Example sentences of "so [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the Scottish Daily News , the study finds that it was inadequately financed from the outset ; was poorly equipped ; so applied the principle of workers ' control as to make ‘ executive decision taking impossible if not farcical ’ ; and produced an unacceptable product . |
| 2 | The 1921 Act revoked this unworkable requirement and so condoned the concept of test auditing and , in more recent times , the adoption of a systems-based audit . |
| 3 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |
| 4 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
| 5 | He was fortunate enough to marry Louis XII 's only daughter and so became the appointed successor . |
| 6 | NOTHING in Neil Kinnock 's eight and half years as Labour leader so became the man as his dignified acceptance of his party 's calamitous general election defeat . |
| 7 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 8 | Bishop Tubbs did not have this copy in his hand and so asked the 1662 question , and Madge was asked if she would obey . |
| 9 | So asked the paper 's business manager Dave Hall in February 1969 . |
| 10 | Ken had chosen the restaurant , but was frightened of being pestered by fans , so asked the head waiter to produce the screens . |
| 11 | The difficulty is that the sites which have been extensively excavated , and so produced the largest quantities of pottery , such as Corbridge and Newstead , are multi-period , and the stratification of the excavations early in the century , consequently suspect . |
| 12 | Soon the curtains were drawn by four o'clock and there were days when the mist and rain so muffled the sounds of the world outside that there was almost complete silence . |
| 13 | To go out well-dressed , he checked his appearance in the mirror , and so draped the toga on his body that a graceful knot gathered the folds , arranging them not randomly but with care , so that the sinus was composed to flow down the side , defining its outline . |
| 14 | Having regard to the true construction of section 9 of the Act , the House concluded that the refusal of the council to make a refund was not in accordance with the statutory intention and so affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 593 allowing the taxpayers ' claim for judicial review of the decision . |
| 15 | ( 25 ) If someone who has been instructed to construct a building is prepared to give the money to the town for it to do so itself , since the testator wished this to be done by that person himself , his plea will not be heard : so ruled the late emperor Marcus in a rescript . |
| 16 | He was absolutely right ; shocked a minute after training , most chicks showed amnesia and so pecked the bead when they were tested some hours later ; delay the shock to ten minutes after training and most chicks avoided it subsequently . |
| 17 | Sarah smiled but felt embarrassed , so made no reply as she followed her mother . |
| 18 | Several misgivings later , I was relieved to see a car stop , and so made the acquaintance of Peter Mulhooley . |
| 19 | When a plant has been placed in a low-humidity environment likely to cause water stress the measurements taken so far have always decreased and so revealed the stress . |
| 20 | The Butterley Company found that men whose wives could not find work were less likely to stay at Ollerton , and so planned the building of factories in the village which would ensure both that men were not lost and that family incomes could be supplemented . |
| 21 | So got a special pass because you 're a firearms officer which is essentially deals with your authorisation to have a gun and reminds you of the law . |
| 22 | But though the stream rose on his own land , he had not obtained the proper extraction licence and so got the water free . |
| 23 | Christine reached the hut from the road by a steep track through the scrub and so avoided the house . |
| 24 | Ian got in earlier than any of the clerics and so avoided the business of greetings . |
| 25 | Story has it that when Minton hung this portrait at Allen Street it so offended an art critic that he spat at it . |
| 26 | Cressid , I love thee in so strained a purity , That the blest gods , as angry with my fancy , More bright in zeal than the devotion which Cold lips blow to their deities , take thee from me . |
| 27 | But although she was also one of Kraus 's greatest admirers she had dared to read Heine , of whom Kraus had once said : ‘ Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today even little salesman can fondle her breasts . ’ |
| 28 | So charged the impetuous foe at Agincourt |
| 29 | On this occasion the publicity or discussion in the town had had the beneficial effect that the first victim recognised the matter was being taken seriously and so reported the earlier incident . |
| 30 | This happened to many punters who shorted bank stocks last year just as the Federal Reserve eased interest rates and so triggered a sharp rally in bank share prices . |