Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] so that " in BNC.
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| 1 | John 's aim had been to frighten them so that they would not again attack Derek . |
| 2 | I am training her so that she can cook for royalty , ’ Auguste declared grandly . |
| 3 | They 're building it so that they can control events in the whole of South America when things get really tough . |
| 4 | What they 're doing is they 're sending it so that somebody will place orders . |
| 5 | The central question , then , is not whether or not we should tolerate the rules and conventions , the systems of thought , the preconceptions that regulate enquiry and instruction — for if our enterprise is to have any significance at all we have to — but which rules , conventions , and preconceptions are likely to offer us the most relevant and reliable set of bearings for our work , and how we are to use them so that we can allow for their modification , or even their complete replacement , when new insights and experiences need to be accommodated . |
| 6 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 7 | ‘ You are to move me so that I may see the moon . ’ |
| 8 | The other is to disperse them so that their unwanted presence may be put more or less out of sight ’ ( p. 280 ) . |
| 9 | That 's what she 's supposed to do according to the Citizens Advice Bureau , is to control them so that she do n't annoy the neighbours |
| 10 | I was doing it so that I could have the pleasure of apologizing to such a lovely woman . ’ |
| 11 | A community nurse was visiting her so that she would n't get too lonely and depressed . |