Example sentences of "so that [noun prp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two Jamaican boys in there and they made a point of crowding the counter , holding their elbows akimbo , so that Shiva was unable to pick up his paper from the pile in front of them . |
| 2 | Mellanby arrived in time to be heard , and succeeded in changing the decision so that Florey was appointed . |
| 3 | It may be that Archbishop Jaenberht refused to consecrate him so that Offa was driven to establishing a metropolitan see at Lichfield in order to procure an archbishop who would perform the ceremony . |
| 4 | Harbury tried to grab the apparent opportunity but Wickham neatly turned the conversation so that Shildon was able to go on where he had left off . |
| 5 | The Peace of Paris left France and Spain ready to look for revenge , and Britain 's hasty departure from the war left Frederick feeling betrayed , so that Britain was quite likely to be involved in another war soon , and a war for which it would be hard to find allies . |
| 6 | Both marriages were childless ; so that Elizabeth was the last direct descendant of William Shakespeare . |
| 7 | There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate . |
| 8 | By the 1850s the tradition had declined , so that Baudelaire was seeking to give new life to a decayed literary genre . |
| 9 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 10 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 11 | He took a slight step forward and , taking his friend 's chin in his hand , lifted his face so that Ludovico was forced to look up into his eyes . |
| 12 | It was advice Erika took seriously , distancing herself from Fritz as much as possible and adroitly using Rosa as a shield so that Fritz was forever baulked in his obscure desires . |
| 13 | Swayne wore rust-coloured trousers and a matching pullover , his movements were erratic , rapid yet precise , so that Wycliffe was reminded of a little red monkey . |
| 14 | Though he was always in evidence it was invariably Madame who did all the talking , giving orders , fussing around clients , so that Paula was never quite certain what his role was . |
| 15 | But the Bemba language translator used the word ukubstanduka , which means ‘ to boycott them ’ , so that Kaunda was quoted in Bemba as saying that Zambians should shun or have nothing to do with Britons in Zambia . |
| 16 | But even if he denied involvement , no one would believe that he had not arranged matters so that Sipotai was killed . |
| 17 | He was drunker now , a definite sway , but his stance too , and he seemed bigger , thicker , so that Anton was trapped , like baited , as netted as a fish or a bird . |