Example sentences of "so [subord] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It controls the ray-gun so as to give out a flash every second . ’
2 parents should always arrange if possible for their children to see old people of marked interest in their lives , so as to carry on the links of tradition …
3 The user also needs to know the operations that can be applied to the relations so as to carry out the desired retrievals .
4 Jaq wondered how much effort of will it had cost her to resist ultimate , engulfing pleasure so as to gasp out a question or two to her tormenter and enchanter .
5 He thought doggedly of Carol so as to blot out the image of Helen 's sad face that seemed to have become imprinted on his mind .
6 As the clients relaxation skills develop the exercises may be combined so as to speed up the process of relaxation .
7 Lawrence then supposes that bristles grow so as to point down the concentration gradient .
8 If bristles then grow so as to point down the local gradient , they will produce exactly the pair of vortices that were observed ( Figure 14d ) .
9 As soon as the Shivah days of deep mourning were over , Mrs Neumann converted her small front parlour into a shop selling basic foodstuffs and domestic items and set up a camp-bed for herself in a corner of the kitchen by the range so as to rent out the two attic rooms to lodgers .
10 ( iv ) Teachers should discuss a variety of works so as to bring out the range and effects of different types of sound patterning , eg alliteration , assonance , rhymes , onomatopoeia , and of figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personifications .
11 utterly unnecessarily imposed so as to fatten up the privatisation turkey — and the Government have the cheek to tell us how much better things are now .
12 He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time .
13 The aim of both the part-time education and further extended full-time study , on grants , would be to acquire qualifications on a module basis , so as to build up a whole range of technical qualifications .
14 The major contribution to the promotion of community languages which these courses have made has been to discover significant numbers of good classroom practitioners , good analysts , good coordinators and good teacher trainers , so as to build up a genuine national resource in terms of expertise .
15 Panel surveys involve repeated observations of subjects so as to build up a longitudinal record of the events of interest .
16 If new proteins are to be made , the DNA must be activated in some way , so as to switch on the relevant genes .
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