Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [subord] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 2 | Each had their separate sources of funding and , as a result , would not necessarily have to chase the largest audience nor produce lowest common denominator programmes so as to please as many as possible . |
| 3 | Panel surveys involve repeated observations of subjects so as to build up a longitudinal record of the events of interest . |
| 4 | I let go of the beam and dropped with bent legs so as to splash down softly and felt the breath rush out of my lungs from the iciness of the river . |
| 5 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 6 | The user also needs to know the operations that can be applied to the relations so as to carry out the desired retrievals . |
| 7 | These Labour local authorities were developing conscious efforts to alter local economies so as to bring about long-term economic development , through job creation and job enrichment , for the benefit of local workers and the local community . |
| 8 | Scholarship involves attempting to remove all obscurities so as to come as close as possible to this essence . |
| 9 | At the same time , the English government responded favourably to peace overtures from Pope Gregory XI , who was anxious on the one hand to unite the rulers of western Christendom in a crusade , and on the other to tax the western churches so as to fund both this endeavour and his political and diplomatic schemes in Italy . |