Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] so that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 2 | Before Mr Stewart was charged , there was a tacit agreement that pilots could admit flying problems in private so that others could be warned in time to avoid disaster . |
| 3 | At Exeter , the bishop 's palace was used as a bakery and the cathedral became a centre for preaching , a wall being built to divide the building in two so that Presbyterians and Independents could worship separately . |
| 4 | In this case , the question of mens rea was crucial , the defence arguing the relevance of the BBFC 's decision to refuse a national certificate in 1970 so that the film could first be assessed by a representative sample of local licensing authorities who were more closely in touch with community standards . |
| 5 | Currently a ‘ non-executive director for hire ’ , he gave up his partnership at Arthur Young in 1987 so that he could devote adequate time to his role as chairman of the Eurogroup for Animal Welfare . |
| 6 | In order for this to happen it is imperative to educate people in general so that we may have a much greater knowledge of the fundamental causes of both health and ill-health . |
| 7 | Fold the rope in half so that there 's a loop in the middle . |
| 8 | That does not answer the burning problem of law-breaking on a Sunday , especially when the House has not been afforded the opportunity even to debate the matter in full so that a consensus of hon. Members can be taken . |
| 9 | The later Lives of Aethelberht place his accession in 779 so that the suspicion must arise that this note is perhaps based on a misreading of a king-list which concluded by simply listing these names and misled the annalist into thinking that the kingdom had been partitioned among them . |
| 10 | But with either system , the same crops are not allowed to be sowed for more than one year in four so that any soil disease is not perpetuated . |
| 11 | They gave up other rings and wore iron ones in public so that they could be seen to have done their duty , which was what really mattered . |
| 12 | By the end of the seventeenth century the Anglican church in England was developing institutions to serve American needs : the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge was launched in 1699 and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1701 so that the established church could help its brothers in the colonies who were exposed to much more competition from other Protestants . |