Example sentences of "[conj] so [art] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 2 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 3 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 4 | Disabled people meet substantial resistance to many choices , and so a range of communication , assertiveness and negotiation skills is needed . |
| 5 | And so a couple of hours later , it was Burkett who drove the coach and four to the top of Dunmail Raise while Hope and Sylvia walked behind to spare the horses the effort , even though , as Burkett had pointed out , two passengers were light work for four horses . |
| 6 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
| 7 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 8 | ‘ After the war the Russians encouraged the Poles in Britain to return home and so a number of army people — including Nowak — went back . |
| 9 | And so a lot of women continued to wear these erm rubber garments . |
| 10 | The other , more plausible , avenue is to accept that the phenomena discussed would normally be established by linguistic means but that is in no way a necessary feature of them , and so no problem of principle need arise . |
| 11 | Because there exists no distinction between causing the experience by acting and the maintenance of the experience requiring action , and so no conception of acting in order to experience a something in the external world . |
| 12 | Thus unc both primitive polynomials [ by assumption and by 1.9.10 respectively ] and so the content of bdF is bd [ why ? ] whilst the content of acGH is ac . |
| 13 | This will reduce the amount of drug required and so the cost of treatment . |
| 14 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 15 | This will then be perceived in the previous period , and so the threat of minimax punishment will not be credible . |
| 16 | However , it has not yet been possible to obtain agreement on the need for specific regulation for construction liability and so the principle of subsidiarity continues to apply for the time being . |
| 17 | We have alkaline soil , and so the growing of camellias , rhododendrons , pieris etc is not easy . |
| 18 | They urged friends to join them and so the Society of St Peter Apostle was born a hundred years ago in France . |
| 19 | And so the influence of teachers like Professor Isle Middendorf , Ursel Beck , Irene Wenger , Jutta Holler and Senta Medau filtered through to England . |
| 20 | In practice materials generally only reach a small fraction of their theoretical strength before they break and so the release of strain energy is usually far less than the energy which would be provided by an equivalent weight of explosive . |
| 21 | The claim was dismissed on liability and so the question of damages was not dealt with ; in principle , however , the claim seems to have been well founded . |
| 22 | The taste for the double telling of a story , both in text and pictures , is never lost , and so the paperback of Asterix and the Secret Weapon ( Hodder & Stoughton , £3.99 ) , which has a feminist infiltrating the English village , will be much welcomed by readers at all stages . |
| 23 | The basket of shares in the index is seldom identical to the market portfolio and so the basket of shares corresponding to the index may have a beta value ( with respect to the market portfolio ) that differs from unity . |
| 24 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 25 | It 's not like baked beans , and so the sharing of risk on purchases is more sensible and realistic . ’ |
| 26 | Young children have very different temperaments and so the style of management of one child may not suit another . |
| 27 | Exposed rocky coasts are preferred for both hauling out and breeding and so the islands of Orkney , Hebrides , Shetland , Farne , Scilly and Man and the coasts of Dorset , Devon , Cornwall and Wales are the areas where the seals will be found . |
| 28 | Prematurity itself might influence subsequent health and so the effects of prematurity and birth weight ( adjusted for gestational age ) need to be clearly separated . |
| 29 | When Brau and Brunner AG and Cadbury Schweppes plc notified the creation of a joint venture that would prepare and sell mineral water , the Commission found that this joint venture was not a concentration but a cooperative agreement , because the parent companies would stay active on the soft drinks market and so the structure of competition would not be permanently altered , as it would with a concentration . |
| 30 | It was chance , for example , that determined that the lemurs found their way into Madagascar before that island had drifted too far away from Africa , while the monkeys and apes did not ; and so the lemurs of Madagascar had carte blanche to fill all the ecological niches that monkeys and apes came to occupy elsewhere . |