Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To identify and measure the trade-offs that exist between economic objectives so that the policy-maker is made aware of how much of one must be given up to get more of another , e.g. 2 per cent more inflation or 0.5 per cent less unemployment . |
| 2 | for instance , it might be possible to introduce genes coding for specific receptors so as to alter the stomach or intestinal lining and provide treatment for ulcers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ To dress the Croatian thugs up as Franciscan monks so that they could escape to Italy out of the clutches of Tito 's partisans . |
| 5 | The commonly-held view that good teachers are ones who can pass on their expertise through clear explanations so as to avoid confusing their pupils has some interesting implications . |
| 6 | She stood up quickly and began rummaging in her bag , desperately looking for some francs so that she could pay the woman and leave . |
| 7 | In the same month they travelled to Bermuda for six weeks so that he might convalesce in the warmth : he responded well , and was walking more easily . |
| 8 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 9 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 10 | The ball raised approximately £40,000 for the Time Walker Education Endowment Fund , which will provide education for future generations so that they understand the vital importance of conservation . |
| 11 | Now there are chairs available for additional speakers so if they would come down it would certainly expedite the business of congress . |
| 12 | For the first time in their history the Tuareg — the largest tribe of Nomads in the Sahara Desert — recently delayed their annual migration for 10 days so as to catch the final episode of Dallas |
| 13 | Erm I 've also received information on conference accommodation and on the billboards but I 've billed those as separate items so that you do n't listen to me half off all evening . |
| 14 | ‘ … the main idea is that social phenomena are seen as existing in relation to each other , and continually developing in and through such relations so as to form at various phases contradictory forces that generate qualitatively new formations . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 17 | The scientist Robert Boyle was looking for a method of preserving corpses so that they could be used for summer as well as winter tutorials . |
| 18 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 19 | You should keep a copy order and make a note of due dates so that you can plan for the arrival of the stock . |
| 20 | The Ministero dei Beni Culturali , for example , arranges for army frogmen to take courses in underwater archaeology , while the Ministero della Marina Mercantile makes available the results of underwater surveys so that areas of archaeological interest can be identified . |
| 21 | They wanted to do lots of different ads so that they can vary them and the public wo n't get bored . ’ |
| 22 | She took a quick break for lunch , gulping down a couple of sandwiches and a cup of coffee , then spent the afternoon painting the dragon , using dozens of different shades so that he shimmered with colour . |
| 23 | We had the Astounding Reg Atkins who can juggle 12 empty bottles and then toss them accurately into a bottle bank from a distance of 30 feet so that the green , brown and clear bottles go into the correct holes . |
| 24 | The second , and much deeper , problem is that there is still far too little agreement about the themes and content in the curriculum of top juniors so that different primary schools which will ‘ feed ’ a secondary school are working on a degree of common curricular ground . |
| 25 | He is full of life an has brought home with him a number of foreign servants so that my house seems to have been removed to Paris . |
| 26 | So the true task of adult education these days ought to be first and foremost to equip a sufficient body of ordinary citizens so that they are capable of forming rationally grounded opinions upon matters of public importance . |
| 27 | erm I 'll like to deal with this in a if possible in a number of separate motions so that we can deal with the various bits of work that need to be done , but I 'll call Mr first |
| 28 | We are left with real problems of unemployment and all that goes with that with the drifting away of hospital care so that everything is centered outside the constituency ; with the drifting away of real jobs so that people have to move outside . |
| 29 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 30 | In 1983 Mr St John Stevas promoted a private member 's bill , The National Audit Bill , which sought to give the Comptroller and Auditor General access to the accounts of nationalized industries so that his staff could investigate them as they do the accounts of government departments . |