Example sentences of "the [noun] of [noun sg] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swings of attitude so clear in the historical analysis of deafness had once again created a climate of opinion where the predominance of one methodology could be questioned . |
| 2 | ( ii ) Awareness of the availability of information and of the complex nature of communication … ( iii ) Help … to break down the complexity of documentation so that broad categories and patterns can be observed . |
| 3 | They must ascertain the child 's wishes with regard to the provision of accommodation so far as this is reasonably practicable and consistent with his welfare ( s20(6) ) . |
| 4 | Although such an incestuous fixation usually means genital inhibition for the individual in adult life , resulting either in perversion or neurosis or both and invariably in some unhappiness , incest in itself does not threaten the foundations of culture so much as the consequent erotic and aggressive antagonism to which it gives rise . |
| 5 | Are the foundations of faith so shaky that nothing of any weight can be built on them ? |
| 6 | In the illustrations of projection so far I have suggested that broadly speaking there are two kinds : ( 1 ) where the participants are allowed to be passive observers becoming more actively engaged as and when they wish , and ( 2 ) where from the beginning the participants are required to do something . |
| 7 | The framework of support so established might well lead to a partnership between schools and LEAs which gives more effective support to those working within the institution . |
| 8 | They 've got very low conducting 's the opposite of resistance so the good conductors |
| 9 | Assure you , my good liege , I hold my duty as I hold my soul , Both to my God and to my gracious King ; And I do think , or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do , that I have found The very cause of Hamlet 's lunacy … |
| 10 | However , they felt it important that consumers should retain the freedom of choice so that those who found the extra cost of electrical ‘ refined heat ’ worthwhile because of its cleanliness and convenience were free to pay for it . |
| 11 | The market is less active , people are less likely to take risks with things they know nothing of in the hope of growth so perhaps the recession has affected the USM more severely than people have given credit for . |
| 12 | With the kind of support so far received from SOED and SRC , the indications are that the learning and teaching of modern languages will become increasingly effective — especially for those children in need of support . |
| 13 | Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 14 | Earlier in his decision , however , he had posed the question , ‘ was the child 's life going to be so demonstrably awful that it should be condemned to die ; or was the kind of life so imponderable that it would be wrong to condemn her to die ? ’ |
| 15 | Moreover , this enforced withdrawal from social integration can quickly cause the kind of demoralization so often associated with old age . |
| 16 | Simon Kunz manages all the baffling Poor Tom stuff with conviction and , in his scenes with Gloucester , generates the kind of anguish so often missing elsewhere . |
| 17 | When successive instabilities have reduced the level of predictability so much that it is appropriate to describe a flow statistically , rather than in every detail , then one says that the flow is turbulent . |
| 18 | It would mean that British Gas would put a mileage rate on the transportation of gas so that regions such as Wales will suffer from higher gas prices , which will offset anything that we may do to achieve efficiency . |
| 19 | In its turn , this belief has led to ‘ geometrical paradoxes ’ , and is ‘ the principal occasion of all that nice and extreme subtility which renders the study of mathematics so difficult and tedious ’ . |
| 20 | That the Board be authorised to exercise the power contained in Article 134 of the Articles of Association so that , to the extent and manner determined by the Board , the holders of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company be permitted to elect to receive ordinary shares , credited as fully paid , instead of cash in respect of all or part of any interim or the final dividend relating to the year ending on 31 December 1993 , such authority to expire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 1994 . |
| 21 | On the other hand , many fringe bodies are located on the fringe exactly in order to distance them from the core of government so as to give them a degree of independence from public control . |
| 22 | Seldom has the passage of time so swiftly , effectively and comprehensively destroyed the intellectual foundations of the main plank of a party 's defence policy . |
| 23 | Held , dismissing the appeal ( Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle dissenting ) , that although the common law had previously only admitted recovery of money exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment had been made under a mistake of fact or under limited categories of compulsion , which did not apply to the payments by the building society , the nature of a demand for tax or similar impost on the citizen by the state , with the perceived economic and social consequences of non-payment stemming from the inequality of the parties ' respective positions , and the unjust enrichment falling on the state where the citizen paid an unlawful demand to avoid those consequences , warranted a reformulation of the law of restitution so as to recognise a prima facie right of recovery based solely on payment of money pursuant to an ultra vires demand by a public authority ; and that , accordingly , since the building society 's claim fell outside the statutory framework governing repayment of overpaid tax , it was entitled at common law to repayment of the sums from the dates of payments and to interest in respect thereof pursuant to section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 384H , 387D , F–G , 389B , 390F — 391C , E–F , 392E , 396C , 414B–C , F–G , 415E–F , 416A–B , 417B , 418A–C , E–F , 421D–F , G ) . |
| 24 | Certainly there appears to be some sense in restricting any changes in the law of incest so that it continues to be an offence for a parent or grandparent to have sexual relations with a child aged 16 or 17 , because children of that age are often dependent and living at home , and so the conditions for exploitation are still present at that age . |
| 25 | Furthermore , since they are not directives but guidelines they must be flexible enough to allow for teacher participation and the exercise of initiative so that teachers can follow their course in reference to the bearings provided . |
| 26 | A principal medium of transgressive reinscription is fantasy — but again , not the fantasy of transcendence so much as the inherently perverse , transgressive reordering of fantasy 's conventional opposite , the mundane . |
| 27 | The false sensation of unconditional acceptance may come , however , when the sufferers from addictive disease are under the influence of alcohol so that the state of mind produced by mood-altering substances or behaviour is indistinguishable from the unconditional acceptance that they seek . |
| 28 | Characteristic qualities of a step are likely to be retained because the type of music so decrees , although it will rarely be identical in its performance because it will have been refurbished . |
| 29 | So we , the answer is we do n't really know but it seems common sense to apply barrier precautions and to do everything you can to modify the type of surgery so that the chances of having an injury with a sharp instrument are reduced , and people have made some constructive proposals along these lines . |
| 30 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |