Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] so that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later she mastered Braille , learned to type and later took lessons from a teacher for the deaf so that she could go to school , then college and later spent her life lecturing all over the world . |
| 2 | Beginners in Japlish use that sound for both ‘ l ’ and ‘ r ’ , but more advanced speakers learn to distinguish between the two so that they can get them mixed up . |
| 3 | A pipe-freezing kit makes two plugs of ice either side of the joint so that you can cut through the pipes . |
| 4 | In many countries this process had a cumulative impact throughout the 1970s so that by the end of that decade the difference between the price paid to farmers for a crop and the price charged to distributors was highly inequitable . |
| 5 | Now , obviously , you know , yo getting the menopause out into the open so that everyone can talk about it , exchange information that that it 's not seen as a as a taboo or something to be particularly fearful of by men or women is n't going to be much good if it just makes everybody worry for er , for for the first half of o o o of their lives and , and then gibber through the second half ! |
| 6 | The combs hang vertically with the hexagonal cells on them facing outwards and tilted slightly upwards from the horizontal so that the honey , before it is capped off , does not run out . |
| 7 | The natives roam their rather less than spectacular slopes in huge gangs , effectively blocking off one tract of mountain from the next so that foreigners spend much of their time waiting for detached companions . |
| 8 | No mention of the Holy Spirit , you notice : merely a foreshadowing of the role of the disciples in being witnesses to the Messiah who had to suffer and rise from the dead so that repentance and forgiveness could be preached to the nations , beginning from Jerusalem ( Luke 24:46f ) . |
| 9 | The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 . |
| 10 | It was also announced that the country 's domestic defence industry was to be developed in the 1990s so that by the year 2000 it would be able to produce its own military aircraft , warships and submarines . |
| 11 | The plinth at the base was used as an altar , Mass being celebrated in the open so that people too afraid to move from their houses could benefit from the service . |
| 12 | Hence part of the challenge is to find ways to getting through to the uninitiated so that a much larger proportion of adults have some insight into what mathematics is about . |
| 13 | Pin a triangle next to the first so that it overlaps slightly . |
| 14 | She smiled , turning her head first to one side , then to the other so that they could all see the smile . |
| 15 | The connections should be arranged so that the ballvalve is connected to one cistern and the cold feeds to the other so that the water does n't become stagnant . |
| 16 | This process has continued from one generation of Homoeopaths to the next so that instead of the new discoveries sweeping away all the previous ideas , as commonly occurs in many ‘ scientific ’ studies , the knowledge of remedies , known as Materia Medica , is continually being added to , developed and refined . |
| 17 | All too often attention is directed away from the present encounter to the next so that response is reduced to a minimum . |
| 18 | For doors with both full nylon and full mesh panels , make sure the mesh is on the outside so that you can open the weatherproof door without letting any of the baddies in . |
| 19 | In the morning Rachaela bathed and dressed , and tugged on the bell-pull so that Cheta miraculously appeared . |
| 20 | The later parts of this grand scheme are logically dependent on the earlier so that , via his moral philosophy , Hobbes 's political philosophy is ultimately dependent on his physics . |
| 21 | Sample 2 shows apiece of rib knitting with a 2x1 rib at on side and a 2x2 rib at the other so that you can see how much difference there is between the two . |
| 22 | Suppose that the mating preference was asymmetrically arranged around the familiar so that first cousins with conspicuous plumage were preferred over those with dowdier plumage , then there would have been a relentless pressure for plumage to become more conspicuous . |