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

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1 By allowing unmediated access to a character 's mind the narrator constructs a close bond between reader and character based upon shared information and perspective , while at other times witholding the reader from that mind so that narrator and reader stand together in a position of judgemental distance .
2 ‘ Our job is to provide some activities so that people can then choose whether or not they want to be involved .
3 The European Commission is having a hard enough job getting all its members to clear out the same few channels so that Europe can have a paging system which could be used in any of its countries .
4 TGAT had the job of rationalising and elaborating this instruction so that subject working groups would operate to a common format .
5 But I hope that we will widen the net with this project so that people wo n't be scared to come forward . ’
6 The first is the ability of the Met Office to forecast cold weather in advance with some accuracy so that payments can be made in advance rather than in arrears .
7 the task can be systematized or programmed in some way so that others can carry out the routines strictly to your requirements , thus reoccurring items are frequently delegated without undue risks being incurred
8 ( We will refer to P1 as P1* in this section so that tableaux are distinguished from those in Section 11.2 . )
9 Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring .
10 It is worth describing it at such length so that readers who have not read Tolkien 's ‘ minor ’ works might develop some idea of Lewis 's importance as Tolkien 's ‘ onlie begetter ’ or ‘ miglior fabbro ’ , for there can be very little doubt that it was Lewis 's friendship and encouragement which led Tolkien to write the works which made his name with the public ; just as it was Tolkien 's friendship which released in Lewis wells of creativity which had remained ( though he was so naturally fluent ) mysteriously dry .
11 In previous World Cups , two days were allocated to each match so that contests which were not concluded on the first could be decided on the reserve day .
12 There should be wide discussion within the organisation of these aspects so that management is aware of the pitfalls ( Ackoff , 1967 ) .
13 I ask these questions so that dermatologists can provide me with evidence of their effectiveness , efficiency , and value for money .
14 Social justice means that we deny ourselves many things so that others may have to do without them as well , or , what is the same thing , may not be able to ask for them .
15 It is the policy of the group to train and develop employees at all levels so that group objectives can be met .
16 One usual method is to leave gaps at the end of each block so that records can be inserted into a block ( with only slight reorganisation of the records in that block to maintain the correct order ) .
17 The effect of a new settlement south east of York would be to increase those levels so that people with from Greater York , would find would not be able to find accommodation within the new settlement and therefore the total housing requirement of Greater York would be increased and housing needs would not be met .
18 So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that
19 We want to open up lines of communication and provide more information so that people know what is available , tell us when they are pleased with the services and , equally , let us know when they are not .
20 An Act of 1485 had already made hunting in disguise or by night a felony ; it was re-enacted several times so that Forest offenders could be prosecuted at Quarter Sessions or at Assizes .
21 Remove any buds so that energy is concentrated into building up strength .
22 We did n't want there to be any confusion so that people would automatically put us all into public services , because the majority of our members should n't be in that section .
23 The production can be halted at any point so that discussions and questions can take place .
24 Studies have been conscious of the work in other disciplines such as the Metropolitan Meteorological Experiment ( METROMEX ) which is based in St Louis ( Chagnon , Huff , Schickedanz and Vogel , 1977 ) and has greatly increased knowledge of atmospheric processes within urban areas and investigations have also led towards applications of knowledge gained from the way in which a city generates its own climate so that Chandler ( 1976 ) in a review of urban climatology in relation to urban design suggested :
25 No I , I went in at half past seven in the morning and I was in the operation theatre before quarter to nine that same morning so that morning was taken up and the afternoon and evening , Chris came in the evening tt and er oh er Bob , th the curate , our former curate , came
26 However , it is often necessary to use several solvents so that regions obscured by bands of one are free of interference in the spectrum of another .
27 More than two thousand students use the adult education facilities at the college , which even has it 's own playgroup so that mothers who want to attend classes can bring their babies .
28 The point of it is to place men and women in the same class so that partners in marriage will appear to be equal .
29 It will include the name of each street so that people can find their way about easily .
30 Essentially , in the UK the schedule of non-zero tax bands is the same for most individuals so that progression ( a marginal tax rate that exceeds the average tax rate ) is achieved by the exempt income band .
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