Example sentences of "so [be] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assigns acquire their meaning through association with other signs or words and so are more complicated than signs , which derive their meaning from the direct experience of the individual ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 2 | In an increasing population , offspring produced early will themselves start to reproduce , and so are more valuable than those produced late . |
| 3 | So were as many as a hundred or so other females and now he lies surrounded by them , on guard and ready to do battle with any other male that tries to raid his harem . |
| 4 | We spent the whole morning climbing the steep , hard ice in the couloir 's depths , so were somewhat dismayed when two figures skiied up to the base of the couloir , raced up to and past us , virtually dispensing with runners and belays , and then abseiled down from the top of the hard climbing at one third height , passing us again . |
| 5 | She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’ |
| 6 | But I am not saying that Dr. Briant should necessarily be stopped from making his scientific searches , for his ability to do so is as God-given as that warning . |
| 7 | It has often provided dates where there was previously no method of dating available at all , and for many periods , accuracy to the nearest century or so is far better than produced by previous dating methods . |
| 8 | Third , there will be far less condensation on the glass , because the inner pane is not in contact with the cold outside air , and so is much warmer than single glazing . |
| 9 | Information is always and only perceptible in one configuration or another , and so is always theory-driven or theory-moulded . |
| 10 | The orchestral accompaniment from Maazel and the Pittsburgh SO is supremely alert and radiant sounding . |
| 11 | The climate for doing so is more favourable than for some years past . |
| 12 | The assessment did not contribute to the student 's final classification , and whether and how it might do so was neither clear nor a welcome issue in the colleges . |
| 13 | Um maybe it was particularly controversial because it seemed to be accusing er people , men in the family , particularly fathers , of having abused their children anally with all this sort of y'know homosexual connotations of that which activated the number of , as well as a number of fears about about child sex abuse and being a child abuser , it activated a number of rather more homophobic fears , both among the people so accused and in c our culture generally and er that perhaps explains why this er particular incident was so was so compelling and attracted so much com er publicity , according to Campbell anyway . |
| 14 | Because the new government had an effective army it could raise much more revenue from taxes than the King had done , and so was more powerful than the monarchy had been . |