Example sentences of "so [conj] [art] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 Doubtless enamoured as he was to see his name in print , I hope that now , by use of the same medium , he will understand my thoughts which I sent with equally heartfelt intensity : so where the f— was Morrissey at Finsbury Park on Sunday ?
2 It was the submission of the appellant , B. & Q. , that your Lordships were bound to refer the matter to the European Court of Justice , whereas the respondent councils submitted that , following the Conforama and Marchandise decisions , the conclusion reached by Hoffmann J. could not possibly be disturbed so that no reference was required .
3 In Cadbury Ltd v Halliday [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 649 , it was decided that the words " Extra value " written on the wrapper of a bar of chocolate , did not relate to any of the items listed in s2 so that no offence was committed .
4 The first reason why the market could no longer be perceived as limiting economic power was that the structure of the market ceased to correspond even loosely with the model of perfect competition which required numerous firms operating in the same industry so that no firm was capable of affecting the price of its product by varying the level of the output of that product .
5 There was another boat not far ahead , going the same way , so that every lock was ‘ against ’ them , which meant they must empty each one before they could enter and must then fill it again .
6 But it is difficult to imagine that shaikhs had more power in the pre-Sanusi period than in the 1970s : if anything , accretions of status increased their authority during the Italian government and the kingdom ( so that a shaikh was an obvious candidate for the office of al-mukhtar al-mahalli ) .
7 Having struggled over preparation , he managed to give a light-hearted and amusing touch which caught the attention of his audience , so that the message was accepted and gave food for subsequent thought .
8 Except that there appeared to have been a miscalculation — one which Rostov himself did not yet understand — so that the pod was now heading unscathed for the outer atmosphere of Tarvaras .
9 Galway might be a misprint for Galloway , so that the herd was in fact White Galloways .
10 The laissez-faire leader also made suggestions , but was more ‘ standoffish ’ and did not involve himself with the boy 's welfare , nor did he join in the group activities , so that the boys were effectively left to do what they wanted by themselves .
11 The Revenue contended that regardless of the amount of the capital appointed each appointee was liable on the full amount of the trust income so that the Crown was entitled to as many times the tax on the income as appointees year by year .
12 I noticed that its wing and tail feathers faded out gradually as they got further away from its body , so that the sun was peering through near the tips as the feathers became thinner .
13 In many geomorphological histories there has been a propensity to ignore the most recent stages or time periods so that the Quaternary was often treated in less detail and the Holocene or last 10,000 years seldom referred to at all .
14 Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed .
15 Then I slowly turned the can and the leg the other way up , so that the can was over the leg .
16 Also on the floor were three or four framed pictures which had been trampled stamped upon , so that the frames were broken and the glass shattered to fragments .
17 At one end was a compartment for the two armed guards who always travelled with a consignment of this kind , and in the partition between their compartment and the portion where the bullion was stored , there were portholes , or bull 's eyes , of stout glass , so that the interior was always under their view .
18 Or perhaps through erm corruption in that the landlords are paying backhanders to them so that the landlords were left in effect with more land than they ought to have been .
19 Natives put upon the scent found military accoutrements and other articles thrown out of the same chest , so that the drawings were clearly the object of the theft .
20 The Court of Appeal held that the buyer dealt as a consumer , so that the clause was inapplicable ; however , Dillon LJ , obiter , suggested that had the buyer not been dealing as a consumer , the clause would have been reasonable because the buyer ( 1 ) was " ex hypothesi dealing in the course of business and [ the managing director ] was not devoid of commercial experience " and ( 2 ) the supplier was a hire purchase company , not a dealer , and had never had possession of or inspected the car .
21 This was toast which was held on a toasting fork and was pressed against the bars so that the bread was scorched , it was then quickly turned ninety degrees so that it finished up with a grid pattern rather like a leaded window .
22 For Mead , the actor was shaped by these responses from others , so that the self was a social product .
23 so that the folk were
24 Those nearest the dais carried raised torches in their hands , so that the dais was illuminated and the Sheikh clearly visible to all .
25 No on when it came down the bag missed the hanger instead of one bit going each side of the hanger so that the clothes were inside
26 From Moscow came buyers of lambskins ; from Asia Minor , French dealers for the export of walnut-trees ; from the Caucasus , Armenians and Jews , who bought huge quantities of carpets , so that the price was almost doubled .
27 Whereas Paneth and Peters used hydrogen gas , Tanberg ‘ made ’ the gas from the water and , what 's more , he used palladium for the cathode so that the hydrogen was attracted naturally to it .
28 Those ended with the statement , ‘ … the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly ; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong ; so that the land was filled with them . ’
29 Their swords and spears flashed , and a great cloud of arrows came flying , so that the air was black with them .
30 On each side of the room where they stood were massive iron furnaces ; great , glowing stoves that belched out waves of heat so that the air was heavy and fetid .
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