Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] of [noun] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each group in the past has operated with generally accepted lines of demarcation so that fault-finding and repair of a particular machine may involve several trade groups and take some considerable time while the fault is correctly identified and the appropriate craftsworker brought to the machine . |
| 2 | There are three distinct types of clinical challenge for which the polymerase chain reaction is indispensable : ( 1 ) Detecting vanishingly small amounts of DNA so as not to miss even the most cryptic infection and permit analysis of single cells or single sperm and of partially degraded samples . |
| 3 | The way to the front door was of long , unevenly sunken slabs of concrete so that the path was little more than a series of stepping stones . |
| 4 | For navigation in the hyper-medium , it is important to be able to identify uniquely individual units of text so that cross-references can be resolved . |
| 5 | The most general account of vegetation so far published is that of Wilmott ( 1945 ) for Uig , but that does not of course use the modern methods for vegetation description . |
| 6 | From the twentieth century point of view it can be appreciated that naturally occurring compounds contain what , from the point of view of theoretical chemistry , is an arbitrary and theoretically uninteresting mixture of isotopes so that , as F. Soddy remarked , the painstaking endeavour of the nineteenth century chemists ‘ appears as of as little interest and significance as the determination of the average weight of a collection of bottles , some of them full and some of them more or less empty ’ . |