Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] so that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Check every 20 minutes or so that the water has not boiled away and , if so , replenish with boiling water . |
| 2 | Erm , it is perhaps only in the last er , six months or so that the erm , turnaround in the fortunes of erm , er , B Sky B have been acknowledged and er , I think there has been an element in our thinking that we wanted to keep our dry er , until such time as er , B Sky B which we have great belief and faith in and our , as you know we increased our investment during the year erm , sees its way through to profitability and I 'm happy to say that that 's happening now at a reab reasonable rate and that that means that it is highly unlikely that the hundred and thirty million of guarantees that we still have outstanding to B Sky B are likely to be called . |
| 3 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
| 4 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 5 | Holyfield came under such prolonged assault in the first minute or so that the crowd were reduced to a state of suspended animation , tensed for the moment when he would drop . |
| 6 | It was only in the last week or so that the two of them had fallen out . |
| 7 | For the thirty seconds or so that the video lasted , John was alive , but I could n't hold on to it for any longer than that . |
| 8 | If the husband is prepared to remain liable under the mortgage he should remain a trustee of the legal estate ( which could stand in the names of the husband , the wife and new husband ) so that he will know the state of the mortgage account and so that a further advance or a second charge can not be created without his consent . |
| 9 | Around 1204 , however , the two quarrelled and Eustace became a fugitive : it is with his adventures in the next year or so that the biography , composed between 1223 and 1284 by an unknown poet from Picardy , is principally concerned . |
| 10 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 11 | [ 6,7 ] They naturally concentrate on older children who begin to use words but who need translators and guides so that their words and behaviour are understood by adults and so that the actions of well-intentioned doctors and nurses can be made less threatening to the child . |
| 12 | It emerges from this case law that Article 190 requires that regulations , directives , and decisions should contain a statement of the reasons which led the institution to adopt them , so as to make possible a review by the Court of Justice and so that the Member States and the nationals concerned may have knowledge of the conditions under which the Community institutions have applied the Treaty . |