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

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1 Turn meat and fat out into the sieve , so that all the liquid drips through .
2 When we returned from our honeymoon , feeling bronzed and glowing , a drinks party was held so that all the rest of the family and our friends might share in our celebration .
3 In all nasal consonants , the soft palate is lowered and at the same time the mouth passage is blocked at some point , so that all the air is pushed out of the nose .
4 It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood .
5 The payment of a royalty allowed way-leave only on the one farm , so that all the quarry roads on that piece of land ran into the main drove and so down into the highway ’ .
6 During the quarter , software revenues rose 11.3% to $2,700m and maintenance revenues rose 7.1% to $1,900m , while services revenues soared 38% to $1,800m , and rentals and financing revenues rose 11.3% to $1,200m , so that all the pain was in the hardware side , although the pressure to alleviate the software burden on customers is becoming irresistible .
7 Then , at precisely 03.10 , there gushed up , as Gibbs recorded , ‘ enormous volumes of scarlet flame from the exploding mines and of earth and smoke , all lighted by the flame , spilling over into fountains of fierce colour , so that all the countryside was illuminated by red light .
8 Perhaps , in some unimaginably distant region , the cosmos simply melted away into Chaos without sane dimensions — so that all the immensity of physical reality , all the billions of light years of stars and galaxies without number , amounted to no more than a tiny archipelago within a dire and senseless ocean of absurdity .
9 And it is wise to spend time getting it smooth and level so that all the bolt holes in a prefabricated building line up correctly .
10 In the case of a matrimonial home which does not have registered title , it would seem to be accepted practice to assume that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase , so that all the husband 's solicitors need to abstract to the wife 's solicitors is the conveyance to the husband , any mortgage , any " sales-off " ( or other transactions affecting the title ) , and details of the covenants affecting the property .
11 So that that the constraint would n't apply in in those areas anyway .
12 So that that the leaflet 's going to be going out in a mega mailing .
13 The divisions are planted so that half the rhizome is above the soil surface , as they rot if covered with soil .
14 When ready each child can then join in the still image , remembering their position and expressions so that it can be recreated later , and so that half the group can move out of the image to examine the other half .
15 And I was able to do this , so that half the fee was being paid for a three-piece suite going , some boxes , to another address , and then this bedroom suite was taking the other half of the charge back .
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