Example sentences of "so [adj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 So each doctrine is sometimes the shadow and sometimes the equivalent of the other …
2 The cyclical character of the work now acquires central importance ; under this system a right balance is needed between manpower and task size , and there is a need to schedule operations so each process is completed in each shift .
3 So each replicator is potentially the ‘ ancestor ’ of an indefinitely long line of descendant replicators , stretching into the distant future , and branching to produce , potentially , an exceedingly large number of descendant replicators .
4 Similarly , there is likely to be a direct relationship between the level of real national income and the rate of inflation — as the equilibrium level of national income approaches the ‘ full employment ’ level of national income , so inflationary pressure is likely to build up in an economy .
5 Laboulbeniales found on adult beetles apparently do not infect the larvae , so adult-to-adult contact is the sole method of spread .
6 So economic egalitarianism was not a dominant theme in Zuwaya talk of the just society : people approved of wealth used properly , hoped to acquire it themselves , and when they were successful regarded wealth-sharing arrangements within the tribe as a no doubt prudent , but also morally desirable , way of making money grow .
7 By the close of that decade even writers like Thackeray , who are content to believe that all is well in the other nation , are none the less keenly aware of the divide — though he sees no reason to cross it — between a gentleman and his servants , ‘ who live with us all our days and are strangers to us : so strong custom is , and so pitiless the distinction between class and class ’ .
8 I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay .
9 So strange behaviour is an indication of stress .
10 The reason why there is so little progress is horribly tangled up in the overall failure of Italy 's public life , a failure which is arousing mounting concern among her EC partners .
11 The acceptance of that affection would have automatically given that partner the right to carry it further into the realm of sex , where so often , so little affection is given .
12 The earthquake , of course , was an expensive nuisance , but earthquakes had never been particularly rare events in Italy , so little significance was attached to it .
13 Enthusiasts were less surprised that much of that investment went sour through design faults and technical failures , and grieved that so little thought was given to the simple , old fashioned matter of looking out , the deprivation of forward and backward view that had encouraged so much travel on the first generation of multiple units allegedly being due to the unions not liking the public seeing their men at work .
14 Part of the reason there has been so little bloodshed is that nobody yet is certain who killed Mr Gandhi or why .
15 The designer who today shows so little emotion was devastated and he still keeps a mural of revered fashion figures ( Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood are two of his heroines ) with Galeotti at the centre situated behind the enormous , clutter-free desk that 's one more powerful statement .
16 Their relative importance is even greater than the floods of humid , temperate regions , because so little erosion is effected between floods .
17 Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding .
18 It will long remain a problem to the average person that these sheds had such wide popularity and that so little use was made of the cheaper , cleaner , or , in fact , better umbrella sheds .
19 Perhaps , Bennett argues , the finding that so little use was made of exploratory methods in teaching was the teachers ' reaction to the presence of HMIs .
20 Until recently , however , fusion researchers thought that because so little energy is needed to polarise — and therefore to depolarise — a deuteron it would be pointless to think about polarising the fuel in a fusion reactor .
21 It remains something of a surprise that at a time when conserving species diversity is valued so highly , so little priority is given to listing the basics of what species there are to be conserved or lost .
22 Just as Wernicke 's aphasia is in some sense the opposite of Broca 's aphasia , so transcortical aphasia is in some sense the opposite of conduction aphasia , because in transcortical aphasia it is repetition which is the best -preserved of the patient 's linguistic abilities , with the patient being extremely poor at understanding speech .
23 It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days .
24 He reined across so that Burun was forced to stop .
25 The medical school and secondary education were randomly changed so that shortlisting was not influenced by attendance at a particular school or university .
26 he was out moaning again yesterday , so I just thought it was getting a bit long round where the old septic tank used to be oh sha n't and we 've done Tesco 's so that clock 's right is n't it ?
27 The social worker should undertake some of the tasks so that progress is made .
28 Must be fitted so that sweep is in direction of water flow .
29 So that figure 's also er er it 's helped a lot .
30 Sometimes the restriction is drafted so that consent is only required on the sale or disposal of a " material " part of the assets and undertaking .
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