Iraqi oil exports so that the country could buy food and meet " humanitarian needs " worth US$942,500,000 . |
| 16 | The veil of ignorance operates so that the agent will not know his or her natural endowments , social situation , or conception of the good . |
| 17 | The disease accelerates so that the times of improvement become no longer measurable improvements but simply times of no further drastic decline ( see Q in fig ii ) … until the next time . |
| 18 | It does so when the eye catches the castle of Rapperswil towards the end of the lake on the eastern shore . |
| 19 | To suggest that what they were doing before was of low priority is a misleading simplification — could one for example conclude that if a professor moves from one department to another he does so because the former is of low quality ? |
| 20 | Thus in many cases where a buyer seeks to reject goods supplied under a sale contract , it does so because the transaction has proved uneconomical , for instance because the market has fallen , or because it has found a cheaper source of supply ; it may then sieze on any trivial breach , or any ambiguity in the contract , in order to justify rejection of the goods . |
| 21 | He does so and the company is struck by her beauty . |
| 22 | If she does so and the husband purchases the replacement house for her , and she occupies it on the same terms , a subsequent transfer to her of that house will not be within the terms of the concession ( see p18 ) because that house will never have been a matrimonial home . |
| 23 | The UCLA team has refined the method for manufacturing sample of potassium- and rubidium-doped buckyball compounds so that the entire sample is superconducting . |
| 24 | The compiler recognises the behaviour of the program as it runs so that the data can be collected and used for further program code optimisation . |
| 25 | For this reason it is helpful to record details of the elicitation and judgment process as it proceeds so that the bare bones of a grid can later have the flesh replaced . |
| 26 | In 1991 Mr Waugh succeeded in persuading the Scottish Office to relax funding controls so that the project could be speeded up . |
| 27 | The family member also progressively adapts so that the effects of the disease are largely the progressive effects of that adaptation — The disease always gets worse if it is not treated but nonetheless the family member develops ways in which he or she can somehow live with the disease . |