Example sentences of "so that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short story in prose or verse which is written so that a moral may be learnt from it . |
| 2 | The test would need to be constructed so that a range of marks is produced , for a narrow band of scores would not discriminate sufficiently to facilitate the allocation of pupils . |
| 3 | The floating charge holder will take the company 's property subject to the rights of anyone claiming by title paramount , so that a landlord can re-enter and can distrain on chattels in the leased premises if rent is unpaid , notwithstanding that the chattels are comprised in a charge which has crystallised . |
| 4 | We need electoral reform so that a minority government with a 100seat advantage can not implement the extremist policies of the Eighties again . |
| 5 | He paused , the butt of his cigar held against his brow , so that a cataract of white spume dribbled down into his eye socket . |
| 6 | The purpose of these ports was to spread out American naval forces so that a sneak attack could not cripple the fleet , although others suggested that their intent was actually to spread the pork as widely as possible . |
| 7 | Generally speaking the offshore profile is much more gentle , so that a fall in sea level of 30 m ( 100 ft ) , for example , will cause a displacement seaward of the shoreline to the extent of anything between a few hundred metres and perhaps 20 km ( 12 miles ) . |
| 8 | Then she took one step more towards me so that a bar of light fell across her face and I could see the angry expression on it . |
| 9 | the acceptable proposition that some shared morality is essential to the existence of any society , to the unacceptable proposition that a society is identical with its morality , as that is at any given moment of its history , so that a change in its morality is tantamount to the destruction of a society . |
| 10 | He was , however , a preacher and a man of goodwill rather than a leader and man of action so that a change of leadership had become desirable when he retired . |
| 11 | Similarly , and for the same reason , it is of the nature of text to under-determine its interpretation , particularly so in the case of literature , so that a text is objectively compatible with an open array of readings relativised to different contexts and interests . |
| 12 | In componential analysis it is usually taken as an obvious primitive feature , so that a word like wife would have the feature [ -male ] . |
| 13 | The British Government lifted red tape restrictions so that a charity here could fly in the eight-month-old girl , and give her the best chance of survival . |
| 14 | Similarly , the course of improvement from infectious illnesses accompanied by fever has been commonly held to be intimately connected with sleeping , so that a fever typically " breaks " during the night , while the temperature reaches a maximal high , and then as it reverts to near-normal the patient falls into a deep restorative sleep . |
| 15 | So I would arrange the tank decor so that a divider can be inserted if necessary , and have a suitable sized piece of glass or clear plastic ready just in case . |
| 16 | In such a case , a sideshoot is always used and is literally torn off the parent stem so that a sliver or " heel " of bark and inner tissue is still attached to the cutting . |
| 17 | But it is difficult to imagine that shaikhs had more power in the pre-Sanusi period than in the 1970s : if anything , accretions of status increased their authority during the Italian government and the kingdom ( so that a shaikh was an obvious candidate for the office of al-mukhtar al-mahalli ) . |
| 18 | The Conservative Education Association strongly urged the government to amend the legislation so that a majority of parents on the register would be required to vote for opting out . |
| 19 | Hinged along its top edge , it was possible to open the gun so that a film loop could be inserted round its profile . |
| 20 | In many cases , the community 's total landholdings were divided , so that a share known as the mensa ( " the table " ) was earmarked for the community 's maintenance , the rest being available for the lay-abbot 's management and the king 's service . |
| 21 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 22 | Such an edge should be set just below the level of the turf so that a machine can run smoothly over the top — simply neaten up once a year with a half moon iron or spade and save that chore of hand edging . |
| 23 | That does not answer the burning problem of law-breaking on a Sunday , especially when the House has not been afforded the opportunity even to debate the matter in full so that a consensus of hon. Members can be taken . |
| 24 | Poppy seeds sprinkled on bread as a flavouring have a disconcerting tendency to react chemically in the same way as the extract of the opium poppy , so that a worker could be mistaken for a heroin user because of what he ate for breakfast . |
| 25 | In addition , tasks are prioritised so that a worker can know how to cope with competing demands , Interviewing still tops the list , but other activities that are high on the list may surprise more traditional bureaux . |
| 26 | And in this case we had to align the timber so that a sheet of plasterboard would line up with the projecting wall |
| 27 | In response to this stimulus the larva releases its own exsheathing fluid , containing an enzyme leucine aminopeptidase , which dissolves the sheath from within , either at a narrow collar anteriorly so that a cap detaches , or by splitting the sheath longitudinally . |
| 28 | The overall aim is to improve the education and training environment so that a teacher/student ratio of 1:12 will be realised , and that ‘ the facilities available for education and training should be no less than the best provided in higher education establishment ’ . |
| 29 | This rationality is well described by a former head of the British civil service , Sir Douglas Allen : ‘ The desire for uniformity of treatment , coupled with accountability for decisions , require elaborate codes and rules so that a multiplicity of decision-makers can produce acceptably similar results in similar cases ’ ( cited in Thomson 1983 : 141 ) . |
| 30 | However , in practice insufficient weight is often given to this aspect of a recruitment policy , so that a firm committed to an internal promotion policy will have to make do with available talent for future promotions . |