Example sentences of "the [noun pl] so [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I ca n't turn over The Times so that the pages lie flat , I ca n't fold up a map in the right creases , I ca n't draw corks , I ca n't drive in nails straight , I ca n't go into a bar and order a drink without wondering what everyone 's thinking about it , and I ca n't strike matches towards myself . |
| 2 | The best players ; but with so many good players we could alternate the groups so that no one felt they had been left out . |
| 3 | Since we 're talking about rules , what about erm Mrs Thatcher , Lady Thatcher wanting to change the rules so that a sitting Prime Minister ca n't be challenged . |
| 4 | Ayer 's position appears to be making the rules so that the theist can not win . |
| 5 | Quite apart from blackmail the New Zealand police had no proof that either Mafart or Prieur had planted the bombs so when the two appeared in court in Auckland on 4 November 1985 the prosecution announced that they had accepted a plea of manslaughter . |
| 6 | At the opposite extreme , whenever the signals in a nonlinear network are small enough , the network is effectively linear with respect to the signals so that the methods developed for linear network analysis may be applied with advantage . |
| 7 | Ashton makes brilliant use of this in his version of the solo , phrasing the steps so that a jump upwards can last three beats followed by two short steps or two beats followed by a long and then a short step . |
| 8 | Sadness intensifies the perceptions of the eyes so that the inner eyes see a new form of beauty like Rimbaud or like the deaf Beethoven or the blind Homer and Milton . |
| 9 | There should be a mechanism for feeding this information back to the designers so that the succeeding system designs will avoid these problems . |
| 10 | Registration does not cure any flaw in the charge itself as between the parties so that the validity of the charge remains challengeable by the company . |
| 11 | All the er all the moulds and the part pieces were all kept , you know , in a safe position behind the lines so that the it was easy for people to walk up and down without fear of accident . |
| 12 | We shall further apply a voltage between the plates so that the electrons emitted by electrode 1 are attracted to electrode 2 ( Fig. 3.4 ) . |
| 13 | The investigation had revealed that , due to low activity rates , an EPH would gain only limited benefits from computer support of isolated functions , and it was necessary to exploit the relationships that existed between the functions so that an integrated package could be developed . |
| 14 | They have notches at the sides of the wing covers near the hinges so that the covers can be replaced over the abdomen leaving the wings extended and beating . |
| 15 | Choose the position of the brackets so that the end bracket is as high up as possible and the lowest point of the gutter ( at the outlet position ) is not more than 50mm ( 2in ) below the roof drip . |
| 16 | Built in the days when the knocker-up came to each house to wake the workers , miners could chalk the times of their shifts on the slates so that the knocker-up could let them sleep if they were not due for work when he came by . |
| 17 | The bottom fold will overlap at the corners so that the paper fits in snugly . |
| 18 | Wrap it around the cake , positioning the join underneath and smoothing the fondant into the corners so that the shape is clear . |
| 19 | I rotated the nails so that a cheese paring of wax was scoured from the surface of the drum . |
| 20 | Where in registered land a new covenant is given by the wife to the building society a certified copy of the transfer containing the covenant should be lodged with the deeds so that the building society has a proper record there of the wife 's liability , the transfer incorporating the covenant itself being retained at the Land Registry . |
| 21 | Stagger the segments so that the joints of one ring do not meet the joints of the second ring segments . |
| 22 | Each worm removes about 0.05 ml of blood per day by ingestion and seepage from the lesions so that a sheep with 5000 H. contortus may lose about 250 ml daily . |
| 23 | The heat from the front room rose up through the floorboards so that the room , although bare , was warm . |
| 24 | Over the next 20 years scientists tried , mostly by trial and error , to find ways of ordering the possibilities so that the benefits of ‘ refutation screening ’ could be achieved . |
| 25 | I stretched out my whole body into the petals so that every square millimetre of my skin was softly touched , I wiggled my fingers and toes among the sweet perfumes … and I was being embraced . |
| 26 | Stretched out my whole body into the petals so that every square millimetre of my skin was softly touched . |
| 27 | Consider a cube which is disassembled into its pieces and imagine reassembling the pieces so that the outside facelets remain outside and the centres remain in the same relative positions . |
| 28 | The whole feeling of producing the correct inside attack is one of turning away , curbing the power of the right side , and then timing the hips so that the clubhead pulls the body through rather than the body pushing it . |
| 29 | You could try mixing the colours so that the roses look like a planted flower arrangement when they are in full bloom . |
| 30 | they sometimes manipulate the questions so that the person picks |