Example sentences of "so [det] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from educational and other handicaps , this was one reason why they and even their social betters took so little part in government , leaving it so often to Balts or Germans before 1917 , and to other non-Russians after that date . |
| 2 | But it places so little emphasis on resistance to the dominant culture , that it either becomes a sort of ‘ toothless liberalism ’ ( Segal 1987 : 24 ) , or ignores politics completely . |
| 3 | The complex processes set in train with such a blithe disregard of consequence and so little consideration of effect , will of course work their way out in many dimensions . |
| 4 | The motives for seeking office are partly that the life of a backbench MP soon becomes unsatisfactory and offers so little scope for achievement , for registering even the smallest impact on a restricted area of.public life , that the average MP looks with envy on any minister who has a positive job to perform , however limited the field . |
| 5 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 6 | ‘ What is the matter , you Christian men , that you so greatly esteeme so little portion of golde more than your own quietnesse … |
| 7 | The almost incessant labour which that art requires leaves so little time for study that one can hardly find any person of sufficient experience capable of writing . |
| 8 | Given that we have so little information about rape , does the increased press reporting , given its restricted nature , hinder the chance of a raped woman getting a fair ‘ trial ’ ? |
| 9 | Given the pre-eminence of the multi-national corporation in international development , it is surprising that it is accorded so little attention in development literature … . |
| 10 | Out services can be improved and extended so that care at home becomes a real option for more people . |
| 11 | It was at that stage , Sir , that Mrs Brown made a claim for benefit to support herself and her eleven year old son and so that claim for benefit was a perfectly legitimate one . |
| 12 | So another reason for church planting has to do with taking more ground for Jesus . |
| 13 | Excitement fades to disillusionment , and so another piece of technology goes to gather dust on a storeroom shelf . |
| 14 | ‘ It helps to be a woman and I can exploit that when it suits because there are so few women in Parliament and it concerns a lot of people . |
| 15 | Explaining why she thought there were so few women in science , she said : |
| 16 | Why are there so few collectors of art in the United Kingdom ? |
| 17 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 18 | So this wealth of information — all of it updated much more regularly than you could expect through normal information channels — is greatly under-used . |
| 19 | So this type of mortgage is most suited to individuals who are able to plan ahead with confidence . |
| 20 | So this element in documentary programmes is a good source of examples of authentic , spontaneous speech . |
| 21 | Right okay so this group of study here , you can get all your stuff and your videos , follow me and I 'll take you to the rooms . |
| 22 | So this aspect of defence is quite close to being a private good as it is excludable and rivalrous , hence some households build their own shelters . |
| 23 | So this figure of fun is going to bed now . |
| 24 | And so this interest in marriage and this kind of fascination and you kn I think it would be very natural , I think , for a gay person to feel terribly envious of people who can create a family and er and this kind of fascination with babies . |
| 25 | Even so this attribute of mind has a biological basis , and intercalates with thought forms of a very different nature . |
| 26 | In many parts of the land you could n't get ‘ Royals ’ so this sort of brogue ( black ) was worn as an acceptable alternative . |
| 27 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
| 28 | We should also remember that just as not every piece of writing need go through one or more stages of drafting , so some pieces of writing need not be pursued to a finished stage . |
| 29 | Just as adherents of astrology , when predicted events fail to appear , find reasons from within the scheme of astrology for the failure , so some apologists for psychoanalysis find reasons why their hypotheses and predictions do not stand the test . |
| 30 | However , in the latter city , building costs were almost as high as those of London , so some form of subsidy was necessary . |