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

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1 So where Bangladeshis spent periods of time in the United Kingdom interspersed with periods in Bangladesh and then brought their families to the United Kingdom , took temporary accommodation , and then applied to be treated as a homeless person , it was held that the local authority was entitled to refuse them .
2 So where Schleiermacher had drawn a sharp line between theology and philosophy , rejected metaphysics as an avenue of approaching truth , and stressed consciousness as lying deeper than rationality , Hegel subsumed theology under philosophy , and gave reason the highest place .
3 So although M&S is regarded by the stock market analysts as a superbly run business , the lack of real growth in consumer spending has led some to say sell the shares mistakenly in my view .
4 So although Attlee 's cabinet of the post-war years was instrumental in promoting and drafting the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms , few thought it necessary or desirable that this guarantee of freedom should become part of English law .
5 So although BT 's pricing ( £399 ) does cover single purchases , many aspiring users will need to acquire their Relate 2000 's in pairs ( £749 ) .
6 Andrew Neil is very litigious for an editor ( ‘ Randy Andy Gets a Grandy ’ , you may remember , as The Sun put it in January ) , so although Pamella told me lots of … interesting things about him , I 'd better tread carefully .
7 So although Frazer was doing a kind of anthropology that was later to be rather dis despised , it had something to be said for it .
8 The Pools were working summer hours so although Joe was off it was a school day .
9 So once Posi had drifted the ship down near the surface , I prepared myself for my descent — the cylinder in a carry-net slung over one shoulder , a hand raised to hold on to my hairpiece .
10 So once Alan gets his er I
11 So that Ulster as Ulster will remain evermore
12 So that Ulster as Ulster will remain evermore .
13 ‘ They should stay where they are so that Ulster people can continue to enjoy the excellent facilities and services available . ’
14 The only ‘ regional ’ element in the arrangement was that three of the network companies ( Granada , Central and Yorkshire ) out of the five ( since Yorkshire joined in 1968 ) had a base outside London ; so that Granada 's Coronation Street , say , had ‘ authentic regional accents ’ ( quite an innovation in their time ) and escaped a metropolitan bias .
15 The 15 other boys in his class are having their heads shaved so that Mark will not be out of place when his hair falls out during his treatment .
16 But I got twe so that Mark blamed it on me but I 'd sussed it , as soon as starts tramping
17 Moving her arm , so that Ellie 's hand fell away , she stepped back .
18 He took a stick and poked the leaves till they glowed , orange flames flickered around the strap and the helmet began to shrivel , slowly becoming unrecognisable , so that Barnes would n't pull it out later and bring it back to the house .
19 Such an approach has been influential even amongst professional historians , so that Lawrence Stone , for example , hints at such a cyclical explanation in his own work on The Family , Sex and Marriage : ‘ In terms of both sexual attitudes and power relationships , one can dimly begin to discern huge , mysterious , secular swings from repression to permissiveness and back again . ’
20 In Willig 's example also , it is necessary for the workings of the scheme that marginal price exceeds marginal cost ( so that HJKL > 0 ) .
21 He came over to the bed , holding up his hand to shade his eyes from the bedside light , and peering almost comically close , so that Tessa could smell the whisky on his breath .
22 Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn .
23 Julian mentions a case of exactly this kind : ‘ I bequeath Stichus to Titius ’ or ‘ let my heir give [ Stichus ] so that Titius may manumit him ’ ( Stichum Titio lego vel heres meus dato ita ut eum Titius manumittat ) .
24 At any rate , his strange story , told thirty years later , forges another link in the chain of associations , so that Wordsworth , years afterwards , in the last stanza , can still see Matthew ‘ at that moment ’ of finishing his story , though he too , at the time of writing the poem , is also ‘ in his grave ’ .
25 It tried to jump off the table and had to be held firmly so that Sophie could freeze the surrounding area before lancing it .
26 So that Dunbar would be in no position to hand it over to the enemy .
27 It leapt high , jaws snapping , body arced so that Trent thought that he would hear its spine snap .
28 The man ducked , weaving to his left so that Trent 's fist caught him high on the right cheek .
29 No path existed so that Trent had to force his way into a wall of vegetation .
30 Thunder rolled over and round them from every direction so that Trent had the sense of being in the interior of an enormous drum on which giants beat from all sides .
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