Example sentences of "so [conj] to make [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The psychoanalyst uses a more general framework of knowledge derived from other analyses , and applies the more general concepts to the individual case so as to make sense of the development of the person .
2 It was , he continued , more important than ever to ensure that leases were well-drafted so as to make landlords and/or tenants fully aware as to whether or not their insurance policies covered damage caused by terrorism .
3 The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up .
4 If , however , the CLRC 's proposal were altered so as to make mercy killing into a new qualified defence to murder , with the normal maximum sentence of life imprisonment , the central plank of the opposition to an explicit recognition of this mitigation in English law would disappear .
5 If we can understand how cells behave during development so as to make arms and brains we can then begin to ask how genes control the behaviour of the cells and so establish the link .
6 Yet others , like the pumpkin , were made of a size to be shared amongst the whole neighbourhood , and many of these larger fruits were marked on their outer rind with vertical divisions , so as to make apportionment the easier .
7 But as Hurst has emphasised ( 1976 , pp. 292 ) such pottery ‘ presents a serious problem ’ for it is often so fragmentary or ‘ unstratified ’ , so as to make study difficult ; he also describes them as ‘ cooking-pots ’ .
8 Many other worthwhile books were , like them , consigned to pulp or book sales because they were simply ‘ irrelevant to the community ’ , so as to make room for the multiple copies of paperbacks from Pluto Press and the like which the community apparently needed more .
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