Example sentences of "so [conj] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So although the gamma ray background tells us that there can be no more than 300 primordial black holes per cubic light-year on average , it tells us nothing about how common they might be in our own galaxy . |
| 2 | ( a ) Stamp duty The circumstances envisaged in this chapter fall within s83 of the Finance Act 1985 ( see Chapter 2 ) and a certificate that the instrument falls within Category H of the Schedule to the Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) can be given so that no stamp duty is payable . |
| 3 | When a voltage is applied to the tip of the AFM needle ( which is kept far enough away from the surface so that no tunnelling current can flow ) , the dopant 's electrons are disturbed and exert an electrostatic force on the tip . |
| 4 | We aim to reduce maximum class sizes so that no registration class in the country need have more than 30 pupils . |
| 5 | The balanced tree index allows for deletions without difficulty , because records are tagged but not removed , so that no data manipulation is required . |
| 6 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 7 | But there 's a great public interest in history in this country , so that every football club , every voluntary organisation , erm every town erm wants somebody to write its history . |
| 8 | We need electoral reform so that a minority government with a 100seat advantage can not implement the extremist policies of the Eighties again . |
| 9 | The purpose of these ports was to spread out American naval forces so that a sneak attack could not cripple the fleet , although others suggested that their intent was actually to spread the pork as widely as possible . |
| 10 | Hinged along its top edge , it was possible to open the gun so that a film loop could be inserted round its profile . |
| 11 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 12 | The overall aim is to improve the education and training environment so that a teacher/student ratio of 1:12 will be realised , and that ‘ the facilities available for education and training should be no less than the best provided in higher education establishment ’ . |
| 13 | Secondly the cleavage efficiency at each site is affected by the surrounding sequences so that a T residue before the GY site increases cleavage whereas an A reduces cleavage [ 8,23 ] . |
| 14 | So much so that a theatre fireman laughed so loud that he fell over , accidentally rang the firebell and brought the curtain down prematurely . |
| 15 | Then , through a series of interpreters , they called for the Nez Perce to cease making war upon other tribes , so that a trading post could be established . |
| 16 | The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install . |
| 17 | If the filling-in soil is a little moist , so that a moisture contact is made with the wet soil underneath , there should be no need for further watering . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that the supply of slaves dried up and that slaves are by their nature infertile , so that a slave population dies out if not constantly recruited ; but neither proposition can be defended . |
| 19 | I rotated the nails so that a cheese paring of wax was scoured from the surface of the drum . |
| 20 | The pace of change varied according to the region so that a building layout considered out of date in one area might still be fashionable in another . |
| 21 | Clearly the designer of the system with a load torque of 1 Nm would like to know what parameters of the motor and drive need to be changed so that a pull.out torque of 1 Nm is available at 500 steps per second . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom introduced legislation requiring the fitting of a ‘ dim-dip ’ device , invoking safety grounds , but it was held that the EEC directives on motor vehicle headlights regulated the matter in an exhaustive manner , so that a Member State could not require a form of lighting which was not listed in those directives . |
| 23 | The French manufacturers Arva , who have been making an interesting alternative range of transceivers for some years , have now developed a system of amplifying the radio signal so that a ski patroller in a helicopter can home in on a buried skier . |
| 24 | Later that year McNamara pressed for a conventional build-up by all the members of Nato so that a Warsaw Pact attack in the heart of Europe could be resisted long enough ( without recourse to nuclear weapons ) to persuade the USSR of the gravity of the situation and to encourage it to negotiate . |
| 25 | Provide the inside with a channel so that a table tennis ball thrown in the top will come out of the front . |
| 26 | The seed of such plants loses its viability — ability to germinate — more quickly , so that a spring sowing is likely to result in fewer seedlings . |
| 27 | Note that for total safety , the command procedure must also trap to the Exit routine on errors , so that a VMS error can not leave the user at the DCL prompt with any of the default privileges . |
| 28 | In general , it is fair to say that one can use a magnification of × 50 for each inch of aperture ( forgive my temporarily reverting to Imperial measure ! ) , so that a 3-inch refractor will bear a magnification of × 150 , a 6-inch will bear × 300 , and so on . |
| 29 | What 's the point of loading the reel with an unbranded twist that ‘ looked right ’ , when you can be sure that at some time or other the varying tensions on this material are going to produce lively snarls and inevitably weaken it , so that a line break happens just when you least want it . |
| 30 | Tax revenue = tax rate x output ( income ) , so that a 0% tax rate yields zero tax revenue , whatever the level of output . |