Example sentences of "[coord] so [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 15 or so parties that claim to speak for British Muslims are constantly at war with each other . |
| 2 | Everyone in the developed countries around 1970 or so knew that there was both a baby bust and an education explosion going on ; half or more of the young people were now staying in school beyond high school . |
| 3 | Said I can guarantee that you 'll have it in a week or so said that she got to have it |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Give a simple description of the document : eg conveyance instead of indenture for old deeds , etc. ( 3 ) Give the names of the parties in the first abstracted deed , but where these recur ( as , for example , where a buyer becomes a seller , or where personal representatives become sellers ) give initials only , so that after the first deed the seller , etc , of an abstracted document will commonly be shown by initials and so indicate that there is an unbroken chain of title . |
| 5 | This file is only read when LIFESPAN starts up and so changes that are made while LIFESPAN is running will not take effect until LIFESPAN is stopped and restarted . |
| 6 | His head was long and bony , and so shaped that you could see all the contours of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 7 | The baby who is picked up or fed whenever he cries soon becomes a veritable tyrant , and gives his mother no peace when awake ; while , on the other hand , the infant who is fed regularly , put to sleep , and played with at definite times soon finds that appeals bring no response , and so learns that most useful of all lessons , self-control , and the recognition of an authority other than his own wishes . |
| 8 | This finding conflicts with those of Bransford and Johnson ( 1972 ) and Dooling and Mullett ( 1973 ) who found that providing information about the theme or context of a passage after it had been presented did not improve performance , and so concluded that such information only affected the organisation carried out when the passage was memorised . |
| 9 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 10 | He admits also that Buddhism displayed a tendency to participation as it spread out from India into other countries , though he fails to recognize the examples of participation which might be said to derive from the communal life of the sangha and so insists that it is the principle of identity that predominates . |
| 11 | Knowing exactly what was coming next , and her heart aching for poor Phena , Ellie said softly , ‘ And she could n't find any record of a David Anthony Kent having been born , having even existed — and so knew that her mother had lied . ’ |
| 12 | There used to be a long table and the head used to sit at the end of this table and so to see that you did n't leave off working she used to get the table cloth and always be pulling this table straight . |
| 13 | Below was a boot containing a folding camp bed of polished steel ‘ of commodious size with a tester-top and on castors ’ and so constructed that it ‘ could be folded up in a minute . ’ |
| 14 | She went from being childish , not caring for social conventions and so spoilt that she could follow any whim she liked , to realising how nai ‘ 3vely and shameful her ‘ rebellion ’ really was . |
| 15 | On the one hand , there will be those whose belief in the concept is so definite and so fixed that they almost allow it to rule their lives . |
| 16 | I worked hard all week and so felt that I deserved them , I suppose . |
| 17 | Hoomey had long ago decided that he was the duff member of the team and knew that the worst score was discarded , and so felt that there was little onus on him . |
| 18 | Oh yes , now if by any chanc chance you do have a question in the exam where you 're asked you know instead of the wound being on top of the scalp , some clever so and so decides that you 're good at improvising and you 've got a wound over the top of the eyebrow , the eyebrow 's split , okay , so there would n't be much good of me going a minute , pull that there , trying like this round there |
| 19 | But still coming in , and so gone that he did not feel the punches . |
| 20 | This would stop Muslim and Croat forces moving into the areas vacated by Serbs , and so meant that the fourth objection to the plan had been removed . |
| 21 | Viborg Cathedral , though still on original lines , is extensively restored and so possesses that machine finished appearance typical of Scandinavian nineteenth century work . |
| 22 | Families are usually unable to describe how they function to an outsider and so questions that enquire about this directly are likely to be unhelpful . |
| 23 | There is therefore a clear place for an EC policy to oversee State aids , and so to ensure that they do not unjustifiably favour one member 's industry at the expense of another 's , and thereby mitigate the intentions of EC competition policy . |
| 24 | The cosmids were picked in batches of about 50 from the set of unhit clones ( ie by sampling without replacement ) , and so to ensure that the cosmids in each batch were from different regions on the genome ( and hence to maximize efficiency ) the unhit clones were reordered against the ordered YAC probes . |
| 25 | Its daring conception , ideal in the highest sense of the word , is based on the purest truth , and wrought out with the concentrated knowledge of a life , its colour is almost perfect , not one false or morbid hue in any part or line , and so modulated that every square inch of canvas is a perfect composition ; its drawing is as accurate as fearless ; the ship buoyant , bending , and full of motion ; its tones as true as they are wonderful ; and the whole picture dedicated to the most sublime of subjects and impressions … the power , majesty and deathfulness of the open , deep , illimitable sea . |
| 26 | Then , without another word , he hauled himself up the ladder , leaving her wide-eyed , speechless , and so confused that she wanted to scream . |
| 27 | and so provided that there 's proper procedures , I mean I do n't suppose the commission wanted to actually act as a , a review body for every person excluded from the market in Europe , and so they said well one 's got to have a certain faith in the national courts as being an independent review , and such as that person is excluded from the market there must be a very good reason and he was an a competitor |
| 28 | It is important to be aware of the ideal conditions for using a UV system and so ensure that fish enjoy the best possible environment . |
| 29 | This answer falls within the acceptable range and so indicates that this person is at or reasonably close to her ideal weight . |
| 30 | Carloman , however had been born after Pepin had been crowned king in his own right and so considered that he held a superior claim to kingship . |