Example sentences of "so [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So presumably the water acts as a coolant ? ’
2 They make a couple of mistakes , the most regrettable being an abominable version of ‘ Ghost Town ’ , but get it so right the rest of the time it 's easy to forgive them .
3 So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady .
4 Alternatively the mother may not offer the food quickly enough and so eventually the child loses concentration and interest .
5 Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped .
6 Since the progress zone 's existence is dependent on a signal from the ridge , removal of the ridge results in the disappearance of the progress zone and so effectively the clock in the cells is stopped permanently .
7 Major Burrows had dealt with the matter so effectively the father did not need to administer any further punishment .
8 This guide deals only with the northern fringe of high country lying to the north of the watershed and thus within Canton Berne , so confusingly the book title is more administrative than topographical .
9 His pride of heart and condition may again take place and a man who could in so little a space first love me , then hate , then banish me his house and now send for me again in such affectionate terms may still waver , may still deceive thee .
10 A letter of 1871 gives a vivid sense of the convictions which impelled her throughout her life : ‘ As I have grown older the terrible sufferings of women of my own class for want of good elementary training have more than ever intensified my earnest desire to lighten ever so little the misery of women brought up ‘ to be married and taken care of ’ and left alone in the world destitute .
11 Hard to remember , between readings , that Brideshead and Nineteen Eighty-Four are funny books : one recalls so vividly the gravity of their themes , so little the gaiety of their prose , that a rereading can easily surprise .
12 The causes he pursued so vigorously no doubt satisfied some deep , emotional void .
13 Nowhere in the world did the railway station represent so powerfully the combination of an intrusive technical power together with the search for national identity as in Latin America .
14 Slowly , ever so slowly the angle eases as the distance from the ice-screw increases and at last I can place another .
15 While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it .
16 ‘ Everything 's very strange down here , so perhaps a mouse can talk . ’
17 So perhaps a lot of the times but I would have maybe suggested that , that we could have done and presented that as part of the package .
18 Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ?
19 So perhaps an astronaut who fell into a black hole would be able to make money at roulette by remembering where the ball went before he placed his bet .
20 Whatever the case , the dunnock seems tolerant of colour variation in its eggs , so perhaps the cuckoo has no particular need to mimic them .
21 ‘ Clare has a copy of the paper now , and I have brought in a couple of extra copies ; so perhaps the dinosaur people , at least , might like to have a look at it and see what they think .
22 So , and the person who 's speaking decides not to go on , so perhaps the conversation has stopped .
23 Well that 's what I 'm saying , so perhaps the kid was right in what he said .
24 If the rebel helots at Ithome were still maintaining their siege ( 465–455 are the dates Thucydides implies ) this use of manpower was reckless indeed ; so perhaps the text is wrong and the Ithome dates are really 465–460 .
25 The market is less active , people are less likely to take risks with things they know nothing of in the hope of growth so perhaps the recession has affected the USM more severely than people have given credit for .
26 Possibly it could have led to gastric ulcers and an early coronary , so perhaps the change was a blessing in disguise ?
27 However , in 1957 some bonds were redeemed by the Club at less than par , so perhaps the President was successful after all , possibly by inviting bondholders themselves to suggest a lower than par price .
28 Albinos of any animal ( even humans ) have poor vision in strong light , so perhaps the Kigoi relies on the hand that feeds it because it is beaten to the foraging by normally-pigmented pondmates .
29 So perhaps the laibon 's pebbles , worn smooth by his hands and his predecessors , right back to the great Mbatian , had told him .
30 And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait .
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