Example sentences of "so for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a tricky thing called the seminally defiled state , and you had to make sure that when your old lady left the house she was doing so for a specific purpose , but on the whole even Marwan was pretty laissez-faire about a girl and a boy talking about subjects of mutual interest . |
| 2 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 3 | They must also continue to be so for a reasonable time after delivery . |
| 4 | Three lessons came from this raid : the need for means to identify friend from foe , always difficult in night actions but particularly so for a small party on a hostile shore ; the problems of coordinating secret operations with regular forces — friendly Spitfires had delayed the boats for an hour in mid-Channel on their outward voyage before establishing their true identity ; the difficulty of pin-point navigation , the third point , was the most crucial of all . |
| 5 | In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards . |
| 6 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 7 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 8 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 9 | So for a short while the two movements , Co-operation and trade unionism , had fused . |
| 10 | This is in a twelve hour so for a daily flow we 've This was a surveying period about twenty percent for to these for a full day . |
| 11 | Once again , even if the main points at issue had been side-stepped , the two countries were at peace , and had agreed to be so for a whole generation . |
| 12 | So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited . |
| 13 | For a load torque In some motors the torque/position characteristic is shaped to give a high value of stiffness near the equilibrium position , so for a given load torque the static position error is reduced . |
| 14 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 15 | It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames . |
| 16 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 17 | When each Evangelist recorded the stories about Jesus he did so for a particular purpose . |
| 18 | If religious example , and to a lesser extent philosophical theory , can influence our moral decisions , then that an action is legal or illegal will probably have even greater significance ; less so for an old lag , more so for a judge . |
| 19 | So for an adequate description and explanation of the penal crisis , we need to explore why there is this perception of injustice , and even to ask whether this perception is correct . |