Example sentences of "and so [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | seawards , and so they picture him |
| 2 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 3 | And so they become willing aiders rather than initiators . |
| 4 | So it 's not surprising they draw the racist conclusions — the blacks are getting jobs , housing etc. at their expense ; and so they become fodder for the National Front . |
| 5 | Squash is one of these : there is nothing wrong with the game , but very few people warm up well before playing , and so they make a sudden demand on the body which imposes stress on the heart . |
| 6 | The rocking modes are locally antisymmetric , and so they combine to give four modes of a 1 , a 2 , b 1 , and b 2 symmetry . |
| 7 | And so they follow the pattern of Foucault 's less textually-oriented work . |
| 8 | A lot of them are studying other things besides Italian and so they take time off to prepare for exams . |
| 9 | In consequence , they tend to see a simple one-to-one relation between attitudes , interests , and group organisation , and so they take the interest group world as a given that arises " naturally " in a way that calls for no complicated explanation . |
| 10 | Roses and orchids are too obviously beautiful , and so they lack this remnant of grace : maybe , if there is any harmony left for us to discover , maybe we shall as soon apprehend it in dog shit or an old man 's spittle , sizzling on the grate . |
| 11 | They decided they wanted to make me look unusual , to make me look ‘ spacey ’ , and so they cut it all off . ’ |
| 12 | The Royal Bank saw no need ( indeed had no right ) to alter them and so they remain until today . |
| 13 | Reid and Hanrahan ( 1982 ) , in a review of twenty-eight studies between the years 1973 and 1981 , find that the objectives of the interventions were generally achieved , and so they conclude that ‘ intervention carried out by social workers can be effective ’ ( p. 333 ) . |
| 14 | This form of acquired dyslexia is sometimes called pure alexia or alexia without agraphia , the reason being that , as a rule , these patients have no impairment of writing or spelling , and so they contrast with patients having other kinds of acquired dyslexia , all of whom have had impaired writing and spelling as well as impaired reading . |
| 15 | When their prey species are inactive , cats may as well save energy , because they are unlikely to be successful in hunting , and so they rest and sleep for most of the day . |
| 16 | Trapped in lapis lazuli 's rigid cages , however , they are unable to react , and so they sit there absorbing light from the red wavelengths of the spectrum . |
| 17 | And so they set off . |
| 18 | Concerns about dehydration if the child refuses to drink from any other source keeps these mothers in a state of anxiety and so they capitulate to their child 's demands to continue breastfeeding . |
| 19 | I need a visa and have failed to obtain one , Rosita likewise , and so they put us behind bars like prisoners . |
| 20 | But sure enough , they got all these calls , people wanted them and so they put it out . |
| 21 | They thought that to do things by hand when a machine was available was waste of human resource , and so they put a lot of their energy into products that could be made by batch production . |
| 22 | The circumstances in which a break with the past and the need for a fresh start come about vary from country to country , but in almost every case in modern times countries have a Constitution for the very simple and elementary reason that they wanted , for some reason , to begin again and so they put down in writing the main outline , at least , of their proposed system of government . |
| 23 | They suffer from the drawback that warping can leave open gaps in the cladding ( waney-edged boards are particularly prone to this because of the way they are sawn ) , and so they tend to be used more on out-buildings than on house exteriors , except as feature panels . |
| 24 | The hottest parts of a liquid are also the least dense or ‘ lightest ’ and so they tend to rise upwards to float above the denser , cooler liquid . |
| 25 | However , they are not always offered study leave or proper in-service training to achieve these qualifications , and so they tend to use school hours to do their own work rather than concentrating on their students . |
| 26 | They are directed primarily at feminists , and so they tend to treat conscious and unconscious subjectivities as discursive artefacts , granting them no autonomous analysis . |
| 27 | And so they depart — on board ship — ( The two SPIES position themselves on either side of the PLAYER , and the three of them sway gently in unison , the motion of a boat ; and then the PLAYER detaches himself. ) — and they arrive — ( One SPY shades his eyes at the horizon. ) — and disembark — and present themselves before the English king- ( He wheels round . ) |
| 28 | Bright sunlight destroys chlorophyll which they are unable to replace fast enough , and so they suffer while other , more adaptable plants flourish . |
| 29 | And so they bark . |
| 30 | However , because thermosetting plastics consist essentially of an irregular three-dimensional network of molecules , something like glass , they have quite a low work of fracture — seldom more than 100 J/m 2 and usually much less — and so they behave mechanically in much the same way as glass does . |