Example sentences of "so [conj] [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At present , however , it still has limited availability so that for some patients sigmoidoscopy and barium enema examination provide an alternative .
2 The code in fact incorporates a degree of redundancy , so that in some cases as many as six different triplets code for the same amino acid .
3 The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin .
4 Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated .
5 Interestingly , it cuts across several parishes , so that in some cases very small areas of parish land are isolated behind the massive earthworks of the dyke .
6 In both studies the patients were retested within a week of ending treatment , however , so that in some cases infection may have persisted .
7 As the cations are leached , the acidity rises and the phosphorus becomes re-locked with the iron and aluminium , so that in some cases at least , phosphorus is the first limiting nutrient .
8 The last syllable is usually quite prominent so that in some cases it could be said to have secondary stress .
9 In the birds , the brain has evolved so that in some groups it is comparable in size and complexity to that found in primates .
10 A further difficulty is that , within a particular culture or sub-culture , religion will have a socially defined image , so that in some circumstances respondents might feel they ought to say that they are more ‘ religious ’ than they really are , or , in other circumstances , that they are less so .
11 The proportions of individuals with these alternative life styles differ between populations , so that in some areas of the world all individuals change sex .
12 Their relation is far closer than the arbitrary link between signifier and signified so that in some contexts ( irony or double entendre for example ) connotative meanings are part and parcel of the denoted meaning .
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