Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] so the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 2 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 3 | Selection intensity on early , beneficial effects will be stronger than on later , deleterious ones and so the optimal life history will include ageing . |
| 4 | Sadly the very dry weather we have had over the last two summers has meant that even young bulbs have not been able to bulk up their energy supplies and so the following year they have been unable to produce flowers . |
| 5 | There was no existing model to use as a comparison of events and so the moral majority focused on clearly visible symbols such as disordered hair , clothing , and lifestyle , to articulate their fear of the ‘ alternative society ’ and its drug fiends . |