Example sentences of "[conj] so [verb] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's measures to secure more planning permissions for housing development will go a long way to remedy the shortage of building land and so remove the occasion for windfall profits based on scarcity values . |
| 2 | Their advice was not wholly disinterested , however , since there seems to have been a move in the Conservative Party at this time to replace Baldwin as Party leader by Austen Chamberlain , and so prepare the ground for another Conservative/Liberal Coalition-a reversal , as Cowling puts it , of the verdict of the Carlton Club which had destroyed the Lloyd George Coalition . |
| 3 | Had ICI focused earlier on shareholder value creation , he said , it would not have allowed a value gap to develop and so become a target for Hanson 's predatory schemes . |
| 4 | Benny Alexander , the PAC 's secretary-general , claimed that the government 's action was motivated by a desire to force his organisation out of the negotiations and so smooth the way for an agreement that would be amenable to the ‘ white settler regime ’ . |
| 5 | In an effort to recoup some of his lost prestige , he attempted to do by negotiation what he dared not attempt by force and so conceived a plan for the purchase by France of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the acquisition of which would strengthen France 's eastern frontier . |
| 6 | The task of this chapter is to investigate the phenomenon of style in general terms , and so to prepare the ground for the analysis of its various aspects and manifestations in later chapters . |
| 7 | The group is focussing on cutting costs across its business , and has introduced new manufacturing technology to increase capacity and so reduce the need for subcontractors . |
| 8 | Abortifacient contraceptives , embryo experimentation and abortion itself deny the principle of the sanctity of life from conception onwards and so pave the way for euthanasia . |
| 9 | He told its authors : ‘ I took part in a number of school and house plays at Charterhouse and so acquired a taste for performing in public . ’ |
| 10 | As it is , we regret that the printers , when they had the opportunity , did not make an end of the half-paid female labour and so established the principle for both sexes of " Equal work , equal pay " . |