Example sentences of "[is] so [conj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 2 | The reason , of course , is so that when the strap is being used the dye wo n't bleed onto the player 's clothes — which is usually the case with straps dyed on both sides . |
| 3 | This is so that when the end of the pattern is reached and the design is read again from the bottom , the uneven top block added to the uneven bottom block make an even number of rows . |
| 4 | The point of doing all this pre-planning is so that when you come to align columns across the page or to set text next to pictures everything snaps together neatly . |
| 5 | Can you confirm that this is so and whether the accounts would then have to carry some sort of explanatory note to this effect ? |
| 6 | ‘ It 's so that if somebody drops a bloody great boulder on yer nut it 'll bounce off |
| 7 | They say that 's so that if there 's an accident |