Example sentences of "so at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The mayor 's stall is in the choir , so at the appropriate moment the civic party rise and are escorted from the nave to the choir — and out of sight of the members of the congregation . |
| 32 | It was pure good luck that someone dropped out so I could come this weekend — at least , I thought so at the time . ’ |
| 33 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |
| 34 | IT MIGHT not have seemed so at the time , but Troy Coker 's sending-off for punching against Bath proved to be a blessing in disguise for the quarrelsome Queenslander . |
| 35 | By this good turn the bishop won the hearts of all , and the people began to listen more readily to his teaching , hoping to obtain heavenly blessings through the ministry of one to whom they already owed these material benefits ; Eddius Stephanus then pointed out that those ungrateful enough not to convert willingly did so at the king 's command . |
| 36 | ‘ Our affluent workers remain , in spite of their affluence , men who live by selling their labour power to their employers in return for wages ; and , in all probability they will still be so at the end of their working days . |
| 37 | So at the beginning of 1846 , 10 years after his apprenticeship had finished and then aged 31 , Benjamin Titford was still a bachelor — but only just . |
| 38 | So at the end of 1991 , he went in a team of eight to climb Kilimanjaro and two peaks of Mount Kenya , raising more than £60,000 . |
| 39 | ‘ I did so at the duchess your mother 's suggestion . ’ |
| 40 | Not that she had seen it so at the time . |
| 41 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 42 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 43 | So at the age of sixteen he enlisted in the Marines . |
| 44 | So at the SLP 's next annual conference I put forward a resolution that talks be opened with them with a view to supporting each other in seats where one or the other of us stood a chance of winning ; and to this end arranged a meeting between Jo Grimond and the SNP leader , Billy Wolfe . |
| 45 | Palmer 's guess , recorded in his notebooks of 13 March , was that the rocks had catalysed the fusion , and so at the 7 April meeting the group discussed various metals that could be prime candidates for the process . |
| 46 | Hoyle suggested that this field 's lines of magnetic force manage to twist themselves up every 11 years because of the Sun 's rapid rotation ( once every 34 days or so at the Sun 's equator ) . |
| 47 | But the most notable act of all this trans-Pacific ambition — when seen from today 's vantage point , if not necessarily so at the time — was President Fillmore 's decision to send out Commodore Perry and his ‘ black ships ’ , to bring sense to the isolationist shoguns who in almost Carthusian seclusion , ran the state of Nihon . |
| 48 | It did so at the rate of 4–7 in ( 10–18 cm ) per year until it collided with the Laurasian land mass ( North America and Eurasia , which were then joined ) . |
| 49 | Just over half of those who retired prematurely did so at the same time as their redundancy . |
| 50 | As these opportunities appeared , so at the same time the lines of religious party and sect hardened . |
| 51 | To put it slightly differently , it is important to understand that the poverty of the Third World and the wealth of the West are the outcome of an interlinked process in which the rapid and massive growth in Western prosperity has occurred and continues to do so at the expense and underdevelopment of the Third World . |
| 52 | Just as a queen bee unwittingly hosts tiny mites that have specialized to graze on her mouth parts , so at the bottommost end of the city did Kefalov house its recycler and scavenger tribes . |
| 53 | Under a heavy parallel processing load , the whole thing will tend to slow down as the 10Mbps links clog , so at the SP1 's launch , the company concentrated on its new , high speed packet switch which can replace the Ethernet . |
| 54 | However , the situation of older and younger generations is similar in a different sense , in that in both cases the position of individuals within those structures is determined very largely by factors outside their control — very obviously so at the time when the issue of old age pensions was first on the agenda . |
| 55 | It was a valuable office in the early eighteenth century , and it was still so at the beginning of the next century . |
| 56 | Not so at the Grand National , where the horses are assembled behind a fibre rope ( call a tape ) some 70 metres long , whose ends are hoisted when the race is signalled to begin . |
| 57 | So at the end of the day it must be for the courts to decide how to classify particular functions , and this can only be done on the basis of some normative judgment about the desirable scope of judicial review . |
| 58 | With special reference to the material being exhibited at Beaubourg and even more so at the Jeu de Paume , the authoritative journal Esprit entitled one of its issues earlier this year ‘ The crisis in contemporary art ’ , denouncing the fraudulent behaviour of Duchamp 's grandchildren and the flood of historicism that has swamped art criticism . |
| 59 | So at the first encore , Katell played two surprise cards but if one — a searing performance of Jacques Brel 's ‘ Me Pas ’ with guest pianist , The Man Seezer — worked , the other — a shapeless version of Ian Dury 's ‘ Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ’ — flopped . |
| 60 | When Richard duke of Gloucester seized the throne in 1483 he did so at the head of the largest noble affinity of its day . |