Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb -s] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can calculate all too clearly that the average value of sterling has fallen 17.5 per cent , ( and over 25 per cent against the dollar ) since September , and the price of fuel and raw materials for industry has so far risen by just over 10 per cent , while retail prices have actually fallen . |
| 2 | LABOUR has set up a confidential hotline for NHS whistleblowers so that staff who want to raise concerns about standards of care can do so in confidence . |
| 3 | The relativism of values seems so sensible and convincing until we reflect on what this implies , namely that what we feel passionately about with regard to truth or justice or purpose of life has no justification apart from the fact that we happen to think like this . |
| 4 | The show also had a majority of male acts so a female comic was perfect . |
| 5 | Yet we hesitate to take this step — and here is the source of the dilemma — for the modern law of contract appears so uncertain in its scope and mysterious in its moral vision . |
| 6 | In other words , the value of money decreases so much that the eventual outlay of £1,116 over 93 years is only equivalent to just short of £200 in 1900 's currency — weird stuff money ! |
| 7 | It is , however , possible that applied research which demonstrates impairments in memory at high levels of arousal does so because of differences in attention , e.g. weapon focus , rather than general effects on all aspects of memory . |
| 8 | … the city of Chichester doth so fast decay and run to ruine , and the multitude inhabiting there so fast growe too beggary that except for remedy thereof some speedy order bee taken it is very likely the multitude of poor in the liberty of that city increasing will cause the better sorte ( being few that can contribute towards the releefe of the poore ) by reason of charges to wex weery of inhabiting the city . |
| 9 | In terms of knowledge of design then , knowledge which merely describes , attempts to objectify or to naturalise this kind of practice does so in asocial terms . |
| 10 | But it was also a religious movement : the invasion by Christian knighthood of the infidel world ; it aroused the savagery for which war in the name of religion has so often been the excuse . |
| 11 | Because the theme of betrayal figures so often in fable , myth and legend throughout all cultures , it seems that it is something we must all know about at one level or another and need to have formalized in story form . |
| 12 | We understand , however , that the council 's offer of assistance has so far been rather less generous . |
| 13 | C. K. Allen has suggested , for example , that : ‘ It is evidently difficult for a generation brought up on the early editions of Dicey 's Law of the Constitution to relinquish the belief that droit administratif is the sinister embodiment of all the distempers of the commonwealth which the Rule of Law has so proudly repulsed . ’ |
| 14 | Instead , we should be asking how the diversity of body plans so evident in the Vendian and Cambrian affected the shape of things to come . |
| 15 | In recent years — since the televising of the House , I suppose — people have asked me , as they have asked other hon. Members , why the House of Commons behaves so badly , like a bunch of yobs . |
| 16 | In no other state was the influence of military attachés so great and so formalised as in Germany ; but in others it could on occasion be significant . |
| 17 | Will the Minister confirm that Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution has so far achieved just six prosecutions under integrated pollution control and the 1990 Act ? |
| 18 | The flaunting of symbols has so often been the occasion for counter-demonstrations and rioting that the government has often banned parades or re-routed them away from particularly sensitive areas . |
| 19 | As each transfer price embodies just the sum of variable costs so far , this method is good for decision making . |
| 20 | The veil of ignorance operates so that the agent will not know his or her natural endowments , social situation , or conception of the good . |
| 21 | On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’ |
| 22 | SOMETIMES THIS sort of thing gets so embarrassing that you feel ashamed to be associated with metal in any way , shape or form . |
| 23 | SOMETIMES THIS sort of thing gets so embarrassing that you feel ashamed to be associated with metal in any way , shape or form . |
| 24 | For example , the problem of representing three-dimensional figures in two dimensions lent itself to the splitting of animal forms so that they faced out in both directions , joined by a centre line around the mouth and spine . |
| 25 | Since then , due to the economic recession , recreational courses have been particularly subject to a series of expenditure cuts so that facilities have declined , courses have been curtailed or cancelled , and fees have been increased . |
| 26 | In fact , the search for universal criteria of rationality has so far proved fruitless . |
| 27 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 28 | The Archbishop of Canterbury thinks so . |
| 29 | The publication stressed that children should be helped to develop as wide as possible a range of language uses so that they can ‘ speak appropriately in different situations and use standard forms when they are needed ’ . |
| 30 | More recently , the Department has commissioned an awareness campaign whose major aims are : ensuring everyone who needs to know about EMC does so ; ensuring that UK industry is well equipped with information to tackle the directive ; setting up mechanisms for British industry to acquire the necessary technical know-how ; helping industry to implement EMC measures with minimum cost and disruption ; and finally , promoting the positive aspects of competitive advantage in Europe as well as explaining the pitfalls of non-compliance . |