Example sentences of "so [adv] it [be] " in BNC.
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1 | The blow could n't have been self-inflicted , so presumably it 's murder , or manslaughter , or some peculiar accident . |
2 | The charge will be two pounds a day , which will include their meal , for which they already pay erm I think it 's ninety p at the moment , so effectively it 's an increase of a pound and ten p . |
3 | So mostly it is wise to direct the child to the subject . |
4 | So mostly it 's trumpets . ’ |
5 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
6 | I know I 'll regret this in the morning , but I want you so badly it 's a risk I 'll just have to take . |
7 | One had mange so badly it was nearly bald : it moped around , scratching the exposed pink skin that had cracked and flaked where it stretched briefly over the jutting spine and ribcage . |
8 | Then we realised that she 'd had diarrhoea so badly it was actually oozing out of her collar ! |
9 | The players respond so slowly it 's like playing via satellite , and they jump about 300 feet into the air to head the ball ! |
10 | ( Interestingly enough , I could n't get what I considered to be a good cup of coffee when I was in the States , so perhaps it 's a dying art … |
11 | But a separate room does mean a lot of running back and forth with this and that , so perhaps it 's not really the best option . |
12 | So perhaps it 's time to look to ourselves for fun , not to chemicals that make us edgy , paranoid , ill — and broke . |
13 | Certainly not the truth ; so perhaps it 's as well they were never taken . |
14 | Risky Woods is the type of game which will keep kids quiet for hours , so perhaps it 's ideal for Christmas . |
15 | My family were n't wealthy , could n't have afforded to send me away till it was over , could n't have kept it secret , so perhaps it 's just as well it turned out as it did . |
16 | ‘ Yes , we do , so perhaps it 's time you met your companions . |
17 | Er we actually need to withdraw from but I think in relation to the other business about the erection of the I think that essentially routes are agreed without er without so perhaps it 's structural erm maintenance . |
18 | There has been no positive response to our representations so perhaps it 's time to be more firm |
19 | This is what she wants and so perhaps it is what she needs . |
20 | But I can do what I want , so perhaps it is possible to use one or two frames of a timpani shot to realize a particular moment in the music . |
21 | So perhaps it is not so far-fetched after all to say that ‘ marriages are made in heaven ’ ! |
22 | The E-culture has only been raving since 1986 , so perhaps it is too early to tell if it can cause long term mental changes . |
23 | So perhaps it is because they have angular gyri that chimpanzees have been able to sign successfully . |
24 | As Ian Oswald once remarked , we know very little about the function of everyday , waking consciousness , so perhaps it is over-optimistic to believe that we should achieve a complete understanding of sleeping consciousness merely because we have reliable physiological indices of when dreams are likely to occur . |
25 | So perhaps it is no wonder that we are not the only ones who perceive the system as unjust , and that it finds itself with a crisis of legitimacy on its hands . |
26 | ‘ Well , ’ said Ratagan , ‘ for the next day or two it seems hardly likely that I will be wetting my throat at all , so perhaps it is just as well I indulged in a draught or three last night . ’ |
27 | ‘ So perhaps it is not my sauce , but the atropine he does not like ? ’ |
28 | But then both you and RIPPOE said that her mother was the same and always arrived late and so on for everything , so perhaps it is genetic ! |
29 | The dead are impersonal , and so perhaps it is of no especial moment that they should be disturbed — or so I might once have argued on Victor 's behalf . |
30 | By the time the eighth wicket went down the lead was already 264 , so perhaps it was unkind of Baptiste and Holding to hammer 150 in 113 minutes for West Indies ' ninth wicket record against England . |