Example sentences of "so [vb -s] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peasant economy provides a reserve of cheap labour for capitalism and so contributes to capital accumulation . |
| 2 | There was general unemployment in the country which in turn affected the attendance of audiences so offers of work were dwindling . |
| 3 | It is clear that an element of contrast is intended , with a meaning something like " in writing Othello , Shakespeare becomes an exception , and so stands in contrast to other writers ' . |
| 4 | So smothers in blood the burning |
| 5 | So smothers in blood and burning |
| 6 | So notices for insurance premia arrive at Trivandrum in South India , say , printed only in Hindi , which no-one in the area can decipher . |
| 7 | In winter , the aphid lays its eggs only on the spindle bush in hedgerows in the UK ; so counts of eggs on these bushes enables Professor Michael Way at Imperial College to predict how prevalent the aphids will be in the summer . |
| 8 | In France the Directive has not been implemented in order to further nature conservation — that it has done so results by default rather than by design . |
| 9 | Once such an island has become permanent , longshore drift takes place along the seaward side , and so leads to modification and complication of the initially simple form . |
| 10 | The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people . |
| 11 | A trail marked with simple stone arches every half mile or so leads to Las Ruinas on top of each , but it 's easy to lose yourself in the maze of secondary trails which weave between the small fields . |
| 12 | So increases in state spending were largely offset by corresponding reductions by taxpayers . |
| 13 | It is run by a charitable trust and so relies on grants and donations for its survival . |
| 14 | So changes in attitudes are also needed and given that real interests are often involved — the profitability of agriculture , the rights of private property , the defence of national scenic assets — these changes will be difficult to engineer . |
| 15 | Such local compensation , however , can not occur at the small scale because the lithosphere has a finite strength and so changes in load result in regional isostatic adjustments over a greater area than that actually affected by the change in load ( Fig. 4.7(B) ) . |
| 16 | Example 4:11 Rent review machinery ; notice , counternotice reference to arbitration ( 1 ) the landlord may serve upon the tenant not earlier than one year before the review date in question a notice ( " a Review Notice " ) calling for a review of the rent ( 2 ) if the landlord serves a Review Notice then the rent payable with effect from the review date to which it relates shall be : ( a ) such sum as may be specified in the Review Notice or ( b ) the higher of the rent payable immediately before that review date and the Market Rent if ( but only if ) the tenant so elects by counternotice in writing served on the landlord not later than two months ( time being of essence ) after the service of a Review Notice ( 3 ) if the tenant serves a counternotice the Market Rent shall be determined in default of agreement within two months after the service of the counternotice by arbitration . |
| 17 | Example 4:12 Rent review machinery ; no notice ; determination by expert ( 1 ) if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by an independent surveyor acting as an expert ( 2 ) the independent surveyor shall ( a ) be appointed in default of agreement by the President ( b ) give the landlord and the tenant an opportunity to make representations to him and to reply to each other 's representations ( but shall not be bound by them ) ( c ) have power to determine how the costs of the reference shall be borne ( d ) publish his decision within two months of his appointment ( 3 ) if the independent surveyor dies delays or becomes unwilling or incapable of acting or if for any reason the President thinks fit he may discharge the independent surveyor and appoint another in his place and may repeat this procedure as often as necessary Example 4:13 Landlord 's option to select method of resolving disputes if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market Rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by arbitration or ( if the landlord so elects by notice in writing given not later than one month before the relevant review date time being of the essence ) by an independent surveyor acting as an expert |
| 18 | What with that and the dried blood , his wife refuses to eat them , so berries for eating are grown separately . |
| 19 | Later , when E.L.T. Mesens offered them his fabulous collection , which included a hundred or so works by Magritte , thirty by Max Ernst and twenty Dalís , asking only that the exhibition areas should bear his name , the directors were equally negative . |