Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My advice is to locate it when it is bright , and then memorize its position so that you can find it again when it has faded . |
| 2 | Consideration there must still be but in my judgment the courts nowadays should be more ready to find its existence so as to reflect the intention of the parties to the contract where the bargaining powers are not unequal and where the finding of consideration reflects the true intention of the parties . |
| 3 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 4 | How one cell orientates itself and produces its spicule so that it fits perfectly into the overall design is totally unknown . |
| 5 | He had not wished to leave the Commons when he inherited his title in 1895 and thereafter he became an unceasing advocate of the House of Lords , defending its powers , resisting the sale of peerages , and demanding its reconstruction so that its powers could be restored . |
| 6 | A long smashed grey train halted and opened its mouth so that it could be fed . |
| 7 | It may thus be difficult for a group to organise its affairs so as to avoid the deemed attribution of the knowledge of a director who straddles two companies , in the above example , to the parent company . |
| 8 | So , this at least is indisputable : that however it may have seemed to Cole in 1944 , justification by success has lost its validity : and the loss prompts the question whether the Movement should re-appraise its purposes so as to establish Co-operation on a broader and securer footing . |
| 9 | Each one you alight upon and are fixed on , another shows its face so that you forget the former one and so ad infinitum . |
| 10 | It came from statesmen and reformers who held that entails , by precluding a free market in land , artificially raised its value so that investment became unprofitable ; it was a hindrance to a wider diffusion of ownership , which was universally held to be a precondition of increased production . |
| 11 | Whether , as the campaign team insists , it has timed its rush so that Central Office strategy and a national fervour for Conservative rule synchronise on April 9 , or whether , as critics insist , the campaign is fatally flawed , not even the pollsters will know until Thursday . |
| 12 | We are confident that the programme should continue to permit a full evaluation of the issues raised by screening newborn males for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and hope to extend its duration so that the perspectives of the families may be assessed as the boys develop symptoms and signs of muscular weakness . |
| 13 | This is because each agency has to fight for its share of the overall intelligence budget and in the process exaggerates and distorts its reports so as to pander to the whims of those who hold the purse-strings . |
| 14 | In May , 1991 , the Digital Information Group 's Software Industry Bulletin reported that SelecTronics expects to report a ‘ significant loss ’ for its financial year ended 31 March and that it is restructuring its business so that it manufactures handheld devices only when it has firm orders from its distribution channels . |
| 15 | Claws as mighty as its own batted the purestrain 's claws aside and ravaged its head so that the purestrain shrieked and hung incapacitated , blocking the gap . |
| 16 | The horse must prick its ears so that it looks ‘ happy ’ : it must not be relaxed and content with its ears backwards , either listening or resting , or else everyone will think that it is ‘ sour ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ A badger will stand its ground so if you locate where it is you can dig it up and need only one net . ’ |
| 18 | Liberal Democrats are determined to ensure that Britain changes its ways so that it become a leader , not a laggard , in facing the environmental challenge . |
| 19 | Apscore is concentrating on re-developing its products so that they are more GUI and database independent , with an emphasis on object orientation — thus linking with Apscore 's other interests , including its representation of the ObjectStore object oriented database in Australia on the Sun platform . |
| 20 | Before the fungus kills the fly , it attacks its nervous system , changing its behaviour so that it climbs to the top of the plant , puts its head down to attach its proboscis to the leaf , and sticks its abdomen up into the air , ready for the passing breezes to take the spores away when they are released . |
| 21 | As it reached each tree in turn , the tree gracefully bent over , curving its trunk so that both roots and branches touched the ground . |
| 22 | The area does not include Wakefield and Calderdale , but if the police authority has good sense , it will arrange its spending so that the benefit will also be felt outside the immediate area to which the money applies . |
| 23 | In McEllistrim v The Ballymacelligott Co-op Agricultural & Dairy Society [ 1919 ] AC 548 a co-operative society had changed its rules so as to prevent any member from selling milk other than to the society . |
| 24 | Other planets attract Mercury and perturb its orbit so that the long axis of the ellipse slowly rotates in its plane with respect to the frame of the distant galaxies . |