Example sentences of "so [conj] [noun prp] [be] " in BNC.

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1 So although M&S is regarded by the stock market analysts as a superbly run business , the lack of real growth in consumer spending has led some to say sell the shares mistakenly in my view .
2 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 .
3 The Pools were working summer hours so although Joe was off it was a school day .
4 The host software installs in seconds so that FastPort is up and running on your Unix LAN in minutes .
5 Developers of electric vehicles around the world would like to see some small concessions granted in the legislations so that ULEVs are not unduly penalised .
6 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 .
7 implies z = By = BAx , so that BA is the matrix converting x into z .
8 Mellanby arrived in time to be heard , and succeeded in changing the decision so that Florey was appointed .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 However , it is used elsewhere for parliamentary elections only in Malta , Tasmania and Australia ( for the Senate ) , so that Ireland is obviously the most accessible and relevant source of evidence about its operation .
13 Both marriages were childless ; so that Elizabeth was the last direct descendant of William Shakespeare .
14 The Cross and the Centaur are now high in the south , so that Achernar is low down ; Scorpius has come into view .
15 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 .
16 By the 1850s the tradition had declined , so that Baudelaire was seeking to give new life to a decayed literary genre .
17 Air traffic has doubled in the last 10 years so that Singapore is now served by 57 airlines , linking it to 110 cities in 54 countries .
18 From this figure we see that the optimal solution of AP is not a tour so that AP is not TSP .
19 Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) .
20 His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants .
21 The town had Switzerland 's first railway tunnel , driven deep under the ridge beneath the Stein ruins ( a considerable engineering feat in those days ) and this has been widened to take the road as well , so that Baden is virtually free of through traffic .
22 And , er , you know , that 's just , so that Mr is aware that we 're trying to do what John Major agreed at Rio .
23 He took a slight step forward and , taking his friend 's chin in his hand , lifted his face so that Ludovico was forced to look up into his eyes .
24 It was advice Erika took seriously , distancing herself from Fritz as much as possible and adroitly using Rosa as a shield so that Fritz was forever baulked in his obscure desires .
25 Swayne wore rust-coloured trousers and a matching pullover , his movements were erratic , rapid yet precise , so that Wycliffe was reminded of a little red monkey .
26 Though he was always in evidence it was invariably Madame who did all the talking , giving orders , fussing around clients , so that Paula was never quite certain what his role was .
27 But the Bemba language translator used the word ukubstanduka , which means ‘ to boycott them ’ , so that Kaunda was quoted in Bemba as saying that Zambians should shun or have nothing to do with Britons in Zambia .
28 But even if he denied involvement , no one would believe that he had not arranged matters so that Sipotai was killed .
29 So much so that Newcastle are now ready to pay a lot of money for a striker , ‘ a Newcastle type ’ in Keegan 's words , as a replacement .
30 The resolving power of an electrostatic analyzer is related to the electron energy , so that ΔE/E is effectively constant .
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