Example sentences of "so [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law as integrity is also a non-skeptical theory of legal rights : it holds that people have as legal rights whatever rights are sponsored by the principles that provide the best justification of legal practice as a whole Pragmatism , on the contrary , denies that people ever have legal rights ; it takes the bracing view that they are never entitled to what would otherwise be worse for the community just because some legislature said so or a long string of judges decided other people were . |
| 2 | Not so where an illusion of everyday reality is more important . |
| 3 | We were the first up the hill and had to break a path , so although a summer walk up Schiehallion is simple and quick to the point of disappointment , winter is a trifle harder . |
| 4 | So although a different totality might produce subjects who were neither exploiters nor exploited , such individuals can not be produced within capitalist societies . |
| 5 | So although a voluntary unanimity among participating citizens could certainly be regarded as an authentic expression of what all wanted as individuals , even that would not in itself ensure that the general good or the general interest was being realized . |
| 6 | A garage would be nice and as we 've got two cars so although a garage is vital if we as long as we can get them off the road that would be an advantage |
| 7 | Is the text or part of the text written so that a reader will benefit in a future encounter with a work of art ? |
| 8 | Cable which has a large reserve of strength is mostly used so that a weak-link device of some kind safeguards the structure on a fast launch in gusty conditions . |
| 9 | Occasionally the stall is recognised by the pilot so that a preventative movement can be made before any serious wing-drop has had time to develop . |
| 10 | This stops the hip from moving properly , and twists the pelvis , so that a sudden , sharp strain is placed on the sacroiliac joint at the base of the spine . |
| 11 | There is a self that coheres over time , so that a person p 2 at time t 2 is in some sense identical to the person p 1 at time t 1 . |
| 12 | This gives the pine a more even rate of absorption so that a more uniform colour results when the stain is applied . |
| 13 | Some areas have day care available at weekends , or for long days so that a carer can go out to work . |
| 14 | The first example of equipment redeployment came in 1982 when the then director ( Cyril Bleasdale ) , faced with a serious downturn on Great Western sub-sector services out of Paddington , decided to move ten HSTs to the Midland main line so that a badly needed improvement could be implemented on this potentially profitable and much neglected route . |
| 15 | Ashton makes brilliant use of this in his version of the solo , phrasing the steps so that a jump upwards can last three beats followed by two short steps or two beats followed by a long and then a short step . |
| 16 | In a fringe area , or where distant stations are wanted so that a directional antenna is essential , a rotator can be purchased for quite a modest by today 's standards . |
| 17 | For those who only need relatively local stations , advantage can be taken of the fact that nearly all FM stations now radiate , either slant-polarised or circularly polarised signals , so that a vertical dipole , completely non-directional in the horizontal plane , gives as much signal as a horizontal one . |
| 18 | Eliot , like Charlie , was preoccupied with bill books , so that a ‘ Bill of Lading ’ even finds its way into his note on ‘ C.i.f . |
| 19 | Hinged along its top edge , it was possible to open the gun so that a film loop could be inserted round its profile . |
| 20 | The pace of change varied according to the region so that a building layout considered out of date in one area might still be fashionable in another . |
| 21 | From the first century AD , the principles of gearing were understood and used by the Romans , so that a horizontal millstone could be turned by a vertical waterwheel . |
| 22 | Poppy seeds sprinkled on bread as a flavouring have a disconcerting tendency to react chemically in the same way as the extract of the opium poppy , so that a worker could be mistaken for a heroin user because of what he ate for breakfast . |
| 23 | The STM works by putting a voltage on the needle so that a tiny current flows to the surface . |
| 24 | The British Museum has ( or is believed to have ) some 5 or 6 million objects , so that a conventional stock-take of the entire collection could occupy all the qualified staff for five or six years and could be exhaustive only if all other duties were suspended for the duration . |
| 25 | There is something curious , too , about the gradation of honours , so that a Ministry of Agriculture clerk is called before the young sergeant from the Royal Ulster Constabulary who chanced his life in some undisclosed anti-terrorist operation . |
| 26 | So that a large part of every day is not determined by thought at all , it more or less just happens because of habit . |
| 27 | St Bridget is supposed to have quickly twisted some dry reeds into the form of a cross , so that a dying pagan could see the symbol of Christ and perhaps enter Heaven . |
| 28 | But it is difficult to imagine that shaikhs had more power in the pre-Sanusi period than in the 1970s : if anything , accretions of status increased their authority during the Italian government and the kingdom ( so that a shaikh was an obvious candidate for the office of al-mukhtar al-mahalli ) . |
| 29 | The intersegmental membrane does not permit diffusion , so that a high concentration at the front end of one segment is maintained close to a low concentration at the back of the segment in front . |
| 30 | Many schools have team members in reserve so that a quota can always be mustered to stand in for any bona fide team member whose parents can not afford the trip . |