Example sentences of "and so [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence he has collected shows that working people of the last century were able to hold an image of society from their own experience and so articulate a political consciousness . |
| 2 | Alternatively , the Soviets might select the site at Brawdy as a target for a sudden nuclear strike in order to demonstrate that they were able to protect their submarines in the Atlantic and so maintain the nuclear threat which the presence of such posed to the United States . |
| 3 | The turbine employs the difference in temperature between levels to produce vapour pressure in a working fluid , and so turn a simple generator ( 4 ) . |
| 4 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 5 | If they bend too much , the bee responds by moving its wings less strongly and so maintains an optimum speed . |
| 6 | The limpet , like Neopilina , produces shell at an equal rate right round the circumference of the mantle and so builds a simple pyramid . |
| 7 | A young and inexperienced pilot may not feel able to take command of the situation and so prevent a stupid accident or an unnecessary risk being taken . |
| 8 | First , acyclovir triphosphate might simply compete with dGTP for a binding site on the polymerase enzyme , and so prevent the proper incorporation of dGTP into DNA . |
| 9 | Two-dimensional spaces are particularly easy to visualize and so make an ideal vehicle for introducing the concepts that will be used later in discussing curvature in space–time ( three spatial dimensions plus one time dimension ) . |
| 10 | When , however , need and dare are used non-assertively , it is possible for the speaker to feel that there is nothing real ( no real need or daring ) situated in time to constitute a before-position in relation to the event evoked by the infinitive , and so to use the bare infinitive after these verbs as with the modals . |
| 11 | It is far better to ventilate the room well , and so remove the damp air causing the condensation . |
| 12 | It also encourages the community to anticipate such changes and so achieves a good part of the benefit of change without the waste of litigation , or the expensive , uncertain , and awkward process of legislation . |
| 13 | Practical work is an important part of the education of all engineers and so forms an integral part of all four years of the course . |
| 14 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 15 | Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme . |
| 16 | I certainly had had enough and so had the poor lady , judging by her slight breathlessness , flushed cheeks and waving handkerchief . |
| 17 | For example , the numerator might be a count of people in a postcode sector who have , say , a cancer , yet , because the census and health data are reported for different areal units , it is not possible to find the appropriate at-risk population for the denominator and so compute a reliable incidence ratio . |
| 18 | But one broad flank of the colony faces east and so catches the full warmth of the rising sun . |
| 19 | Two-thirds of the schools had no boarders , and most were situated in the towns — especially in the North of England , where many were Roman Catholic and so represented a useful variant of the religious settlement which Butler incorporated in the 1944 Act . |
| 20 | Thus in ( 36 ) , a typical example of the infinitive of result , managed evokes all the efforts which the subject had to make in order to attain the result and so situates the third-person support in time before — and all the way up to — the point at which " getting free " is actualized . |
| 21 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 22 | It is big — but it also happens to be Japanese , and so presents a juicy target . |
| 23 | Deaths from overexposure would not have occurred until years later and so caused no immediate alarm . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly , the fact that both mothers and daughters are able to have babies and so enact a continuing cycle makes their dilemma of finding a harmonious balance difficult . |
| 25 | He immediately married a Suabian noblewoman called Hildegarde , and so gained a new wife and the unrelenting hatred and opposition of his ex father-in-law . |
| 26 | Alexander realized that the root cause of many problems was the over-tightening of the neck muscles , causing an interference with the Primary Control and so throwing the whole body out of balance . |
| 27 | He did n't mind responding to a panic call at such a late hour , especially not when it meant transporting three microwave ovens up to the Hall and so getting an advance peek at the preparations . |
| 28 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 29 | In the same way , if you place thin flower petals on top of any lumpy plant material , its uneven shape can damage or crease the petals , and so mar the finished result . |
| 30 | Media advertising almost certainly has an effect , and so does the prior socialization of women for domesticity . |