Example sentences of "so a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Culpeper remarked in 1655 that , as Reformed theology rejected a pope in religion , so a reformed science rejected a pope in philosophy . |
| 2 | Walling may have one or two faces , so a one-face finish may not be suitable for using as the edge of a tread instead of a paving slab , but would be for use underneath the slab . |
| 3 | As when he talks about colour , he distinguishes between the painter 's requirements and those of the sightseer ; so a dry heat may produce an aerial density in the atmosphere very favourable to view the scenery , which if lit by ‘ a cloudless sky will be too general to please the ( painter 's ) eye of taste . ’ |
| 4 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 5 | So a wide range of services are provided . |
| 6 | However , just as at a certain place on the earth 's surface we can still call ‘ down' ’ the direction towards the centre of the earth , so a living organism that finds itself in such a world at a certain period of time can define the ‘ direction ’ of time as going from the less probable state to the more probable ( the former will be the ‘ Past' ’ and the latter the ‘ Future' ’ ) and by virtue of the definition he will find that his own small region , isolated from the rest of the universe , is ‘ initially' ’ always in an improbable state . |
| 7 | The final pitch is straightforward ( although some of the rock is a little on the loose side , so a cautious approach is wise ) until the final solid corner is reached and bridged to the cliff top . |
| 8 | So a rich peasant will be able to keep all of the land he was working himself , all the land he was working by hired labour and land that he hired , er that he rented out as long as the amount he , he rented out did not exceed all of the land that he worked himself or used hired labour . |
| 9 | The revised format produced by the Senate is very unlikely to agree with that produced by the House of Representatives , so a joint Senate/House committee is then established to negotiate an agreed document , which the President then has to decide to accept , renegotiate , or veto ( usually in part rather than in its entirety ) . |
| 10 | Surveys carried out for market research purposes can not normally cover the whole of the relevant population , so a representative sample of it has to be taken . |
| 11 | So a radical reform of the Christian faith is needed , to bring about an essential re-focus on the importance of the family . |
| 12 | So a small-scale inquiry was carried out by the Welsh Consumer Council in connection with our report , to survey the availability of credit to Welsh rural shoppers in the centres they would use . |
| 13 | So a mixed ending , part loss , part that essential gain , will arise almost naturally . |
| 14 | Just as assets are usually but not invariably founded on legal rights , so a legal obligation is a common feature of a liability but is not always present . |
| 15 | So a modern engine can need decarbonising in as little as 20,000 miles from new . |
| 16 | So a modern humour on the stage might be a really sort of over-the-top virilous feminist . |
| 17 | The breed is prone to occasional stomach troubles and bouts of enteritis so a good-quality diet is essential . |
| 18 | When sequences are similar the team will indicate their preferences so a rough cut can be made by the editor , who joins all the desired sequences together and cuts the whole thing to the exact time . |
| 19 | It is coercive and not mere idle abuse and demands either action or abstention from action on the part of the recipient , so a mere announcement by A that he proposes to strike B is not , for the purposes of the law , a ‘ threat ’ and can not of itself give rise to a claim for damages . |
| 20 | So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm . |
| 21 | With recent advances in technology , even personal computers now have much increased memory capacity , so a lexical look-up technique which uses a large vocabulary ( say , anything over 20,000 words ) is now feasible . |
| 22 | Rpm , MAP , CHT , ammeter , carb temp and fuel gauges are set below , with carb heat , wobble-pump and emergency fuel and oil cut-off levers protruding beside the oil filler ( which is in the cockpit by the co-pilot 's left knee so a frozen frontiersman can easily check it and top up ) . |
| 23 | So a cheap transistor would not be suitable . |
| 24 | So a final piece of advice . |
| 25 | So a violent kind of self-accelerating process would take place , with the magma rapidly blowing itself up into a froth of gas and liquid rock and blasting itself clear out of the vent . |
| 26 | Right , so a complete brainstorm , and we 'll start again , and we 'll come back to those in a little while . |
| 27 | So a complete fool will not acquire a following . |
| 28 | So a married man who wishes to become a satyāgrahi requires the consent of his wife since her rights have to be taken into consideration in this matter . |
| 29 | It is often not convenient to square a large integer so a selected part of the key may be squared instead . |
| 30 | If equipment has to travel between hospitals and schools , it must be able to withstand stress and so a strong carrying case is preferable . |