Example sentences of "so [prep] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every so of ten the dog would break away and belt off to splash in the shallows or to investigate something smelly , thrown up by last night 's tide . |
| 2 | After an hour or so of this the group swam slowly and steadily away in a north-easterly direction along the Boston deeps , and they were watched following this course until the light failed . |
| 3 | He said yesterday : ‘ The situation is difficult … and we 're going to have to tread very carefully about how we proceed , and it 's important that we do so with all the information that we can possibly have . ’ |
| 4 | He said : ‘ The situation is difficult … and we 're going to have to tread very carefully about how we proceed , and it 's important that we do so with all the information that we can possibly have . ’ |
| 5 | The same humanistic sympathy which causes crimes against people to be criminalized also serves to mitigate the punishment ; so in general the severity of punishment should diminish as societies develop . |
| 6 | But worse still , just as the Poet and the Mistress connived at each other 's deception in 138 , just as the Poet connived at the Friend 's deception in 93 , so in 112 the Poet is inviting the Friend to complete the circle : ‘ For what care I who calls me well or ill , /So you o'er-green my bad , my good allow ? ’ |
| 7 | After 10 years nothing had happened , so in 1968 the Institute of Trademarks Agents called for urgent action . |
| 8 | So in 1901 the committee agreed an extension to 18 holes at a cost of not more than 50 guineas and Braid was invited to do his stuff . |
| 9 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 10 | So that that 's the so at first the claim is suspended . |
| 11 | But there was a tiny mistake in their calculations , so by 1545 the calendar year was ten days behind the solar year . |