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

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1 Always the demand is for ‘ practical ’ skills , while academic analysis remains a despised pastime , so that even the Superintendents ' Association ( the equivalent of the Police Federation for the lower ranks ) has similarly denied any place for intellectualism for its members .
2 So much so that even the duties of an under-butler are now beyond his capabilities .
3 Ironically , the first three months of 1992 were the wettest in the this part of the country for many years , so that even the flowers in the desert , just a few miles inland , burst into bloom .
4 Like shape , scale can not be correct over the whole map , but some map projections can be constructed so that either the lines of latitude or the lines of longitude , or certain lines of latitude and longitude , have the scale correct .
5 Both effects diminish the energy received so that eventually the signals are undetectable .
6 Rain and rivers eroded the soft sandstones that had filled the lagoon basin , scouring them away so that today the reefs are exposed once more , high and dry , facing not the sea but desert covered with clumps of spinifex grass and stunted mulga trees .
7 The practical approach therefore is to group users and potential users so that firstly the members of each group require the same information and secondly the number of groups is manageable .
8 This involved the translocation of the gene responsible for resistance to the carbamate insecticide propoxur on to the male-Y-chromosome so that only the males were resistant .
9 The reason for this will become clear when the fossil faunas are examined , for post-depositional breakage of the upper and lower jaws often removes any evidence of the jaws themselves so that only the teeth are left to provide an indication of the former numbers of jaws , and this index attempts to take this into account .
10 His eyes turned up so that only the whites were left and he made an ugly sound deep in his throat , then he went forward , full-face on to the ground .
11 There was a choking rattle and his eyes turned upwards , so that only the whites showed , red-veined and protruding slightly .
12 put more infrastructure in so that then the farmers can send their children to school rather than work on the land .
13 They contained bone , but it was so broken that it could not be identified , and there was no cranial or dental material , so that apparently the heads of their prey had not been eaten .
14 In addition , these systems have built-in memories , so that once the details of a series of edits has been finalised , the actual assembly of shots onto the copy tape can be done with single-frame accuracy entirely automatically .
15 The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well .
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