Example sentences of "so [verb] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 2 | The locked cabinet was so named because there is a painted black shadow behind each knife to enable officers to keep a tally of those in use . |
| 3 | Last week Frankfurt finalised the WOMBAT negotiations with Albania and Mongolia , and their currencies were absorbed into the Global Numismatic Unit ( GNU ) , so named because one specimen was ‘ minted ’ ( made in metallic hard-copy form ) into what our grandmothers used to know as a ‘ coin ’ . |
| 4 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 5 | That , though , is to negate the mental difficulty of the latter stretch , especially through the watery Amen Corner holes , so named because if you put a ball in the drink , you can say Amen to your chances . |
| 6 | In the two-roomed apartment on the Rue de Montparnasse , Beatrice kept a ‘ twixty ’ , a bottle of brandy so named because it was never full and never empty . |
| 7 | The Nones were so named because they occurred on the ‘ ninth ’ day before the Ides . |
| 8 | They were so named because of their comfortable leather seats on the lower deck . |
| 9 | Waterloo Bridge , so named because it was built in the year of the battle ( 1815 ) , is one of the oldest of the iron bridges of considerable size . |
| 10 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 11 | church in the Strand , so named because various Danish Kings are said to be buried there . |
| 12 | part of the slum area of St Giles 's , west London , between Bloomsbury and Covent Garden , so named because it is the point of convergence of seven streets . |
| 13 | Shortly after this , we arrive in the village of Câmara de Lobos ( 9km ) , an attractive fishing village so named because Zarco saw seals here ( lobos means ‘ wolves ’ , i.e. ‘ sea wolves ’ ) . |
| 14 | We have since learnt from an unreliable source that Arlo is so named because Mr and Mrs Bez were trying to work their way through a baby 's name book and got bored with it by the end of the ‘ A ’ section . |
| 15 | Partially stenosed coronary arteries can often be re-bored using a hi-tech version of the pipe-cleaner known as a balloon catheter , so named because it can be blown up at the appropriate moment to expand the narrowed segment . |
| 16 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 17 | The next one was the Castle ford , so named because it lay directly under the castle rock , although almost two hundred feet below . |
| 18 | The car park — so named because Chichester is twinned with Chartres in France — is included among 29 regional winners which go forward for national awards later this year . |
| 19 | Woolly alder aphids are so named because they produce clumps of woolly wax from their bodies . |
| 20 | The scorpion fish , so named because the effect of its sting is much like that of a scorpion , is a dramatically beautiful reef fish , boldly striped in red , pink and white , measuring 10–15 cm ( 4–6 in ) in length , with greatly elongated fins . |
| 21 | The toxins secreted by the skin are among the most poisonous substances known , and these frogs are so named because the Noamana , Choco and Cuna Indians of Colombia use the poison to tip their arrows and blow-darts . |
| 22 | The band 's guitar tech , Mole — so named because of the way he squints through his rounded spectacles — punches a continuous barrage of Ramones hits into the jukebox , and drummer Fyfe Ewins models a beret he 's liberated from Lord knows where . |
| 23 | They loved the way acts like Hüsker Dü and The Minutemen ( so named because , in the beginning , all their songs were under a minute long ) made sharp , concise statements about love and life , without introducing dubious concepts ( that came much later ) . |
| 24 | At press time Sun was still chipping away at the price of the Tsunami Classic , so named because Sun expects it to become the standard by which all others are judged . |
| 25 | All outsiders required protection , so business was good for ‘ the technicals , ’ so named because the UN could not employ gangsters and paid them instead as technical assistants . |
| 26 | There are various optical systems , but the most common , at least in amateur hands , is the Newtonian , so named because the principle was first demonstrated by Isaac Newton more than three hundred years ago . |
| 27 | However , there are two exceptions : the Magellanic Clouds , so named because they were recorded by the Portuguese explorer Magellan in his voyage round the world — though they must have been noticed earlier , because they are very bright — and the Large Cloud is visible with the naked eye even in moonlight . |
| 28 | The metalinguistic proposal ( Goodman , 1965 ) , so named because , at any rate in the first instance , it presents conditionals as being about other linguistic entities , is along the following lines . |
| 29 | The most frequently encountered variation of the boteh is known as the mir or mir-i-boteh design , so named because the village of Mal-e-Mir , in the Serabend district of west central Persia , was renowned for fine quality rugs in this design . |
| 30 | Thanksgiving Buildings ( Fig. 36 ) , which Roberts designed himself , so named because they were built with money given in thanksgiving for the removal of the cholera , were less expensive , ls. per person in a double room . |