Example sentences of "so that the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THEN you let go of the latch so that the first loop slides over and is cast off .
2 These orders may vary slightly from teacher to teacher , so that the first order , for example , might be think of not stiffening the neck … .
3 Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term .
4 You need to stop so that the first square at the left is number 46 .
5 The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written .
6 She let off a salvo of three guns , spaced so that the first ball fell well in front of the Genoese ship .
7 So that the first question for the Formalist ‘ is not how to study literature , but what the subject matter of literary study actually is ’ ( p. 102 , my italics ) .
8 Now you could have two buses doing that and forming fifteen minute service because one bus went out in thirty minutes another one fifteen minutes behind it , that came back so that the first bus was able to do the third one .
9 Multiple passes through the camera increase the difficulty of exact placing and synchronization , which is why two or four projectors are often preferable While the projectors can be used in line , with the light of one lamp passing through two or more strips of developed and printed film , so that the first image goes through the second before hitting the unexposed film , the use of four rather than two projectors generally requires the use of a prism to bring the beam of light to the camera lens .
10 You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it .
11 To help out , the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection .
12 Because of injuries and unavailability , Chelmsford were often stretched to field three teams this season so much so that the first team was left short of substitutes .
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