Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests that a high degree of practice of a specific task in the situation where it is needed can lead to success , but whether such skills so acquired in one situation are transferable to others is a contentious point . |
| 2 | Stainless steel cleaners : Many products so described are polishes or include substances which may leave undesirable residues on food contact surfaces . |
| 3 | Seen from the ‘ inside ’ of an already symbolic universe , ‘ deviance ’ presents itself as a property inhering in the acts so characterised . |
| 4 | War had resulted from the separate acts of various leaders , none of whom wanted war as the outcome , and these separate acts so reinforced mutual fears and suspicions that war became , in a sense , unavoidable . |
| 5 | Aerial surveys can achieve the same thing , although the maps so obtained cover a smaller area . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
| 7 | The collocations so formed are therefore representative of such financial material and hence will be more specific than those from the general dictionary . |
| 8 | The value of this constant has been chosen so that the lists of collocations so produced are comparable in size with the definitions taken from machine-readable dictionaries . |
| 9 | Surfaces so treated dry very rapidly to a messy , streaky white finish at which dilute vinegar or acid cleaner should be sprayed . |
| 10 | It will offer the spine of News and Current Affairs programmes so appreciated by the Radio 4 audience : Today , The World At One , PM , the 6 O'Clock News and The World Tonight will be there , on both networks . |
| 11 | If you cross out some words and subsequently wish to restore them , the accepted way of doing it is to put dots underneath the words so deleted and to write ‘ stet ’ in the margin . |
| 12 | ‘ Walking is the progression of steps so taken that unbroken contact with the ground is maintained at each step . |
| 13 | The halfway house of floating a part of the equity of the better businesses while retaining a majority is ruled out by the fact that the units so treated have to have a three-year separate trading record first . |
| 14 | I was still on the shores of the same great sea and yet had been transported into quite another world , a place on the edge of a China which seemed to have nothing in common with those islanders so forgotten and so far away . |
| 15 | They traversed sooty halls so crammed with long-dead machinery as to be mazes in themselves . |
| 16 | The key to a successful business relationship in Japan is a successful personal relationship and nowhere in the world are business and personal relationships so intertwined . |
| 17 | Slowly he stepped across to the terrace and gazed down at her with eyes so racked with pain that Ruth 's own eyes filled to the brim with her despair and lost love . |
| 18 | They had their eyes so fixed on its wagging that some said you 'd disappeared in plain sight . ’ |
| 19 | However , the effect of ss 6 and 7 goes further because their wording is also wide enough to regulate contracts which permit the inclusion of such warranties , but then seek to nullify that inclusion by excluding liability for breach of the warranties so included . |
| 20 | It may be , of course , that what we really want is that some losses so caused should be compensated for if they result from illegal action , and some other losses compensated for regardless of whether they result from illegal action or not . |
| 21 | Herring gulls and lesser black-backed gulls are similar species , and black-backed gulls reared by herring gull parents , because some ethologist moves eggs between nests , become sexually imprinted on the herring gull : the adult lesser black-backed gulls so produced will try to mate with herring gulls . |
| 22 | In the Diplura the coxites fuse with the sterna and the styli arise directly from the composite plates so formed ( Fig. 43 ) . |
| 23 | One of the advantages so called |
| 24 | Not all sites so developed , of course , and much more research is vital before we understand the full nuances of settlement expansion and contraction . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) A person who is an employee of a holder of a licence under this Act and any other person engaged in a business which deals in alcoholic liquor , including directors , officers and employees of companies so engaged shall not act as a member of a licensing board for any purpose under this Act . |
| 26 | The amalgamation between two companies may take the form of merger proper ( when both companies cease to exist ) and the new company becomes the general successor in title of the two companies so merged , or it may take the form of a take-over when only the company so taken over ceases to exist . |
| 27 | Seat adjustment is not so easy , however ; if the seat is too close or too distant from the rudder pedals ( in those models so equipped ) , then one must deplane , pick up the seat and re-position one of four pairs of locating holes on each lower seat tube , spaced about an inch apart , on to two floor-mounted prongs . |
| 28 | ‘ The jurisdiction by this Act transferred to the High Court of Justice shall include ( subject to the exceptions hereinafter contained ) the jurisdiction which , at the commencement of this Act , was vested in , or capable of being exercised by , all or any one or more of the judges of the said courts , respectively , sitting in court or chambers , or elsewhere , when acting as judges or a judge , in pursuance of any statute , law , or custom , and all powers given to any such court , or to any such judges or judge , by any statute ; and also all ministerial powers , duties and authorities , incident to any and every part of the jurisdictions so transferred . |
| 29 | Importance has also been attached to the nature of the defended area , whether ‘ urban-core ’ or ‘ strongpoint ’ , and its relationship to the intra- and extra-mural zones so created . |
| 30 | However , it soon became clear that , not only are Indian gaols so varied that to describe any one is to create a false picture , but a description of ‘ conditions ’ alone would give readers outside India little real insight into the country 's prison system or how it is experienced by inmates . |