Example sentences of "so [adv] the [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 | Alternatively the mother may not offer the food quickly enough and so eventually the child loses concentration and interest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Major Burrows had dealt with the matter so effectively the father did not need to administer any further punishment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Slowly , ever so slowly the angle eases as the distance from the ice-screw increases and at last I can place another . |
| 12 | Whatever the case , the dunnock seems tolerant of colour variation in its eggs , so perhaps the cuckoo has no particular need to mimic them . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | So , and the person who 's speaking decides not to go on , so perhaps the conversation has stopped . |
| 15 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , so perhaps the kid was right in what he said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Possibly it could have led to gastric ulcers and an early coronary , so perhaps the change was a blessing in disguise ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So perhaps the laibon 's pebbles , worn smooth by his hands and his predecessors , right back to the great Mbatian , had told him . |
| 22 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 23 | There are not constant outcries against the police , courts and prisons , so perhaps the Code works in a sufficiently balanced way , so as to blend at least reasonably well with the democracy so fervently fought for in Mexico 's history . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's the month of May now , ’ she said to herself , ‘ so perhaps the Hare wo n't be as mad as he was in March . ’ |
| 25 | So perhaps the luxury of a crisp autumn day would provide more suitable conditions for the complete ridge traverse if snow and ice make you nervous . |
| 26 | So perhaps the house |
| 27 | So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) . |
| 28 | And , as had been so memorably the case with the Punjab , the proof of the pudding was found to be in the eating . |
| 29 | She confirms that : ‘ It is n't so much the law as what the shops will stock . |
| 30 | Co-curators David W. Penney , Associate Curator , Department of African , Oceanic and New World Cultures , at the Detroit Institute , and George P. Horse Capture , a member of the Cros Ventre tribe and formerly Curator of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center , tell us that ‘ art as a category did not exist in American Indian languages ’ , but their concern ‘ is not so much the issue of defining American Indian creations to fit a European definition of ‘ art ’ , but of redefining ‘ art ’ and consequently art history to include the artistic practices of American Indians , Africans , folk artists , and even the modern film industry , advertising and popular illustrations ’ . |