Example sentences of "so [verb] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All outsiders required protection , so business was good for ‘ the technicals , ’ so named because the UN could not employ gangsters and paid them instead as technical assistants . |
| 2 | The toxins secreted by the skin are among the most poisonous substances known , and these frogs are so named because the Noamana , Choco and Cuna Indians of Colombia use the poison to tip their arrows and blow-darts . |
| 3 | ‘ It just so happened that the Rachel killing was at that time . ’ |
| 4 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 5 | It so happened that the UN Secretary-General , Perez de Cuellar , was himself a Peruvian . |