Example sentences of "[adj] and so [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus interest rates may be too high and so discourage investment , while what finance there is for investment is channelled into socially inefficient uses . |
| 2 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 3 | They uneasy structure militated against spontaneity or the development of real humour — the show looked uncomfortable and so did Normski . |
| 4 | Is it not likely that the healing powers are continually trying to maintain order in the system but once the external stresses reach a certain level this can no longer be done ‘ passively ’ but the very attempt to keep a balance produces outward signs which we generally find uncomfortable and so call disease ; which is literally a lack of ease or disease . |
| 5 | Both treatments would enable patients to be awake and so to receive light at their earlier ‘ critical period ’ . |
| 6 | On a political level , these schemes help to maintain the status quo , because they satisfy some of the minimum housing needs of the poor and so reduce pressure for radical reforms . |
| 7 | The School Government Regulations even allow the governors to decide that any matter ‘ by reason of its nature ’ should be treated as confidential and so exclude papers and minutes about it from public scrutiny . |
| 8 | This practice dictates that there is only so much money available and so meeting needs , and therefore needs themselves , must fit within financial constraints . |
| 9 | I married young and so did Joanne and Betty . ’ |
| 10 | Evidence from the results of parallel tests with questions differing only in the numbers used showed that test results for individuals can be variable and so produce misclassifications of mastery . |
| 11 | If taxes are raised to finance the spending , the policy will still be expansionary and so reduce unemployment so long as the taxes raised do not exceed the increase in government spending by a certain amount . |