Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] so [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It may be considered advisable with small units which form a chain of enterprises to expand trading by means of partnership or sole trading so that initial losses made in new units may be offset against profit obtained through trading at established units .
2 If the interest which terminated subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include the tax .
3 The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it .
4 In the modern period capital is instead organized at a national or transnational scale so that the previous ( capitalist ) rationale for sub-national government has withered away , except for a few spatially constrained sectors of capital , such as development interests or companies engaged in extracting mineral resources .
5 They should then provide some simple writing tasks which have formal or public purposes so that there are valid reasons for encouraging the pupils to use the forms of Standard English in their writing .
6 ( ii ) They should have continuing opportunities to write for formal or public purposes so that they increase their command of the structures of written Standard English .
7 The routes to satisfaction are patterned by internal or dispositional constraints so that the behaviours concerned tend to lead to an end that is characteristic of a species .
8 If programmers need all that RAM why do n't they use Expanded or Extended memory so that they can leave a fair slice of the base memory to the system ?
9 The idea of ‘ bracketing out ’ all practical or theoretical concerns so that the immediate felt quality of a work is able to become the focus of attention is also of importance .
10 We have been in Britain more than a year now , so the Home Office has extended her visa , but each time they extend it it is only by three months or six months so that she is never eligible for school .
11 Much of Joe 's business involves supplying second-hand weapons or unmarked arms so that the manufacturing country is untraceable .
12 Institutional care is one part of a complex range of provision ; while it is right to reduce reliance upon it because of its toxic effects ( which are determined by the quality of care provided and not size alone : Huxley , 1991b ) it must be wrong to remove it altogether or reduce its scale or critical mass so that it ceases to be able to perform those functions which other services can not .
13 Because they were only half the size of a mature Thoroughbred , they were not tall enough to see over their stable doors or internal walls so that when someone opened the stable doors , the weanlings would attempt to climb the walls in sheer terror !
14 Mask spotlights with dwarf shrubs or other plants so that the lamps are not obtrusive by day .
15 Comparable trends are not found among the second category , which includes those sites where the defences are apparently arbitrarily imposed on a straggling ribbon development or urban scatter so as to provide a small defended strongpoint astride the road .
16 The Race Relations Act says that you can do this you can have courses especially for black or Asian people so as I said you have to be unemployed you have to be black or Asian and you have to live in either Radford Hyson Green St Annes Lenton or Snainton .
17 A form of voice reproduction could be built into the on-line or packaged editions so that pronunciations could actually be heard instead of inferred from the phonetic transcription .
18 For this reason one might expect there to be no large change in surface energy between liquid and solid glass so that surface tension and therefore surface energy , measured quite easily on molten glass , ought to be approximately applicable to the same glass when hardened .
19 The execution … of the Saviour 's plan required the prudent application of wise and well-judged measures so as not to injure private property , not to disturb civil order , not to expose Christianity to the scandal of sedition , not to obscure the glory of a Kingdom not of this world .
20 No , M' lud , it portrays a vile and hopeless marriage so that others may learn that only by following Christian instructions will their own marriages be happy .
21 It tends to medicalise and individualise social and economic problems so that the stress of the effects of poor housing , for example , is treated as an individual depressive illness — to be treated with psychotropic drugs .
22 ‘ Our goal ’ , he says , ‘ is to make sure the town is in good social and economic shape so that it is ready for the next century . ’
23 At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion .
24 Perhaps changing some people 's old and dated views so that soon when other young women undoubtedly become pregnant they will be protected from what I personally find I am going through .
25 A primary objective for ODA-funded BGS support for the Geological Survey Department is the training of junior professional and technical staff so that both posts may eventually be filled by local staff .
26 I am planning performances with two sopranos and two basses sharing the soprano and bass arias so that the voices are really suited to the different vocal ranges .
27 He spoke to the captain in a calm and clear voice so that others in the room could hear :
28 Women idealise male qualities of aggression , ambition and sexual confidence so that we do n't have to confront them in ourselves .
29 Now again I mentioned this last week , the idea of introducing schoolchildren at a very young age to different countries and different cultures so that in fact when they come to go on holiday on their own or with a partner it holds no fear for them unlike , if you like , senior citizens might do .
30 erm the roads are really not , not made to cope and so we have to try to get people coming in from different areas and different directions so that we do n't get everybody on one road and nobody on another .
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