Example sentences of "and [noun pl] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 What the clergy particularly wanted confirmed was the freedom of the church , notably from the kind of arbitrary seizure of its property and goods so recently experienced ; but all subjects were eager to curb the malpractices which accompanied ( in these years and for long afterwards ) the collection of prises or purveyances as well as the uncustomary burdens by which Edward tried to augment his revenue .
2 Considerable speculation exists as to the possible location of a new permanent site for the Modern Collection and suggestions so far have included the former Battersea and Bankside power stations on the south bank of the Thames and Canary Wharf in Docklands .
3 The foregoing summarises some of the ideas and premises so far written about , and on which the conception of the Created God rests .
4 I have many reasons for visiting Van Diemens Land first — the climate is more like that of England and many of the Birds , I believe only pigeons may visit that island from the Continent , many are local species and others so nearly allied that [ only ] an inspection of them in a state of nature is possible to ascertain their being specifically different .
5 Now she could see red houses , swimming-pools , race tracks , skyscrapers sticking up like teeth , and roads and railways so uniformly crisscross they seemed like tiles on a vast kitchen floor .
6 Shelley wandered round the apartment blocks , in the shade of the abundant trees and shrubs so well arranged about the complex .
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