Example sentences of "so [det] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 The hour was late , the night was cold , the district was shabby , the coffee bar was an accepted place of trade , so neither speculation was unreasonable .
2 Each region has its own style of dancing , so each dance is different .
3 As the service progressed , so each candle was extinguished until one solitary candle , the sign of Christ , was left , a highly charged moment of pure theatre .
4 The nature of the impairment of the system might be different for every patient , so each patient is unique ; yet all the impairments shown by all the patients are interpreted with reference to a single theory of the language processing system .
5 It is planned that a Christmas Fayre will take place on the day so each area is asked to produce a stall .
6 It is planned that a Christmas Fayre will take place on the day so each area is asked to produce a stall .
7 On the other hand , it has already been shown that the tawny owl produces higher levels of modification than other species ( Raczynski & Ruprecht , 1974 ; Lowe , 1980 ) , so that caution is needed before generalizing too far on what owls do or do not do .
8 The plan aims to pull together all the aid programmes being run around the world so that work is not duplicated .
9 Started automatically , they free the terminal for other uses ( e.g. compiling , editing ) , so that work is not held up and you can still use LIFESPAN interactively while they take place .
10 Moreover , in contrast to much of Buxtehude , the spaces are occupied for most of the day so that space is not freed for other uses , such as children 's play or adults ' talk .
11 Equally important is its decrease in concentration in the evening , which relaxes the body so that sleep is more easy to achieve .
12 The Director and Commissioners regularly visit parishes and arrange choir festivals , so that help is given ‘ in the field ’ .
13 In Japan superiors are expected to make their subordinates accept the practice of groupism so that trust is constituted which transcends particularlisms , binding each person to the universal love of the enterprise .
14 We therefore suggest that bleomycin cleavage is , at least in part , determined by some structural feature of the dinucleotide step so that cutting is facilitated by regions of alternating purines and pyrimidines .
15 Where private costs of production are below social costs , an indirect tax could be imposed , or increased , so that price is raised to reflect the true social costs of production .
16 The non-response is likely to be non-random so that bias is introduced ; a further complication is that the desired respondent may pass the form to someone he or she thinks is more interested .
17 The fishhouse ( an early dream ) went up in 1977 , and most of my pennies went on the building , so that staging was designed around a 48″ tank size .
18 In P1/T4 – = 3 , as expected , and there is no upper bound so that P1/T4 is optimal for all θ = 3 .
19 We will ensure that every pupil has a National Record of Achievement so that progress is properly documented and shared between parents and schools .
20 The ground was waterlogged , necessitating constant pumping , so that progress was very slow ; but by April 1874 the job was considered done .
21 While ( 9 ) does imply that he actually swam across the lake on several occasions , all that it in fact expresses is the past existence of the ability to swim , so that swimming is thought of as a potential event and not as an actualization .
22 Patterson had arranged for the solicitors in Bloomsbury to ring him immediately the jiffy bag arrived , so that end was covered and I was pretty sure that 's where the Airborne messenger was heading without further interruptions .
23 It is highly addictive , comparably so to heroin or cocaine according to the US Surgeon General , and the health risks are long-term ones , so that starting is easier and quitting is more difficult .
24 Manufacturers gain through having their product demonstrated , or even through having it present in a store ( or else they would be unwilling to pay ‘ slotting allowances ’ to supermarkets ) , so that demand is not exogenous to retailing .
25 We must increase demand for British goods by adjusting the exchange rate so that demand is channelled to British goods through the price mechanism , making our goods and exports more attractive and cheaper and imports dearer .
26 Heat flows from regions of high temperature to regions of low temperature , so that heat is either flowing from the continents to the oceans , or from the oceans into the continents .
27 The period immediately following the death of Raedwald among the eastern Angles was one of internal strife between Raedwald 's son and successor , Eorpwald , and his half-brother , Sigeberht ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , who was driven into exile in Gaul , and probably also one of tension between pagan and Christian factions as the kingdom lapsed further into paganism under Eorpwald ( HE 11 , 15 ) , so that Eorpwald was not able to maintain the influence that had been Raedwald 's .
28 THis is because they contain special matting agents , which cause the varnishes to dry with an irregular surface , so that light is reflected at random angles .
29 There is no power of arrest under the section , so that arrest is available only where the general arrest conditions of PACE are satisfied , or the disrupters are committing some other arrestable offence .
30 Assuming that the school had not confirmed its booking , so that rescheduling was still a possibility , it might depend on , for example , whether there was any other suitable time during the year for the trip to take place .
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