Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] so a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 2 | From 1867 onwards it became clear that the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne and so a small household was established . |
| 3 | Both of these are frequently mixed or compounded with other minerals such as copper or lead and so a virtual monopoly was held by the old Mines Royal Company , and its permission was needed . |
| 4 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 5 | If equipment has to travel between hospitals and schools , it must be able to withstand stress and so a strong carrying case is preferable . |
| 6 | When the suit is wet , it traps a thin layer of water between the body and the suit and your body quickly warms that up to a comfortable working temperature but if you fall in when the suit is dry , the cold water can be quite a shock and so a good trick in cold weather is to put the wet suit on in a hot shower and then over the top you wear a spray suit again to keep off the wind and to protect the wetsuit . |
| 7 | Within the next , er month or so a national consultation is being held within the URC to consider the advice of producing a programme of training for eldership which will be used throughout the call of the church and if there are any suggestions or any proposal that anyone would like to make I shall be very glad to receive them within the next month . |
| 8 | It turned out there were large surpluses in the BTR pension fund and so a good chance that the transfer value , as well as the potential pension , would be increased in the not too distant future . |
| 9 | Proceedings between the Attorney-General and the Observer and Guardian newspapers in the matter of confidentiality were not ‘ active ’ at the time and so a statutory contempt could not be committed . |