Example sentences of "and so " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACET is a church-based organisation whose primary concern is practical care rather than counselling , and so these areas are only covered if they are raised by our clients . |
| 2 | He was originally held in Safi Prison , where he developed diabetes in 1988 , but was then transferred to Marrakech where his family lives , and so could visit him regularly and provide him with the food necessary for his diabetic diet . |
| 3 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 4 | Its daring conception , ideal in the highest sense of the word , is based on the purest truth , and wrought out with the concentrated knowledge of a life , its colour is almost perfect , not one false or morbid hue in any part or line , and so modulated that every square inch of canvas is a perfect composition ; its drawing is as accurate as fearless ; the ship buoyant , bending , and full of motion ; its tones as true as they are wonderful ; and the whole picture dedicated to the most sublime of subjects and impressions … the power , majesty and deathfulness of the open , deep , illimitable sea . |
| 5 | Fénéon , like other excellent critics , was a valued friend of artists , and so he remained all his life even though he gave up writing criticism after a decade of working on the Revue blanche from 1893 to 1903 . |
| 6 | Paranoia imagines one , and so does pastiche . |
| 7 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 8 | And so it was that Ursula met Justin , the writer 's moody adolescent brother , and ran away with him . |
| 9 | Lermontov , for his part , was a character out of Byron , and so was Pechorin , the ‘ hero of our time ’ in Lermontov 's novel of 1839 , one of those people ‘ who are fated to attract all kinds of unusual things ’ . |
| 10 | True art , or the best art , has a dialogic structure , many voices , and so has the good society . |
| 11 | One of the things you will notice when watching the television is that close-ups are used very effectively , and so it is of vital importance that the actor has absolute control over his/her face and expression . |
| 12 | If you do want to portray an older figure , it would be preferable to try Hermione in The Winter 's Tale — she is a more fantastical character , without the added complications of historical authenticity , and so allows for greater flexibility of characterisation . |
| 13 | Years of scholarship and so many contentious performances mean that the character is now regarded as ‘ difficult ’ , when it can in fact benefit from the freshness and vitality of the natural actor , who will quickly find the comic qualities of the man as well as his serious side . |
| 14 | Arthur 's Miller 's plays such as All My Sons and Death of a Salesman are now regarded as virtual classics , and so are Tennessee William 's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire . |
| 15 | And so , ere Answer knows what Question would , |
| 16 | And so am I , whether I smoke or no . |
| 17 | Looked at all the usual things ; the cottages , the rectory and so on and , eventually ended up in the churchyard ; the one where Rupert Brooke is buried . |
| 18 | This is reflective speech ; the character seems rootless and so there is no definite accent or background indicated . |
| 19 | The transformations effected by the second Vatican Council of 1962–5 in liturgy , sacrament , scripture , and so on led to the accelerated decline of traditional rituals such as wakes and pilgrimages to local shrines . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the necessary link to warrant this second conclusion — a control group of catholics in a multi-denominational situation — was simply not available to Salters , and so the argument is void . |
| 21 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 22 | The point about the big glass , he wrote , is that there is no right way up and so there is no upside down . |
| 23 | And so on . |
| 24 | A girl of twelve turned her face to the wall , refused all nourishment , and so passed away . |
| 25 | And so on . |
| 26 | And so on . |
| 27 | And so on . |
| 28 | And gives movement to the arms of the scissors and so back through the sieves to the chariot and the moulds . |
| 29 | And so on . |
| 30 | Original gravity can be roughly translated into alcoholic strength as follows : a 1036 beer has approximately 3.6 per cent alcohol , a 1050 beer has 5 per cent alcohol and so on . |