Example sentences of "so [conj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So although Frazer was doing a kind of anthropology that was later to be rather dis despised , it had something to be said for it . |
| 2 | Drinking water was still taken from contaminated sources , so although pipes were laid to many individual houses and street standpipes by the 1840s , the water was impure ( see Cruickshank and Burton 1990 ) . |
| 3 | The Pools were working summer hours so although Joe was off it was a school day . |
| 4 | But beauticians might be greedy financially , he reckoned , so that idea was discarded together with that of shoplifting . |
| 5 | This was because coding of the data was in terms of its concentration , so that consistency was necessary to avoid spurious calculations . |
| 6 | He tried to keep too much under his personal control , so that letters were neglected and he was always late . |
| 7 | Mr. Barnes ' affidavit showed no more than that the Bank might exercise their own supervisory function once they had the result of the Federal Reserve Board inquiry in their hands , so that supervision was no more than a secondary purpose which did not qualify . |
| 8 | There were two Jamaican boys in there and they made a point of crowding the counter , holding their elbows akimbo , so that Shiva was unable to pick up his paper from the pile in front of them . |
| 9 | She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement . |
| 10 | Mellanby arrived in time to be heard , and succeeded in changing the decision so that Florey was appointed . |
| 11 | The approach was a reaction to the days when teams took the field without any overall plan of how they were to set about winning , when the only initiative that came from management was to encourage friendships in the team so that players were more ready to discuss tactics among themselves . |
| 12 | This belief was reinforced by the setting of non-zero safety targets , so that accidents were tolerated . |
| 13 | It may be that Archbishop Jaenberht refused to consecrate him so that Offa was driven to establishing a metropolitan see at Lichfield in order to procure an archbishop who would perform the ceremony . |
| 14 | Harbury tried to grab the apparent opportunity but Wickham neatly turned the conversation so that Shildon was able to go on where he had left off . |
| 15 | There was some discussion as to hardship , but that could cut both ways according to whether a large or small part was surrendered , so that hardship was not a matter which could be taken into account . |
| 16 | This was no doubt because Read had a way of writing about Abstract Art in his own highly abstract manner , so that abstraction was further compounded . |
| 17 | the prosperity of this land daily decreased , so that felicity was turned into misery and prosperity into adversity and the order of policy , and of the law of God and Man , confounded ; whereby it is likely this Realm to fall into extreme misery and desolation , which God defend , without due provision of couvenable remedy be had in this behalf in all goodly haste . |
| 18 | the prosperity of this land daily decreased , so that felicity was turned into misery and prosperity into adversity and the order of policy , and of the law of God and Man , confounded ; whereby it is likely this Realm to fall into extreme misery and desolation , which God defend , without due provision of couvenable remedy be had in this behalf in all goodly haste . |
| 19 | Now that cape , it would be raining on it all night , and we had no means of drying it so that cape was left on a hanger in the house and the next coat was taken and that was worn but for some reason it seemed to be always raining on nights and you had coat wet and you came to go out it was still damp . |
| 20 | The Peace of Paris left France and Spain ready to look for revenge , and Britain 's hasty departure from the war left Frederick feeling betrayed , so that Britain was quite likely to be involved in another war soon , and a war for which it would be hard to find allies . |
| 21 | For example , if you were able to work out a new method of organizing stock shelves so that components were more quickly available to people on the factory floor this would show perfectly that you ‘ are able to show initiative ’ . |
| 22 | Both marriages were childless ; so that Elizabeth was the last direct descendant of William Shakespeare . |
| 23 | It would enable them to develop their policy and practice on the ground , so that management was seen to deliver real and positive benefits to the wider community . |
| 24 | It is alleged that Guinness Brewing Worldwide failed to provide a safe procedure for work near high voltage electrical equipment so that non-employees were put at risk . |
| 25 | There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate . |
| 26 | By the 1850s the tradition had declined , so that Baudelaire was seeking to give new life to a decayed literary genre . |
| 27 | Women would increasingly in the future be recruited into the new semi-skilled jobs , often at piece rates , so that employers were able to benefit both from the job 's lack of a craft tradition behind it , and from a work-force trained from childhood to regard anything they did as unskilled . |
| 28 | Brough [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 522 the C.P.S. delayed bringing a charge for a short period so that B was deprived of the possibility of trial in the juvenile court . |
| 29 | However , one year 's public expenditure was heavily predetermined by previous decisions , so that changes were by and large only possible at the margins . |
| 30 | He said the next government , whatever its colour , must make attempts to improve the legal system so that youngsters were not allowed out on bail to commit more offences . |