Example sentences of "[conj] so the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be more surprising if it were otherwise — or so the new novel seems to tell , or remind . |
| 2 | I understand John McGrath 's sentiments but over the last decade or so the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for . ’ |
| 3 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 4 | Or so the medical propaganda would have you believe . |
| 5 | After a mile or so the Old Man is reached , just south and west of the actual Point Of Stoer ( 25 minutes ) . |
| 6 | Angry young Tamils had started their terrorist movements , among them the Tamil Tigers , and so the terrible cycle of destruction and retribution began . |
| 7 | As winter really begins to set in , flowers are not the most obvious things to look for , and so the curious botanist turns to related interests . |
| 8 | And so the poor man had been obliged to die in as Christian a manner as possible in the arms of the atheistical Magistrate who had , of course , listened without the least sympathy to Mr Bradley 's last pious ejaculations , impatiently muttering : " Yes , yes , to be sure , do n't worry about it , " as poor Mr Bradley , looking up into that last , glaring , free-thinking , diabolical , ginger sunset of the Magistrate 's whiskers , commended his soul to God . |
| 9 | Johnson tushed , and so the other clergyman , Mr Grant ( being well-bred ) , said the prayers , evoking a comment from their distinguished visitor who upbraided him just a little for not including the Lord 's Prayer . |
| 10 | He said nothing but ‘ te-total ’ would satisfy him , and so the Teetotal Movement was born . |
| 11 | And so the mutual help and support which should have typified Christian brothers became a stick which the Western church used in the coming crusade to beat Orthodox and infidel alike . |
| 12 | But for many parts of Orkney this new service would be years away in reaching them and so the familiar thump thump thump of that diesel statomatic generator filled the air . |
| 13 | She had gone from Tallis 's life , then , and so the final link with Wynne-Jones was severed . |
| 14 | The reader will have guessed , no doubt , that the quest was unsuccessful , and so the final section will suggest an operative model with practical implications for community work practitioners and researchers . |
| 15 | Frankie was their triumph and so the final point of their story was n't its ‘ outrage ’ but its cosiness . |
| 16 | Such processes will be temperature-and-time-dependent and so the uniform stress assumption would be expected to fail at low temperatures and the composite elastic moduli to approach the ( Voigt ) upper-bound values . |
| 17 | Light , of course , is the fastest thing in the universe , and so the collapsed star has cut itself off . |
| 18 | With reference to figure 10.8(a) , application of Kirchhoff 's voltage law to the input circuit yields But and so the closed-loop gain is in accordance with equation ( 10.26 ) . |
| 19 | That is to say , W is from ten thousand to a million times higher than G and so the critical crack length is longer in direct proportion . |
| 20 | The technological catch though is that the confinement time drops as the RF power pushes the temperature up , and so the critical value of the fusion product is still out of reach . |
| 21 | Vantage have used a sealed back on the VG-15 and so the reverse side is featureless , save for the mains cable which trails from its lower edge . |
| 22 | Conversely , the character and so the supraspecific group membership of the species that have originated in any area is determined by conditions there . |
| 23 | There was no existing model to use as a comparison of events and so the moral majority focused on clearly visible symbols such as disordered hair , clothing , and lifestyle , to articulate their fear of the ‘ alternative society ’ and its drug fiends . |
| 24 | Since the shift in demand was not predictable , even rational people would not have expected it , and so the typical supplier would be finding the price of the good on her island higher than she was initially expecting the average price to be . |
| 25 | And so the early part of the night passed quite quietly . |
| 26 | As the boundaries of the relevant area are straight lines it can be evaluated quite simply : and so the average torque can be found from : To allow for slight changes in the load torque , due to wear of the components during the system 's working life , the constant frequency clock would be set between 90 and 100 steps . |
| 27 | And so the verbal expression ‘ I have toothache ’ that replaces it , is not a description either — either of behaviour or of feeling . |
| 28 | And so the long lease was dreamt up by Grand Metropolitan and taken up with enthusiasm by the rest of the national pub owners and brewers . |
| 29 | Now the audience 's concentration began to guide him : his inflections were simple , his rhythms true : this in turn increased the audience 's interest and so the two-way current began to flow . |
| 30 | And so the experienced surgeon is able to apply his real concentration at the decisive moment . |