Example sentences of "[conj] so that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available .
2 It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing .
3 For the thirty seconds or so that the video lasted , John was alive , but I could n't hold on to it for any longer than that .
4 Check every 20 minutes or so that the water has not boiled away and , if so , replenish with boiling water .
5 ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) .
6 Holyfield came under such prolonged assault in the first minute or so that the crowd were reduced to a state of suspended animation , tensed for the moment when he would drop .
7 In this notation positive feedback corresponds to or so that the gain is increased .
8 Around 1204 , however , the two quarrelled and Eustace became a fugitive : it is with his adventures in the next year or so that the biography , composed between 1223 and 1284 by an unknown poet from Picardy , is principally concerned .
9 And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment .
10 It emerges from this case law that Article 190 requires that regulations , directives , and decisions should contain a statement of the reasons which led the institution to adopt them , so as to make possible a review by the Court of Justice and so that the Member States and the nationals concerned may have knowledge of the conditions under which the Community institutions have applied the Treaty .
11 If the treatment sessions take place in a large gymnasium , for instance , the physiotherapist will screen off a section of the space for greater privacy , and so that the patient is not distracted by seeing what is going on around him .
12 I 'm all in favour of early retirement , but actually acknowledging then , the people who retire , have that contribution , and I think we ought to be developing a way of our society to ensure that they 're able to live reasonably comfortably , and so that the pension should actually be a living wage , to enable them to be free , to make those sort of contributions .
13 Equation ( 12–1 ) becomes so that and so that the effect of mortgage interest deductions is to alter the effective marginal tax rate to and raise the value of the tax credit by bM 1 .
14 They should be based primarily on resource materials , which might include samples of language data ( spoken , written , literary , non-literary , standard , non-standard , English and other languages ) and facts and figures about languages in Britain and around the world , and associated activities which are essentially concrete and problem-based , so that the pupils can make their own enquiries , and so that the teacher can learn alongside the pupils .
15 And Fergus had made that final , overwhelming sacrifice so that Ireland should be safe , and so that the Wolfqueen should regain Tara .
16 On the other hand , when , equation ( 8.10 ) reveals that and so that the load provides the input resistance R L .
17 In terms of the reflection coefficient Γ , equation ( 9.88 ) becomes Dividing the corresponding equation ( 9.99 ) for V by this equation and putting as before shows that the impedance of the line at any position x is expressible as Since voltage nodes or minima occur when , equation ( 9.104 ) reveals that the impedance at such points is simply Similarly , voltage peaks or maxima occur when so that the impedance at these points is simply Apparently the impedance is purely resistive at voltage maxima or minima and is respectively a maximum and minimum at such positions .
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