Example sentences of "so [conj] [indef pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So although one would seek to eradicate any sense of prejudice against employing mentally handicapped people , there is no justification for positive prejudice on behalf of the mentally handicapped . |
| 2 | As the discipline develops , the amalgamation of groups of practitioners having particular issues as central becomes clearer , so that one might even talk of specific ‘ schools ’ within the discipline . |
| 3 | In designing artificial defences the structures are made sufficiently strong to resist this type of wave , so that one might , therefore , expect closely jointed rocks to be susceptible to damage by clapotis as such rocks are the nearest approach to natural walls . |
| 4 | You have no idea of how much coal is needed to keep a small grate going so that one might cook . ’ |
| 5 | In practice , however , these conditions are met on very rare occasions so that one might conclude that spatial differences in economic potential are unlikely ever to be equalised . |
| 6 | Also field independence increases with age , so that one would tend to predict better learning with grammatical approaches with older people . |
| 7 | So that one would come out then at erm just over a hundred pounds . |
| 8 | The secret is to be in touch with one 's own life experience so that one may value and appreciate the life experience of the other members of the group . |
| 9 | So that one 'll be six six over ten . |
| 10 | So that one will be s that 'll be seventy four , so in nineteen |
| 11 | Shamanism , he explained patiently for the three idiot Brits , was a primitive practice of self-denial so that one could travel in the land of the dead and return unscathed . |
| 12 | The Fen country around Coton was very flat , with water-filled dykes instead of hedges , and few trees , so that one could see long distances without the view being obstructed — ‘ right to the horizon , ’ Cheryl reported excitedly to her mummy in one of her letters home . |
| 13 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 14 | Burns triumphantly hijacks this image by extending the golden substance to the borders of manhood — ‘ a man 's a man for a ’ that' , so that one could properly ask for ‘ one man , one vote ’ . |
| 15 | There were fruit trees amongst the flowers , here a pear tree , there a currant bush , so that one could either smell a rose , crush a verbena , or eat a fruit ; there were borders of box , but also of sorrel and chibol ; and the stiff battalion of leeks , shallots , and garlic , the delicate pale-green foliage of the carrot , the aggressive steel-grey leaves of the artichokes , the rows of lettuce which always ran to seed too quickly . |
| 16 | For that matter , a computer catalogue could relate different demands together , so that one could find out what was in the collection in tape-slide format on the emigration of Cornish tin-miners to southern Wisconsin in the nineteenth century , suitable for advanced students in the sixth form ( ages 17–18 ) . |
| 17 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 18 | There was no distraction other than a poignant roll of rags in which a baglady scuffled , and snow fell so that one could almost smell the cold . |
| 19 | Just by glancing at the first chapter of the book you feel a sort of ‘ zing ’ that brings them together , so much so that one could never rate one higher than the other . |
| 20 | Erm and er it was er it was a ramp basically , er up here , so that one could run straight off that ramp , onto this flat truck . |
| 21 | The effect of the Famine in 1921–2 was far more crippling in the Volga provinces than in Tambov guberniia , so that one can argue either way as to whether it had a stimulating or depressing effect on the mettle of the Tambov Greens ; certainly in Samara and Saratov its vehemence blew out all hope of resistance . |
| 22 | For instance , the whole episode of the homosexual 's gingerly desperate ‘ coming out ’ in a hostile society is achieved in a genuinely moving manner , so that one can easily forgive the hesitancies and lack of narrative drive that is sometimes apparent elsewhere . |
| 23 | 2 oranges ( one to eat , one for when children say : ‘ What happened in an orangery ? ’ so that one can say ; ‘ They grew oranges — oh , look here 's one ! , taking it from a Greek statue 's ear ) |
| 24 | In the case of the ‘ ordinary ’ person it may just be pleasant to record what has happened each day so that one can at some time in the future spend a nostalgic hour looking back on times past . |
| 25 | This may be due to financial restrictions on travel but also because of the prevalence today of nationwide state societies in even ‘ primitive ’ areas so that one can no longer study ‘ simple ’ societies in isolation . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't you also think that if one meets someone in such a way — I mean , so weak and defenceless — something makes one surrender completely , so that one can not imagine ever being able to desert such a person ? ’ |
| 27 | Testing machines now exist which have vice-like grips , called ‘ friction grips ’ , so that one can take an ordinary bar of metal , cut off a short length , and break it in tension . |
| 28 | Thus the bits will fit together after fracture so that one can often glue a broken vase together quite plausibly . |
| 29 | Having no engine , gliders are delightfully silent , except for a slight noise from the wind so that one can hear the structure very well . |
| 30 | A small extract from the hierarchy is shown here so that one can see the path from the root of the hierarchy to each of the words in Figure 6 |