Example sentences of "so [that] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( a ) Stamp duty The circumstances envisaged in this chapter fall within s83 of the Finance Act 1985 ( see Chapter 2 ) and a certificate that the instrument falls within Category H of the Schedule to the Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) can be given so that no stamp duty is payable .
2 When a voltage is applied to the tip of the AFM needle ( which is kept far enough away from the surface so that no tunnelling current can flow ) , the dopant 's electrons are disturbed and exert an electrostatic force on the tip .
3 We aim to reduce maximum class sizes so that no registration class in the country need have more than 30 pupils .
4 Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season .
5 But there 's a great public interest in history in this country , so that every football club , every voluntary organisation , erm every town erm wants somebody to write its history .
6 We need electoral reform so that a minority government with a 100seat advantage can not implement the extremist policies of the Eighties again .
7 The purpose of these ports was to spread out American naval forces so that a sneak attack could not cripple the fleet , although others suggested that their intent was actually to spread the pork as widely as possible .
8 Hinged along its top edge , it was possible to open the gun so that a film loop could be inserted round its profile .
9 So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important .
10 The overall aim is to improve the education and training environment so that a teacher/student ratio of 1:12 will be realised , and that ‘ the facilities available for education and training should be no less than the best provided in higher education establishment ’ .
11 So much so that a theatre fireman laughed so loud that he fell over , accidentally rang the firebell and brought the curtain down prematurely .
12 Then , through a series of interpreters , they called for the Nez Perce to cease making war upon other tribes , so that a trading post could be established .
13 The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install .
14 If the filling-in soil is a little moist , so that a moisture contact is made with the wet soil underneath , there should be no need for further watering .
15 It has been suggested that the supply of slaves dried up and that slaves are by their nature infertile , so that a slave population dies out if not constantly recruited ; but neither proposition can be defended .
16 I rotated the nails so that a cheese paring of wax was scoured from the surface of the drum .
17 The pace of change varied according to the region so that a building layout considered out of date in one area might still be fashionable in another .
18 The United Kingdom introduced legislation requiring the fitting of a ‘ dim-dip ’ device , invoking safety grounds , but it was held that the EEC directives on motor vehicle headlights regulated the matter in an exhaustive manner , so that a Member State could not require a form of lighting which was not listed in those directives .
19 The French manufacturers Arva , who have been making an interesting alternative range of transceivers for some years , have now developed a system of amplifying the radio signal so that a ski patroller in a helicopter can home in on a buried skier .
20 Provide the inside with a channel so that a table tennis ball thrown in the top will come out of the front .
21 The seed of such plants loses its viability — ability to germinate — more quickly , so that a spring sowing is likely to result in fewer seedlings .
22 Note that for total safety , the command procedure must also trap to the Exit routine on errors , so that a VMS error can not leave the user at the DCL prompt with any of the default privileges .
23 In general , it is fair to say that one can use a magnification of × 50 for each inch of aperture ( forgive my temporarily reverting to Imperial measure ! ) , so that a 3-inch refractor will bear a magnification of × 150 , a 6-inch will bear × 300 , and so on .
24 What 's the point of loading the reel with an unbranded twist that ‘ looked right ’ , when you can be sure that at some time or other the varying tensions on this material are going to produce lively snarls and inevitably weaken it , so that a line break happens just when you least want it .
25 Modulation to keys on the flat side is usually limited only to the subdominant , so that a chord progression something like the following is used :
26 So there 's no water shortage as such , sometimes you get the water problems when you get out in the sticks somewhere you 'll , you , you do have problems , but all fire officers are trained to search their areas and have special cards er which they 've done their research on , where the water supplies are , like ponds and lakes and so on , and that information is readily available when they turn out these areas so that a fire crew going out there , your nearest water supply is a pond at and certain area and they 've got that you see .
27 It is necessary to identify a subpopulation of patients with CLO who are at especially high risk of developing adenocarcinoma so that a screening protocol that is cost effective and has an impact on patient survival can be developed .
28 Trainer Geoff Lewis was caught out by a special 48-hour deadline introduced this year so that a consolation race , the Spring Handicap for horses who miss the Lincoln cut , could be staged at Doncaster today .
29 Alternate keys can be duplicated , unlike primary keys , so that a department code could be an alternate key and allow searches to be carried out to select personnel from a particular department .
30 Those at either end of the line usually advance rather faster than those in the centre so that a pincer movement develops .
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