Example sentences of "so that [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tidal reach of the sea fills the lake so that at all times the water is brackish . |
| 2 | Once again the control cleavage pattern reappears very slowly so that at several sites the reaction is not complete even after 30 minutes . |
| 3 | So much so that on several occasions when obliged to contact him on police matters , Markby had found him positively obstructive . |
| 4 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 5 | At present , however , it still has limited availability so that for some patients sigmoidoscopy and barium enema examination provide an alternative . |
| 6 | Commonly , there are covariations of two or more measures , such as mean size and sorting , which Griffiths ( 1967 ) illustrated as being hydraulically controlled , so that in all environments the best sorted sediments had their mean sizes in the fine sand category . |
| 7 | Staiger concluded ( 1957 , and unpublished ) that form 18 is absent from predominately exposed-coast regions , so that in such areas there can be no polymorphism for chromosomes , even in intermediate habitats . |
| 8 | First , they used variable and often vague definitions of abuse , so that in many cases it was not clear that they were dealing with established cases of abuse . |
| 9 | Where the resource areas are widely dispersed , the territory is large , and where the territory is small , the same number or extent of resource areas are closer together , so that in both cases the predator gets its food from similar sized hunting areas but from quite different territory sizes . |
| 10 | For HP 9000 Unix workstations and business servers , system-oriented software is moving from a seven-tier model to a three-tier structure based on expandability , not processor power so that in both cases , customers can increase processing power without incurring software-upgrade fees — eat your heart out , IBM AS/400 users . |
| 11 | The code in fact incorporates a degree of redundancy , so that in some cases as many as six different triplets code for the same amino acid . |
| 12 | The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin . |
| 13 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 14 | Interestingly , it cuts across several parishes , so that in some cases very small areas of parish land are isolated behind the massive earthworks of the dyke . |
| 15 | In both studies the patients were retested within a week of ending treatment , however , so that in some cases infection may have persisted . |
| 16 | As the cations are leached , the acidity rises and the phosphorus becomes re-locked with the iron and aluminium , so that in some cases at least , phosphorus is the first limiting nutrient . |
| 17 | The last syllable is usually quite prominent so that in some cases it could be said to have secondary stress . |
| 18 | In the birds , the brain has evolved so that in some groups it is comparable in size and complexity to that found in primates . |
| 19 | A further difficulty is that , within a particular culture or sub-culture , religion will have a socially defined image , so that in some circumstances respondents might feel they ought to say that they are more ‘ religious ’ than they really are , or , in other circumstances , that they are less so . |
| 20 | The proportions of individuals with these alternative life styles differ between populations , so that in some areas of the world all individuals change sex . |
| 21 | Their relation is far closer than the arbitrary link between signifier and signified so that in some contexts ( irony or double entendre for example ) connotative meanings are part and parcel of the denoted meaning . |