Example sentences of "so [conj] [art] mass of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 2 | In the Leisure Society the employed are an elite of highly educated and skilled professionals who work full-time , but the wealth created by the equipment they have designed and operate is dispersed rather widely so that the mass of the population are able to live reasonably well off the products of the automated machinery cared for by the core elite . |
| 3 | they had to be thus dispersed , not only to guard every possible French invasion route , but also so that the mass of men and horses did not strip any one locality of food and gazing . |
| 4 | Under certain conditions the blow out may not become stabilised , so that the mass of sand migrates slowly in the direction of the resultant of onshore winds with trailing arms of partly vegetated sand on either side of the original blow out . |
| 5 | The lithosphere possesses a certain degree of rigidity so that the mass of any load ( such as an ice sheet ) placed on it is supported over a greater area than that covered by the load itself . |
| 6 | The UCD [ Union of the Democratic Centre under the leadership of Adolfo Suárez ] government consented to things which were not totally justified but which were necessary so that the mass of the workers could see that the country had changed and that dialogue was beginning . |