Example sentences of "be so [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty arises partly in differentiating between what the user needs to know about the workings of the system , i.e. , how transparent the system should be so that the task can be performed effectively and efficiently . |
| 2 | Although it is argued that the total value of the firm will remain constant , it is shown that this will be so because the price of equity will fall so as to offset the impact of using debt . |
| 3 | This would certainly be so if the land were unregistered . |
| 4 | They could only be so if the seller had stolen the goods . |
| 5 | This may be so if the average for all industries is considered , but in the key areas of manufacturing where demand is more variable , the bonus-earnings ratio experiences greater volatility ( Hashimoto 1979 p. 1101 ) . |
| 6 | It should be public property and would be so if the millionaire had the same heart and principles of Beefy . |
| 7 | But if it is desirable to assign a property to an entity , then that will far more frequently , although not invariably , be needed precisely when the property is not an inherent quality of the entity in question ; further , this will especially be so when the property is tied to some particular event — hence the high incidence of present and past participles among postnominals . |
| 8 | This is so since the relation of dependence between the variables given in the law is wholly symmetrical : a later state of a system fixes an earlier state as much as an earlier fixes a later . |
| 9 | This is so that the crowd can give him a fair judgement . |
| 10 | The reason for this is so that the recipient can see at a glance what the letter is about . |
| 11 | This is so that the energy can be made to travel a much greater distance . |
| 12 | The kinematics of materials , considered as assemblages of particles may be described by either of the two methods and this is so whether the material is elastic , viscous or a classical fluid . |
| 13 | This is so because the world around us — including the social world — channels our actions , constraining us to act in particular ways . |
| 14 | We know that this is so because the X-ray diffraction pattern , which shows the crystal lattice spacing , does not change when cellulose swells in water . |
| 15 | Others may give less because they 've got a lot of members so that therefore it 's so that the provence as a whole could be advised . |
| 16 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 17 | Where that was so and the workforce was invited , or itself proposed , to set up an industrial co-operative , but understood the preservation of every job to be the prime objective , the necessary conditions for effective management were absent from the start . |
| 18 | It could be argued that this was so because the individualist Hobbesian anarchism which formed the theoretical model of the bourgeois economy provided no basis for any form of social organisation , including that of the family . |