Example sentences of "so [that] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambia became caught in a vicious circle because the mining industry is also heavily dependent on increasingly expensive imports , so that over time , output , investment and productivity fell . |
| 2 | Gradual decreases in pH with time lead to prolonged acidity which interferes with fish reproduction and spawning , so that over time there is a decrease in fish population and a shift to a smaller number of more tolerant older and larger fish . |
| 3 | First phase-locking occurs , which causes the appearance of low-frequency " beat-beat " notes in the spectrum ( recall that the cavity-mode spectrum is distorted by the atomic dispersion , so that at threshold the modes will not be quite equally spaced ) . |
| 4 | Diana daubed luminous paint on the eyes of her cuddly green hippo so that at night it seemed as though he was keeping watch and looking after her . |
| 5 | This deposited material is mainly removed by the waves so that at night , when the algae emit carbon dioxide , the ensuing greater acidity of the sea water causes a chemical attack on the rock itself and not merely the redissolving of the finely divided material precipitated during the day . |
| 6 | We have seen that , under the ordinary form of a mortgage of freehold land used before the property Acts , the legal estate was conveyed to the mortgagee , so that at law he became the owner of the property ; but that the mortgagor was treated by equity as the owner — he had an equity of redemption , which was an equitable estate in the land ; and he could only be deprived of his equity of redemption in certain defined ways , e.g. by foreclosure or sale . |
| 7 | All applications , and the bulk of Taos itself is written in Virtual Processor code , so that at run-time the code is loaded onto a real processor and translated on the fly into the chip 's native instruction set . |
| 8 | All applications , and the bulk of Taos itself is written in Virtual Processor code , so that at run-time the code is loaded onto a real processor and translated on the fly into the chip 's native instruction set . |
| 9 | The apc is in fact equal to the slope of the ray from the origin to the appropriate point on the consumption line , so that at point A , the apc is equal to the slope of OA ( = 1 ) and at point B , the apc is equal to the slope of OB ( = 0.9 ) . |
| 10 | Subsequently , he steadily increases his short position in futures , so that at delivery he has 1905 contracts . |
| 11 | Thus if the stress alters continually , the summation can be replaced by an integral , and σ n by a continually varying function , so that at time t * when the stress existed , the strain is given by |
| 12 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 13 | " They 're buried standing , so that on Judgement Day they can rise straight upward . " |
| 14 | The experimental limit on A given later in Section 11.5 is so that on Earth the acceleration due to the cosmological term is about 10–22 times that due to the gravitational pull of the Sun . |
| 15 | The Company , from its very first voyage , exported bullion rather than English products and , when economists complained that this would lead to a loss of bullion which would cause deflation and depression in England , the Company replied that it exported between 50 and 90 per cent of its pepper to countries in northern Europe which paid four or five times as much silver as the Company paid in India , so that on balance its activities substantially increased the amount of bullion in the country . |
| 16 | And keep it so it 's just ticking over , so that on average you 're absorbing two of these neutrons , say and just one is going on to st start another one , and you just you know ju It 's very fine control on the fuel rods . |
| 17 | Contributions to the pension are targeted so that on retirement the tax-free cash sum , 25% of the fund value , is sufficient to repay the mortgage . |
| 18 | Slide the timber to the opposite end of the bench , so that with face towards him , he can gauge right-hand ? |
| 19 | At one stage it looked as though McCallen might catch Dunlop as he closed the gap to three seconds but it was not to be and Dunlop opened up the gap again over the last two laps so that with victory in sight he had a cushion of seven seconds . |
| 20 | The only way , however , to increase your repertoire of behaviours is to force yourself to use behaviours which are ‘ unnatural ’ so that with practice they reach the stage of being natural . |
| 21 | She must see that he was comfortable and cared for so that with contentment would come peace . |
| 22 | The ‘ I ’ at one and the same time transcends the body ( so that for instance we talk of our bodies as something separate from ourselves and say that we ‘ have ’ them rather than ‘ are ’ them ) and is immanent or present in the body . |
| 23 | Cyrene , like Syracuse , was culturally cosmopolitan , so that for instance its art owes a clear debt to Athens , witness the bronze head from the mid-fifth century , in the style of Phidias ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate xxiv , 3–4 ) ; it was multi-racial , so that the sixth-century reformer Demonax allowed one tribe for the native ‘ dwellers round about ’ , as well as one for the old Greek settlers and one for new arrivals ( Hdt. iv.161 , cp. 159.4 ) . |
| 24 | So that for instance , er starting with a base population , we 've used the Registrar General 's nineteen ninety one provisional estimates . |
| 25 | Moreover , the names were sometimes used loosely , so that for instance ‘ Presbyterian ’ congregations might in fact have been Independent or Unitarian . |
| 26 | so that for instance you can have four stops on one keyboard , three on another and the three sounds that are available on this keyboard are available from those , the four sounds that are available |
| 27 | So much so that for cricket internationals , they cancel the best show . |
| 28 | In choosing between the goals towards which I spontaneously tend , I may find myself being excited more strongly by what I perceive here and now than by what I imagine from other viewpoints , so that for example a present amusement obliterates consciousness of a future danger . |
| 29 | So that for example an alto does n't need so many notes , high notes , but needs a few more lower notes . |
| 30 | We do not find after or , , so that for example ‘ sullen ’ must be pronounced , ‘ Christian ’ as ( though this word may be pronounced with plus or instead of ) and ‘ pigeon ’ as . |