Example sentences of "so [adv] [was/were] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons he was able to run his brothel so successfully was because he was homosexual , and therefore had no interest in the stock . |
| 2 | The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture . |
| 3 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 4 | She had to admit , however , that the main reason that she had phoned the Symses and answered their appeal so promptly was that it took her out of the house , and away from the strain of being with Mark in public while the incident of the night before still divided them . |
| 5 | What these critics did not see so clearly was that elsewhere customary tenures had so confused conceptions of ownership that a clear , profitable , and workable landlord-tenant relationship was difficult to conceive ; while in many regions customary quit rents gave the landlord little surplus to invest , even had he been inclined so to do . |
| 6 | The only tangible accomplishments to emerge from the peace process so far were as follows . |
| 7 | All that was apparent so far was that Burun 's intent was to divert Artai 's interest away from Jehana . |