Example sentences of "[conj] so [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About ten or so blaze to the empty night . |
| 2 | And since the Budget revision of PEP rules , investors can now place their full £6,000 PEP contribution in a trust which has at least half the portfolio in UK and EC equities , and so benefit from the tax concessions . |
| 3 | This again enabled the bourgeois classes to exert their strength and so benefit from the disillusionment with the costs of revolution ( Krygier 1979c ) . |
| 4 | A general fall in aggregate investment may lead to a rise in unemployment and so contribute to the phenomenon of ‘ stagflation ’ . |
| 5 | If the money supply is not expanded sufficiently to meet this demand , interest rates will rise , this in turn will discourage some investment and so contribute to the slowing down in the growth of output and eventually lead to the upper turning-point . |
| 6 | On now to Barry Humphries ' autobiography , More Please ( Penguin ) ; Carol ( second wife of Walter ) Matthau 's memoirs Among the Porcupines ( Orion ) ; Ranulph Fiennes ' search for the city of Ubar ( the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , Atlantis of the Sands ( Penguin ) : A N Wilson 's Jesus ( Flamingo ) , coming at the same time as Barbara Thiering 's Jesus the Man ( Corgi ) , as they also did in hardcover ; and Miranda Seymour 's much-praised life of Ottoline Morrell ( Sceptre ) , £25 in hardcover and so welcome as a £7 or £8 paperback . |
| 7 | They will not admit anything of this , and so suffer under the effects of the traumatic experience . |
| 8 | The imminence of a Labour government may have persuaded some of the middle class to consult their interests rather than their tender consciences , and so return to the Tory fold . |
| 9 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 10 | For Augustine , mystical experience operated in the gap between the Creator and creature , enabling man to recognise his own true nature and so come to a knowledge of God — a process possible only because of the Incarnation , the love poured out from the being of God to his creatures which revealed how He could be known . |
| 11 | After spending all night , like John , at the tiller , he was relieved to find that ‘ steering as the children in my story steered , we should indeed reach the Deurloo Channel , and so come to the mouth of Flushing harbour ’ . |
| 12 | The Marind of New Guinea believe that fire has its origins in sex , and so indulge in a rite whereby a girl has to be raped in order to keep that fire alight . |
| 13 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 14 | The subsequent discovery of the endorphins and encephalins , hormones in the brain that act like morphine and so act as a natural analgesic , and their implication in the action of acupuncture , provided further theoretical explanation for its efficacy . |
| 15 | In so doing , they extend the frontiers of experience and so act as an ‘ … antidote to complacency ’ . |
| 16 | If he had been concerned to compile a mental list of likely candidates for involvement in conspiracy — any conspiracy — Rostov would have placed Grigoriev at or near its head , and so reference to the Adjudicator was not a surprise . |
| 17 | First , it can clarify concepts and issues and so help with the assessment and understanding of clients ' problems . |
| 18 | These values should be increased to give optimal response and so adapt to the overall machine loading on the host system . |
| 19 | On the one hand , the sampling process had to generate as many categories of user as possible and so account for the variations found in the known sample relating to age , sex , class , township , and so on . |
| 20 | The two broad categories of plants designated C 3 and C 4 differ in the biochemical pathways through which they fix carbon dioxide in photosynthesis and so differ in the degree to which they benefit from increased carbon dioxide . |
| 21 | Thus the child learns to heed the warning and so do without the time out . |
| 22 | A cutting is simply a length of stem top growth — with some plants it is a soft-tissue tip , with others a more mature hard-wood section — which , when inserted into soil or a suitable growing medium , and sometimes helped and encouraged by the presence of artificial hormones , will fight for life by producing roots , and so grow into a new individual plant . |
| 23 | He got his chance when the health and safety executive asked him to help publish this booklet promoting the safe use of trollies and so decrease in a biud . |
| 24 | Once we have discussed some of the different ways of thinking about law which are raised by the contributions in this section , we will try to place these within a wider framework and so work towards an assessment of the potential role of law and lawyers within the peace movement . |
| 25 | In reciprocal discourse , then , interlocutors can always establish , by the turn-taking of talk , the necessary grounds of shared knowledge , and so arrive at a mutually satisfactory schematic convergence . |
| 26 | Youth has always been the ideological sign of pleasure because it is a time of irresponsibility , possibility , change ; young people are envied and feared and so feature in the organization of consumption as a recurring adult fantasy . |
| 27 | It follows that any significant increase in the number of defendants who are committed for trial to the Crown Court instead of being dealt with by the magistrates will itself engender further delays and so add to the growing remand problem . |
| 28 | Thus a normal training time in the new time zone might coincide with night on home time and so lead to a physically poorer and psychologically dispiriting performance . |
| 29 | Then redaction criticism is of limited value , but its methods can help to bring out the special interests of the editor and so lead to a fuller appreciation of the theology expressed in his work . |
| 30 | He argued that the system was bound to collapse , either because a liquidity shortage would ensue if the supply of dollars failed to keep pace with the growing world demand , or because the persistent balance of payments deficits of the USA ( which provided dollars to the world ) would reduce confidence in the dollar and so lead to the conversion of official dollar balances into gold . |