Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] so [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floor sloped slightly and the pews , which held 2,500 , were slightly curved so that the preacher ‘ can be seen from every part of the building ’ . |
| 2 | In other cases early appointment is clearly desirable so that the guardian can attend the first directions appointment . |
| 3 | Indeed , Ulpian puts the case of a seller of a female slave who knowingly allows the buyer to believe that she is a virgin when she is not ( D.19.1.11.5 ) , a defect which is treated as being strictly liable so that the buyer can return the slave . |
| 4 | The reader should be able to confirm that if investment were completely interest-inelastic so that the injections line in graph ( a ) were vertical , the IS curve would also be vertical . |
| 5 | Perhaps male bats have body surfaces that are subtly textured so that the echoes that bounce off them are perceived by females as gorgeously coloured , the sound equivalent of the nuptial plumage of a bird of paradise . |
| 6 | Stress affects posture : often people look slumped , their shoulders sag and they hunch their back ; alternatively they hold themselves very rigid so that the muscles of the shoulders and neck especially are set ; their face takes on a fixed expression with perhaps staring eyes or clenched jaw ; muscular tics and involuntary twitches can arise ; for some people cramp is stress-related . |
| 7 | ‘ Killer in the Sky ’ said a placard , held helpfully flat so that the Board 's staff above could get a better look . |
| 8 | Hilton 's Scale gains , perhaps , over some other later descriptions of the way in being very wide and very general so that the individual can find his own way therein without being embarrassed by a bundle of inapplicable particularities . |