Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [vb infin] so [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes . |
| 2 | Associations can be formed by allowing two networks to intersect and interact so that patterns of activity in one network can evoke predictable patterns in the other . |
| 3 | Adults and children spend time learning to read and write so that they may recover and renew what is best even though it is all sadly threatened again by those who destroyed it a generation ago . |
| 4 | It 's for you to study and peruse so that you |
| 5 | Every night a vila — a wicked fairy who lived in the clouds and mist up at the top of the mountain-caused the whole hillside to tremble and heave so that the walls fell down , the stones fell apart , and all their work was to do again . |
| 6 | Yet — and here again the comparison with Venice seems particularly appropriate — there is evidence that in recent times those foundations of society have begun to crumble and decay so that , just like the Serenissima , society today faces ever higher spring tides of modernity which threaten to overwhelm the traditional basis of the social order , perhaps even to destroy it altogether . |
| 7 | A great deal of thought may be needed to adapt and adjust so that hearing loss causes as little strain as possible . |