Example sentences of "so [conj] it [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So once it 's got onto our approved list , we 're pretty sure that we 're , we 're really in the right area . |
| 2 | This computer is a pretty pathetic one basically and it ca n't hold very much information programme and so once it 's had five records fed into it 's memory it 's full up which is pretty pathetic given the size of each record . |
| 3 | Okay , so once it 's signed and accepted , the client , does their part of the bargain , i.e. pays their premiums , then there 's no way we can decide to opt out of the contract , |
| 4 | Whilst we will review after the initial 3 months period I should be grateful if we take the arrangement up until the end of the calendar year so that it continues to operate whilst being reviewed . |
| 5 | But it is entitled to complain that it has to defend itself against attacks from an equally uneasy fusion of Daily Telegraph Toryism and free-market radicalism — so that it gets criticised both for going downmarket , and for not going far enough downmarket . |
| 6 | But is it possible to sharpen the trial procedure so that it does function as an effective arbiter of the truth value of the police case ? |
| 7 | Mr Mayor on on a point of order Mr Mayor er standing order sixty two refers explicitly to community charge or the poll tax , I think that before we move into this debate we should amend that so that it does refer to the council tax which is what we will be debating . |
| 8 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 9 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 10 | Or a great space hulk might be reported drifting in the void or in the warp , harbouring suspected pirates or , worse , those fierce cunning invasive Genestealers which could infest a human world just as termites infest a house — so that it seems to remain firm timber until it crumbles apart . |
| 11 | So that it 's done . |
| 12 | It 's got spies in it , so that it 's got certain contemporary interest , but erm that did seem to me to be a very fine and very moving novel , which I 'd strongly recommend . |
| 13 | In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's . |
| 14 | It is characteristic of Eliot to move in After Strange Gods from the savage notion of taboo , which he sees as having decayed in our time so that it has become ‘ used … in an exclusively derogatory sense ’ , to the Christian notion of ‘ heresy ’ as being vital to the interpretation of the modern world and to the health of the ( mainly Christian-based ) ‘ tradition ’ . |
| 15 | It will , though , be tempered by the healing gap of time , so that it has become ‘ This time the year before last … ’ not ‘ This time last year … ’ . |
| 16 | So much so that it has become a saw of pollsters and political commentators that ‘ election campaigns make no difference ’ . |
| 17 | Is it because all the people who have lived here have left little bits of themselves behind , so that it has become more than just a shelter against the wind and the rain ? |
| 18 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 19 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 20 | Writers in this tradition emphasize that there has been an historical change in the cultural and social meaning of the term ‘ family ’ over time , so that it has come to mean essentially the unit based on marriage and parenthood , with a secondary role only accorded to other kin relationships . |
| 21 | It has never been a strong language because it has produced little or no literature , so that it has seemed to have more of folklore about it than utility . |
| 22 | Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp reported first quarter net profit more than twice what they were in the year-ago period — figures , page five — and says that demand for the Symmetrix 5500 series disk arrays has been greater than the company expected , so that it has had to increase the build plan for the remainder of the year . |
| 23 | Using a more powerful cocktail of bio-tech moisturisers , Vitamins A and E together with deHydrocholesterol , Time-Complex aims to ‘ re-programme ’ the skin so that it starts to behave with youthful efficiency . |
| 24 | ‘ Belinda , love , can you remember exactly how you are , and go and get your brush and brush your hair round so that it lies spread out on the chair ? ’ she said . |
| 25 | This reinforces the likelihood that he or she will smack the child again in similar circumstances , so that it tends to become a way of life . |
| 26 | Their essential feature is that they misdirect the enemy 's attack , so that it fails to damage any vital organs . |
| 27 | ‘ A society which inflates citizenship so that it expands to occupy the total area of an individual 's life is indeed in danger of becoming totalitarian ’ . |
| 28 | Again , the main technique is of modifying the structure of the face-to-face interview so that it comes to resemble , in certain respects , a conversation . |
| 29 | Then Braque has capitalized on the element of ambiguity in the Demoiselles ( it is not immediately clear for instance whether the leg of the ‘ demoiselle ’ on the left is the far leg or the near leg , and the lower part of the twisted forearm of the squatting figure is left undefined ) as a means of emphasizing the flatness of the canvas he was working on : the far buttock of the Nu is connected to the foremost leg and heightened in tone so that it appears to stand in front of the nearer part of the figure ; if the outline of the neck were extended it would not join the shoulder naturalistically but pass by its outer edge , and the fact that the outline is deliberately broken allows the neck , shoulder and arm to flow into each other and fuse . |
| 30 | It also depends on how the gesture is extended in time and space so that it appears to emanate from the dancer 's concentration on the purpose of the gesture . |