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

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1 Others , mainly the girls , spent the next hour or so exercising the jaw muscles — until the great white chief shouted , ‘ OK ; time to get together ’ .
2 This would seem a clear inducement to revive the share-rigging practices that so embarrassed the finance ministry when a host of securities scandals broke in 1991 .
3 David Smith was flown in from England as cover for Gooch , only to have his thumb badly bruised in the one-day international in Barbados and so miss the Bridgetown Test .
4 ‘ So if the hoped for vatable activity is tagged on to an existing business the Customs and Excise or the Tribunals , may refuse to accept the activity as a business and so deny the VAT registration , ’ says .
5 Slight irritation can swell the skin and so make the pore openings look less obvious temporarily .
6 In short , therefore , the best advice for combating jet-lag is to adopt a new routine in accord with your new time zone , to strengthen all possible time-cues , and so to reset the body clock as quickly as possible .
7 Should one turn away weaker candidates , and so lose the university income , or admit them , with the possibility of academic , cultural , and pastoral problems ensuing for several years ?
8 The mother also supports that order and so does the guardian ad litem .
9 Erm and they sponsor that , sponsor the marquis and so does the N F U. Erm now within the marquis there are lots of exhibits that are of educational value .
10 The primary sufferer continues his or her addiction regardless of consequences and so does the family member : the addictive disease is similar ; only the object of the addiction differs .
11 Many comments contended that LIFO is conceptually flawed because it fails to assign current costs to inventories held and so distorts the balance sheet .
12 He snapped up 7–38 to send Mold crashing to 95 all out and so lift the defending champions seven points clear at the top of the table .
13 If the government remains determined to reduce unemployment to U* , it will have to increase the rate of growth of the money supply even further and so push the inflation rate to 8 per cent ( at point G ) .
14 The literature on both temporary working and labour-hoarding suggests that the higher the skill level , or more precisely the specific skill level , of his labour force , the more likely an employer is to seek to maintain continuity of employment and so protect the training investments he has made .
15 However , there are some simple faults with gas boilers which you may be able to diagnose yourself and so assist the service engineer in selecting the right parts to bring with him .
16 A crowd crush at Ayresome Park on Saturday forced Middlesbrough 's match with Leeds United to be suspended for 15 minutes , and so alarmed the Leeds manager , Howard Wilkinson , that he clambered on to the perimeter fencing to appeal for calm .
17 A crowd crush at Ayresome Park on Saturday forced Middlesbrough 's match with Leeds United to be suspended for 15 minutes , and so alarmed the Leeds manager , Howard Wilkinson , that he clambered on to the perimeter fencing to appeal for calm .
18 My one criticism of SansAmp has always been the harshness of the top end ; the GX-7 certainly has less odd harmonics and so produces a distortion sound which is more pleasing to the ear .
19 On the particular facts of the case , service on a wholly owned , closely controlled subsidiary was reasonably calculated to secure timely notice to the parent company , and so to meet the United States version of due process .
20 We had a good laugh together and so ended the Spithead Review .
21 As it is , his overdraft increases , and so do the interest charges , at two or three points over base .
22 What was posited was a series of reciprocal acts which reinforce each other , and so create a multiplier effect in a downward direction .
23 When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France .
24 Aileen had read about multi-currency mortgages in the newspapers and so gave a specialist broker a call to find out more .
25 This advantage is considerable since the bitter fraction may then be chemically manipulated to produce bitter iso a acids from the a acids and so provide a PIKE product which may be added towards the end of the boil or even afterwards .
26 In what ways may it become possible to create greater use of the recreational advantages and so to boost the tourist industry of Northern Ireland ?
27 Even in industrial co-operatives , that consideration ruled out control by employees , and so confined the trade unions to their traditional concerns .
28 The historian-punter would be sitting in bonds ( which have rallied in the past few months ) waiting patiently to switch back to equities , starting cautiously in the middle of this year , and so to ride the bull market of the mid-1990s .
29 A strategy , such as the present Government 's , of increasing the degree of means-testing or ‘ targeting ’ within the social security system is likely to deter even larger numbers of older people from claiming benefit , and so extend the age discrimination of the system .
30 This was done in about 1650 by cutting straight canals to bypass some of the river meanders and so allow the flood waters of the rivers to reach the sea more easily .
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