Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , accidents in residential areas are widely dispersed so that the key is to find low-cost measures which cover the entire residential area rather than specific accident black-spots . |
| 2 | He argues that under capitalism the interests of workers and capitalists are fundamentally opposed so that the latter , in order to pursue their objective of profit maximisation , need to exercise tight control over the former . |
| 3 | Moreover , just at the time when the tape medium is losing its prime hold on the marketplace , the manufacturing technology has been vastly improved so that the best cassettes can now give aural satisfaction , even on the most demanding domestic equipment . |
| 4 | Employment opportunities for graduates are constantly changing so you need to keep an eye on the situation throughout your time as a student . |
| 5 | For instance , many of Amway 's products , such as fabric softener , bleach and window cleaner , are highly concentrated so that less packaging is required . |
| 6 | I think that people are getting very concerned indeed over how the French government are basically disrupting so many worthwhile things for silly reasons . |
| 7 | It is assumed that within a single erosional system all elements of the topography are mutually adjusted so that they are downwasting at the same rate . |
| 8 | In all cases , however , the broken ends of the DNA on either side of the initial cut are apparently sealed so as to form hairpins , as Martin Gellert ( NIH ) showed , before they are nicked to form the final joint ( a process reminiscent of the reaction mechanism employed by topisomerases ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Though the mechanics of it are so arranged so that on every odd hour the water plays and the fountain dances in snatches of classical music . ’ |
| 10 | From a train window the views are democratically arrayed so that basilica and hedgerow , back street and castle have equal viewing time and space . |
| 11 | It was belatedly discovered at Lemnos that the transport ships had been incorrectly loaded so that crucial material , required immediately on landing , had been packed at the bottom of the holds . |
| 12 | And if these random shocks in aggregate and relative demand are normally distributed so that larger ( absolute ) values are less likely to occur than smaller ones , it is rational to infer from an unexpectedly high price in any market that this is due partly to a positive aggregate demand shock and partly to a positive relative demand shock . |
| 13 | I am not drunk so much as queasy . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not asking so much of you , after all . |
| 15 | I am not doing so badly at all . ’ |
| 16 | The progressivity of the tax structure has been largely undermined so that the poor pay a very high price for their welfare . |
| 17 | Since 1980 , the protection of the law against the closed shop had been progressively extended so that it now covered everyone in employment . |
| 18 | In the horse , the digits have been progressively reduced so that just the central core carries the load and the two adjacent ones are present as splints — remnants of the digits that once were there . |
| 19 | Finally the point is reached where our minds are not renewed so much as patched up . |
| 20 | Whilst it might be unusual for , probably unique in fact , for a to thank a , can I reassure all delegates we are not related so rumour has it . |
| 21 | This is where dogs come into their own for they are not hampered so much as the rabbits and the odds are shortened in favour of the dog in every chase . |
| 22 | ‘ The rootzone is protected under the warmth of the polypropylene carpet and , although the grass can be kicked off during play , the roots are not damaged so that it recovers during the growing season . ’ |
| 23 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 24 | The French , Italian and Austrian Alps have their spectacles , but they are not presented so conveniently for the the idle downhill skier ( or even non-skier ) as the great set-pieces of the Swiss . |
| 25 | We are not told so , but surely we must surmise that the door was shut unobtrusively , and therefore gently , by the shopkeeper . |
| 26 | Things are not going so well over at Castlereagh Park either just at the moment with Ards manager Paul Malone possibly landing himself in trouble with the authorities . |
| 27 | If the box is overfull , then the overdrive seals are having to cope with excessive quantities of oil and are not doing so . |
| 28 | The state assumes that they are not doing so and gives increases on all of the additional pension as if you had never been contracted out . |
| 29 | Fish which respond to herbal treatment are not doing so because they think they should get better . |
| 30 | Young people 's knowledge about the harmful effects of smoking is considerable ; those who take up smoking are not doing so purely out of ignorance . |