Example sentences of "[coord] so [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 2 | Or so goes the conventional wisdom . |
| 3 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 4 | Female sexuality causes men to lose self-control so that they cease to be responsible for their actions — or so runs the accepted wisdom . |
| 5 | Or so runs the common accusation . |
| 6 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 7 | Now , although the haven is badly silted , little fishing vessels and a handful of pleasure craft have moorings here and so maintain the ceaseless nautical atmosphere which Saltfleet has exuded throughout the centuries . |
| 8 | Alternatively , the Soviets might select the site at Brawdy as a target for a sudden nuclear strike in order to demonstrate that they were able to protect their submarines in the Atlantic and so maintain the nuclear threat which the presence of such posed to the United States . |
| 9 | The new scale of architecture has since posed insuperable problems ; and the earlier view that town planning could provide a protective shield of refinement over new development and so avoid the brash , the banal and the ugly , was not to be . |
| 10 | This means that neutrons produced in polarised-deuterium reactions would travel perpendicularly through the walls of the reactor , and so follow the shortest possible path through the material of the wall and create less radiation damage . |
| 11 | " with the view to promoting the co-operation of the two schools and the possibility of avoiding the teaching subjects in the two schools having a tendency to overlap and so bringing the two schools more fully in accord with the requirements of the town . " |
| 12 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 13 | First , acyclovir triphosphate might simply compete with dGTP for a binding site on the polymerase enzyme , and so prevent the proper incorporation of dGTP into DNA . |
| 14 | When , however , need and dare are used non-assertively , it is possible for the speaker to feel that there is nothing real ( no real need or daring ) situated in time to constitute a before-position in relation to the event evoked by the infinitive , and so to use the bare infinitive after these verbs as with the modals . |
| 15 | It is far better to ventilate the room well , and so remove the damp air causing the condensation . |
| 16 | In parts of India , goats graze the cotton after harvest and so remove the last few infested bolls and stalks . |
| 17 | The fundamental religious awareness ‘ leads necessarily in its development to fellowship or communion , and so forms the different religious communities and traditions of mankind . |
| 18 | I certainly had had enough and so had the poor lady , judging by her slight breathlessness , flushed cheeks and waving handkerchief . |
| 19 | But one broad flank of the colony faces east and so catches the full warmth of the rising sun . |
| 20 | Shares , goes the patter , are products like any other and so deserve the same marketing effort . |
| 21 | These are Australia 's national colours and so lack the prized all-American look . |
| 22 | Thus in ( 36 ) , a typical example of the infinitive of result , managed evokes all the efforts which the subject had to make in order to attain the result and so situates the third-person support in time before — and all the way up to — the point at which " getting free " is actualized . |
| 23 | It helps them to follow the scene in their high-speed world , and so track the rapid movements of predators of prey . |
| 24 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 25 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 26 | Alexander realized that the root cause of many problems was the over-tightening of the neck muscles , causing an interference with the Primary Control and so throwing the whole body out of balance . |
| 27 | In the same way , if you place thin flower petals on top of any lumpy plant material , its uneven shape can damage or crease the petals , and so mar the finished result . |
| 28 | Media advertising almost certainly has an effect , and so does the prior socialization of women for domesticity . |
| 29 | The opposition parties support Iraq , and so does the Constitutional Union , which is in the ruling coalition . |
| 30 | They sailed overhead and swayed with the slightly erratic action of the cableway holding them , bumping into each other now and again and so producing the clinking noise just audible over the din . |