Example sentences of "and so [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was absolutely right ; shocked a minute after training , most chicks showed amnesia and so pecked the bead when they were tested some hours later ; delay the shock to ten minutes after training and most chicks avoided it subsequently . |
| 2 | The 1921 Act revoked this unworkable requirement and so condoned the concept of test auditing and , in more recent times , the adoption of a systems-based audit . |
| 3 | They had no faith in Smith and so rejected the agreement he made . |
| 4 | He had been domiciled in England since 1954 and so fulfilled the BBBC residential qualifications . |
| 5 | Christine reached the hut from the road by a steep track through the scrub and so avoided the house . |
| 6 | Ian got in earlier than any of the clerics and so avoided the business of greetings . |
| 7 | The first , I believe , is a case where the Court guessed , but guessed incorrectly , at the parliamentary intention and so construed the Act in a way which accomplished a most desirable social purpose but which nevertheless contradicted the clear and unequivocal terms in which it was expressed . |
| 8 | The first drugs which could be relied on to reduce the dangerously high arterial pressure which precedes strokes and heart failure were substances which blocked the actions of acetylcholine at these ganglia , and so prevented the passage of nervous messages which put up the blood pressure . |
| 9 | In this case , ITF officials blacked a ship with the result that lock keepers , in breach of their contract with port authorities at Hull , refused to operate gates and so prevented the ship from sailing . |
| 10 | We postulated that hypothermia may have reduced formation of the toxic reactive intermediates produced by metabolism of paracetamol , and so prevented the development of hepatitis in this high risk case . |
| 11 | Essentially , the cold war preserved American power structures and so prevented the emergence of a new set of political institutions which could regulate the post-Fordist global economy , and which could manage and respond to the dramatic changes in the balance of the world economy as a result of the introduction of new methods of production , especially in Japan and Western Europe , based on the intensive use of information technologies . |
| 12 | I should be sorry if the debate on the Bill were to be unnecessarily prolonged and so prevented the House from debating the Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill that hon. Members are waiting to discuss . |
| 13 | But Dot had changed and so had the skirt and cardigan . |
| 14 | The disturbance had slowed them , and so had the loss of two workers . |
| 15 | Legend has it that Oliver Cromwell on his way to lay siege to Middleton Hall during the Civil War found the old packhorse bridge too narrow for his cannons and wagons and so had the bridge widened . |
| 16 | I certainly had had enough and so had the poor lady , judging by her slight breathlessness , flushed cheeks and waving handkerchief . |
| 17 | And so had the Pitts . |
| 18 | The city was there , surely enough , but the lake had gone , and so had the Jura beyond it ! |
| 19 | The bales knocked together again , but the fall from the roof-breach had dwindled , and so had the rush from the windows . |
| 20 | The Butterley Company found that men whose wives could not find work were less likely to stay at Ollerton , and so planned the building of factories in the village which would ensure both that men were not lost and that family incomes could be supplemented . |
| 21 | To go out well-dressed , he checked his appearance in the mirror , and so draped the toga on his body that a graceful knot gathered the folds , arranging them not randomly but with care , so that the sinus was composed to flow down the side , defining its outline . |
| 22 | I was two hours too early for dinner and so spent the interval in a cloud of steam with my wet clothes draped around the fire . |
| 23 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 24 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 25 | Those placed in an ‘ express ’ stream had even less reason for preserving a broad curriculum : like myself and my contemporaries in Cardiff High School they rattled along to their first public examination ( O level after 1951 ) at the age of fifteen , and so secured the privilege of early entry — together with the possibility of some extra time — in the sixth form . |
| 26 | Having regard to the true construction of section 9 of the Act , the House concluded that the refusal of the council to make a refund was not in accordance with the statutory intention and so affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 593 allowing the taxpayers ' claim for judicial review of the decision . |
| 27 | Bishop Tubbs did not have this copy in his hand and so asked the 1662 question , and Madge was asked if she would obey . |
| 28 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
| 29 | He was fortunate enough to marry Louis XII 's only daughter and so became the appointed successor . |
| 30 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |