Example sentences of "[verb] so [conj] they [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all the fine statements that young people are the future of the country , they are still a disadvantaged group and will remain so until they are made a priority policy target . |
| 2 | Thus conditions not in themselves inhuman or degrading became so when they were combined with other bad conditions . |
| 3 | It is assumed that within a single erosional system all elements of the topography are mutually adjusted so that they are downwasting at the same rate . |
| 4 | I thought Eng v SM was 16th & Pol vs Hol 17th but I 've heard that they 've been rescheduled so that they are played at the same time . |
| 5 | The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 6 | to look at er , a P R job about changing the way those resources are used so that they 're used in the way that 's been talked away , er , talked about tonight which is way that clearly many wo , many women want to see them being used . |
| 7 | However , most people fail to do so unless they are admitted . |
| 8 | This is one case where , again , I make the point that I am proud to stand here and support the policies of the Adam Smith Institute which every Tory Member should also support , but unfortunately they are afraid to do so because they are facing a general election , knowing that they will be out of power within six months . |
| 9 | In our view , Clause 28 does not stop them doing so unless they are setting out intentionally to promote homosexuality … . |
| 10 | They were doing so because they were beginning to take a more optimistic view of the housing market and the economy in general , he added . |
| 11 | This was important , because a national study in 1965 showed that one-fifth of women who were working part-time did so because they were caring for a sick or elderly person . |
| 12 | Whilst showing proper reluctance to enforce these convenants , the courts will , however , do so if they are shown to be reasonable … |
| 13 | Expressions like , ‘ at this moment in time ’ , ‘ in this day and age ’ , ‘ part and parcel ’ may be practised so that they are recognized and ignored . |
| 14 | He said the intention was that beds in intensive care units were managed so that they were occupied 70 per cent of the time , leaving a 30 per cent capacity to take emergency cases , such as road accident victims . |
| 15 | His results indicated that in 88 per cent of the 539 ( this represents a subset of the sample of 671 referred to previously , the missing 132 issues arising because the dates of the underwriting contracts could not be firmly established so that they were excluded from the tests ) issues studied , the underwriters earned positive excess returns . |
| 16 | The location of factories was changed so that they were situated near coal ; more intensive exploitation of coal deposits and iron ore meant that either , as in the Black Country , the little villages began to merge and quite large areas of land were enveloped and spoilt , or that , as in the case of Manchester , a factory town emerged . |