Example sentences of "so [conj] [to-vb] [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Jaq questioned Meh'Lindi yet again so as to compare her impressions with his , a sickening realization about the probable nature of the hydra dawned on him . |
| 2 | The difficulties arise in attempting to devise a formula that will distribute the grant so as to equalise its effects on the needs and resources of all local authorities . |
| 3 | And wherever there was a suggestion of a space there would be a craftsman bent over his work : a weaver over his loom , a metal-worker crouched over a dish of grey ash fanning a lump of live charcoal in its midst with a blowpipe , a basket-worker holding what he was making with his toes so as to leave his hands free , a turner doing his turning with a little bow which might have been used to shoot arrows , the man making pegs for the ornate wooden windows . |
| 4 | We 're trying , of course , to position ourselves so as to fool our competitors into delaying or cancelling their capacity increases . |
| 5 | Having made a decision on travel as their retirement hobby , they may have to live very modestly so as to finance their trips overseas . |
| 6 | On our way to the single market , is it not time to give a healthy nudge to the metrication programme so as to enable our manufacturers and exporters to compete more fairly with our continental rivals ? |
| 7 | The Marshal had seen them as they stood gossiping in the street at an equal distance between the two buildings so as to keep their doors in view , but it would be a waste of time trying to get her to admit it . |
| 8 | The general procedure , however , is to work with the dog over a period of time , ensuring a non-conflict situation so as to overcome its fears . |
| 9 | As soon as the baby is out of nappies , it is plonked into a mini-shellsuit so as to match its brothers , sisters , mother , father and grandparents . |
| 10 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 11 | Trade unions fell into the second of these groups , but , because of their large and fluctuating membership and because of certain provisions in the Trade Union Act 1871 , it was assumed that it was impracticable to bring actions against them so as to make their funds liable . |
| 12 | Greek images were also used by physiognomists and ethnologists when they began to create racist classification systems which placed the Greek profile as the highest development of humanity , above Jewish people with African peoples lower down the scale , represented so as to approximate their profiles with those of primates and apes at the bottom . |
| 13 | Partnerships had enabled the use of community schools at Liphook and Bordon to be run so as to offer their facilities to the public throughout the year , and the new methods had reduced the inevitable deficit of the sports centre to well below the national average . |
| 14 | Let us assume that insiders are now willing to accept a real wage reduction so as to protect their jobs . |