Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] so that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the 1860s onwards the Commons , Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society campaigned to save Britain 's rural heritage so that city-dwellers could be revitalized through contact with Nature ( a campaign that only became realistic in the era of rapid transportation by rail ) . |
| 2 | Under the old paradigm , companies are organized into a series of hierarchical tiers so that supervisors at each level can make sure that subordinates act according to plan . |
| 3 | It is essential , for instance , that environmental standards for industry are set at a European level so that companies do not compete by seeking out those locations with inadequate environmental protection . |
| 4 | This seems an odd way of going about things , but the advising panels do carry a professional adviser so that talent is not merely being judged by local civil servants . |
| 5 | In fact , the Gallery has extended the show 's run to eight months so that school children can see it this autumn and has moved the scheduled second venue , Detroit , to the end of the tour . |
| 6 | By allowing unmediated access to a character 's mind the narrator constructs a close bond between reader and character based upon shared information and perspective , while at other times witholding the reader from that mind so that narrator and reader stand together in a position of judgemental distance . |
| 7 | This continues iteratively over the possible candidates so that letter strings approach the length of the input string , illegal possibilities are ruled out and likelihoods re-computed to produce ordered resultant candidate words . |
| 8 | And the Monster was pinching Ma 's bosoms with its hideous clawed fingers so that blood squirted out . |
| 9 | ‘ Our job is to provide some activities so that people can then choose whether or not they want to be involved . |
| 10 | Collecting data in different forms so that results can be collated and compared can be done in several ways and can form the basis of much useful discussion . |
| 11 | But this , I 'm assured by Brandoni Custom , is due to the inconsistency of the old springs , and they 're currently researching an improved spring so that guitars can be equipped with original units when required . |
| 12 | The familiar adage is that ethnographic research provides depth by sacrificing breadth but , as Finch ( 1986 ) argues , it is possible to build an element of generality into this type of research not by random sampling , which is usual in quantitative research , but by constructing individual projects in the mould of similar ones in different settings so that comparisons can be made and a body of cumulative knowledge established . |
| 13 | The European Commission is having a hard enough job getting all its members to clear out the same few channels so that Europe can have a paging system which could be used in any of its countries . |
| 14 | Most often , the car parks , protecting your customer 's property , offering him or her protection ; the fire exits ( not to stop people getting in because they are already alarmed but to check that they are not obstructed ) ; the reception or foyer and other public areas so that management can see which parts of the hotel are being used by guests and roughly by how many , which is very useful if there is an emergency and you have to clear the building ; and finally as a good old-fashioned deterrent and for detection . |
| 15 | The whole isolation chamber is housed inside an outer building and is mounted on rubber blocks so that vibration from traffic etc. does not reach the volunteers . |
| 16 | Despite this , the House of Lords rejected any concept of commercial equivalence so that Lord Atkin held : It was contended that in all commercial contracts the question was whether there was " substantial " compliance with the contract : there must always be some margin and it is for the tribunal of fact to determine whether the margin is exceeded or not . |
| 17 | Different roads are marked in different colours so that motorists know how big each road is . |
| 18 | TGAT had the job of rationalising and elaborating this instruction so that subject working groups would operate to a common format . |
| 19 | As well as carrying food , the CARE airlifts , which will soon be taking in enough seeds and tools for 50,000 families so that people can begin to help themselves . |
| 20 | Bloom must accept a particular life so that Joyce need not , and Stephen must be shown in his byronic self-deception so that Joyce need not . |
| 21 | Erm also there could be th will cause other climatic changes so that people who do n't normally get rain will get gallons and gallons of it . |
| 22 | Hincmar had already observed that " because the realm consists of many regions " , court officials should be selected from different regions so that provincials with problems would feel confident of a hearing at the palace . |
| 23 | The function of the state was to plan the social environment so that individuals could more fully realize themselves . |
| 24 | When fine materials are present it is necessary to separate them by wet sieving so that sands and the silt/clay fraction may be examined separately using different size determination techniques . |
| 25 | He spoke to the captain in a calm and clear voice so that others in the room could hear : |
| 26 | Though God is totally free of culture he chooses to clothe his message in cultural form so that people will immediately see its relevance and feel its impact . |
| 27 | Logistically it presents plenty of challenges : for instance trying to arrange cataloguing in many different fields so that entries present a certain conformity ; giving a certain ‘ look ’ and ‘ feel ’ to the sales , is also difficult . |
| 28 | But I hope that we will widen the net with this project so that people wo n't be scared to come forward . ’ |
| 29 | They also identified that more passive people were likely to accept the idea of residential care so that homes are more likely to have as residents the ‘ passive responders ’ rather than the ‘ active initiators ’ identified by Evers ( 1981 ) in her study of a long-stay hospital ward . |
| 30 | I rubbed the creature 's tiny wrist against the broken glass so that blood poured down on to the bed . |