Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ In the second type there is ] … a natural increase which is offset by outwards migration so that the overall result is one of population decline … . |
| 2 | In Brazil , large landowners ( who are usually very rich anyway ) are given government subsidies to burn down trees so that cattle farms can be set up . |
| 3 | Now it 's made the people , I have friends in Moscow , who are saying that they are losing a lot of their food supplies , because the West are taking the most throw down prices so that the Yugoslavs and the Romanians can get the goodies they want for us . |
| 4 | It prints erm it prints words not , not pictures so if you prin |
| 5 | Elsewhere , though , Eliot deliberately pruned away details so as to universalize his imagery . |
| 6 | In Hobbes 's view , humans always act according to desires , and so always act so as to produce the increase in vital motion , which is pleasure . |
| 7 | The black sands were wind-eroded basalt , and where parts of the sheet remained intact — and in basins and wadis — there was still radioactivity so that the desert could be navigated in safety only by the well-tried routes . |
| 8 | This is in marked contrast to the position before last September when the priority was to kill off inflation so as to preserve Britain 's competitive position within the ERM in the expectation that growth would recover as a consequence . |
| 9 | This is in marked contrast to the position before last September when the priority was to kill off inflation so as to preserve Britain 's competitive position within the ERM in the expectation that growth would recover as a consequence . |
| 10 | However , it would be wrong to have a system which meant that some countries set aside land so that other countries could produce more . |
| 11 | We shall begin our investigation of how causative verbs interact with the infinitive in English by looking at the contrast between make and cause because , although these two verbs seem quite similar in meaning , they are not followed by the same form of the infinitive : ( 134 ) While most enzymes can not make a reaction occur that would not take place in their absence , they speed up reactions so that they occur at the temperatures and other conditions which prevail within living organisms . |
| 12 | Here is the detail of a world we may be glad to have lost : the constables listen at the keyhole to a flaming row , solemnly counting up swear-words so that the fine per oath could be calculated properly . |
| 13 | Should we set up structures so that ordinary behaviour becomes highly effective or would we set up structures that demand special behaviour ? |
| 14 | Obviously at the moment we we all of us are really tied up with living from a Tuesday to a Saturday really you know with Tuesdays our meeting and then all that has to be done after that and then Saturday is the food parcels you know so and most people work as well either part time or full time work at home er with the kids and bringing up families so and obviously also money is shor short for people that are directly involved in the strike so erm . |
| 15 | ‘ This boy behaved in an underhand way , setting up situations so that he would n't get into trouble , but David would when he had left . |
| 16 | The person repeatedly sets up situations so that they are caught and , figuratively , kicked as though a Kick Me sign were pinned on their back . |
| 17 | This causes massive expansion of air , and demonic winds churn up dust so that one seems to be walking on the bed of a murky sea . |
| 18 | Maurice Cowling has suggested that Law 's resignation was tactical , that he could not face reconciling his party to the coming Irish negotiations , and that he was giving up office so as to be available as an alternative to coalition in the future ; in Gaullist terms he was becoming a Prime Minister " in the reserve of the republic " . |
| 19 | And this helped them to pay for knocking down and putting up walls so that they could move the bathroom to a lovely sunny spot off the main upstairs landing . |
| 20 | In addition , one is struck by the importance of such factors as : vocal quality — this is Billie Holiday and could not be anyone else ; phrasing — that is , the way she places accents , alters the rhythm , often by stretching out notes so that they sound behind the beat instead of on it , and joins notes together , for example smoothly or with attacked consonants ; and pitch inflection — the way she sometimes slides up to or away from notes , hits them slightly ‘ off-pitch ’ , and so on . |
| 21 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 22 | Even before birth , the fetus can be infected from the mother 's blood via the placenta , and for this reason , pregnant women have their blood tested to detect , e.g. syphilis so that treatment can be provided to ensure that the baby is not infected . |
| 23 | The managing director may travel in a chauffeur-driven Jaguar , the pop star in a stretch limo with blacked out windows so as to preserve distance . |
| 24 | Andrew played back sections so that we could take a long , hard and critical look at our technique . |
| 25 | They did n't plan a big order book these few weeks before christmas so that everything could get caught up and we 're all |
| 26 | Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court . |
| 27 | And I would urge the panel to send out their proposed leaflet to the ministers in various areas where the educational standards are not very high that they may look at them and put forward suggestions so that the leaflet that eventually comes out will be understood by the whole of our people and not just by the most educated . |