Example sentences of "so [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This winter has been relatively mild and frost free , so birds like lapwing and golden plover have delayed their departure south to the farms and coastal areas of Scotland and England , and many are still finding enough food in Shetland . |
| 2 | As the casualty lists mounted , so signs of strain began to appear within the higher commands on both sides , almost simultaneously . |
| 3 | Just as essences or forms give rise to those properties , so definitions of those forms , when used as premisses , give rise to conclusions about those properties . |
| 4 | Just as Britain and France had fought repeatedly to prevent German competition from developing , so Germany in its turn tried to restrict Polish economic growth and rivalry . |
| 5 | You 're not going to be able to pick this up very easily , so fingers on buzzers and no conferring . |
| 6 | The parents need to recognize the link between how they try to manage the behaviour and the occurrence of the behaviour , so reactions like smacking , shouting , nagging , sulking , giving in , or ignoring need to be identified . |
| 7 | Cells have definite lines of descent and these lines are branching , so words like second cousin can be used of cells in a body without apology . ) |
| 8 | The possibility of confusion is very great ; for just as Eleanor of Castile landed at Acre in 1270 , accompanying Edward on the seventh crusade , so Eleanor of Aquitaine had landed there 120 years before , accompanying her husband ( that is , her first , Louis VII of France ) on his crusade — which is presumably what Pound means by ‘ Acre , again ’ . |
| 9 | I have n't been brave enough to write to a publication of any sort before , but it is one of my favourite pieces of music , and this is the greatest performance I 've ever heard ( and I mean of anything ) , so thanks for the opportunity . |
| 10 | Most men like to wash their hair every day so shampoos like Vidal Sassoon 's Wash and Go are always a popular choice . |
| 11 | But Indonesia , in common with Vesuvius and almost all volcanic areas in the world , is located in the middle of an intensely active seismic zone , so earthquakes in the area were far from uncommon , and the local people did not attach much special significance to this latest bout of tremors . |
| 12 | As imperial portraits attracted faith , so images of emperors who had betrayed their subjects ' trust were treated with contempt . |
| 13 | As Aldhelm 's blood was blackening on the stone , so fragments of lichen and stone-dust were embedded in Aldhelm 's wounds . |
| 14 | Many children live a long way from their grandparents , so relationships with non-related older people need to be encouraged . |
| 15 | Transport of stone was difficult and costly so areas with available stone — mainly the north and south-west of the country — used this freely , while others like East Anglia and Cheshire , built in timber and brick . |
| 16 | A prospective employer 's interest will be focused on the last ten years approximately , so experiences before that can be telescoped into a short sentence or two . |
| 17 | An enterprising firm of potters anywhere in the Province could supply batches of their wares , so crates of vessels arriving at the quartermasters ' stores could have come from any available source . |
| 18 | The particular provisions of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 in the consideration of which my hon. Friend played such a distinguished part do not come into force until next month , so directors of planning will not yet have had the benefit of the provisions . |
| 19 | When the masses enter politics , they are unskilled in accommodation and compromise , so periods of unusually high popular mobilization into democratic politics may endanger elite agreements on the rules of the game . |
| 20 | It is even there in much sociology which , so proponents of this view would claim , is implicitly racist in treating ethnic minorities as the deviants from the British norm . |
| 21 | The company sells some 90% of its products overseas , so revenues in sterling terms grew due to the weakness of the pound . |
| 22 | Thirdly , just as cross-linguistic comparisons can reveal general functions of language by contrasts between what is encoded in one language and not in another , so comparisons across stages of acquisition can be revealing in the same way ( Ochs , 1979a ) . |
| 23 | - Housing allocation policies have no place for men once a family has broken up , so hostels for the homeless become their place of first and last resort . |
| 24 | ‘ I was at school in those days , so things like that were n't discussed in front of me . ’ |
| 25 | The best way to counter trespass is to put up waymarks , so rights of way should be properly signposted , not just marked at the edge of the road . |
| 26 | The plants from countries with hot dry summers tend to put their roots down very deeply into the soil , especially if they are growing in rocky soil on exposed " hillsides , so containers with as much depth as possible are advisable . |
| 27 | The one position I had trouble with was keeper , were I could n't find anyone as truly awful as the outfield players , so suggestions for the keeper are welcome . |
| 28 | The one position I had trouble with was keeper , were I could n't find anyone as truly awful as the outfield players , so suggestions for the keeper are welcome . |
| 29 | As he continues with the prayer that those who receive the sacrament may " be fulfilled with all hevenly benediction and grace through Jesus Christ " , so Rolle in The Form of Living now turns to a description of the interior awareness of this fulfilment . |
| 30 | Firstly , you will probably be spending more time at home , so items like heating and lighting are liable to be costlier . |