Example sentences of "and so [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was absolutely right ; shocked a minute after training , most chicks showed amnesia and so pecked the bead when they were tested some hours later ; delay the shock to ten minutes after training and most chicks avoided it subsequently . |
| 2 | The 1921 Act revoked this unworkable requirement and so condoned the concept of test auditing and , in more recent times , the adoption of a systems-based audit . |
| 3 | They had no faith in Smith and so rejected the agreement he made . |
| 4 | Christine reached the hut from the road by a steep track through the scrub and so avoided the house . |
| 5 | Ian got in earlier than any of the clerics and so avoided the business of greetings . |
| 6 | Accepting this logic , President Bush last year argued that China had ended martial law , and so deserved a renewal . |
| 7 | The first , I believe , is a case where the Court guessed , but guessed incorrectly , at the parliamentary intention and so construed the Act in a way which accomplished a most desirable social purpose but which nevertheless contradicted the clear and unequivocal terms in which it was expressed . |
| 8 | We postulated that hypothermia may have reduced formation of the toxic reactive intermediates produced by metabolism of paracetamol , and so prevented the development of hepatitis in this high risk case . |
| 9 | The first drugs which could be relied on to reduce the dangerously high arterial pressure which precedes strokes and heart failure were substances which blocked the actions of acetylcholine at these ganglia , and so prevented the passage of nervous messages which put up the blood pressure . |
| 10 | I should be sorry if the debate on the Bill were to be unnecessarily prolonged and so prevented the House from debating the Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill that hon. Members are waiting to discuss . |
| 11 | Essentially , the cold war preserved American power structures and so prevented the emergence of a new set of political institutions which could regulate the post-Fordist global economy , and which could manage and respond to the dramatic changes in the balance of the world economy as a result of the introduction of new methods of production , especially in Japan and Western Europe , based on the intensive use of information technologies . |
| 12 | In this case , ITF officials blacked a ship with the result that lock keepers , in breach of their contract with port authorities at Hull , refused to operate gates and so prevented the ship from sailing . |
| 13 | Up to now she had typed only audio tapes for Canon Wheeler and so had no experience of his handwriting . |
| 14 | Looking at the menu on the wall I realised how hungry I was , yet I had no means of buying anything to eat ; I had no money and so had no idea of where my next meal would be coming from . |
| 15 | He had worked the same hours , on the same farm for nine years but he was paid as a casual labourer , and so had no right to a pension , to notice pay — not even to the right of appeal . |
| 16 | She had never had a real boyfriend before and so had no yardstick by which to compare Charles 's behaviour . |
| 17 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine . |
| 18 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine . |
| 19 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 20 | The bales knocked together again , but the fall from the roof-breach had dwindled , and so had the rush from the windows . |
| 21 | The disturbance had slowed them , and so had the loss of two workers . |
| 22 | Legend has it that Oliver Cromwell on his way to lay siege to Middleton Hall during the Civil War found the old packhorse bridge too narrow for his cannons and wagons and so had the bridge widened . |
| 23 | But Dot had changed and so had the skirt and cardigan . |
| 24 | The Butterley Company found that men whose wives could not find work were less likely to stay at Ollerton , and so planned the building of factories in the village which would ensure both that men were not lost and that family incomes could be supplemented . |
| 25 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 26 | To go out well-dressed , he checked his appearance in the mirror , and so draped the toga on his body that a graceful knot gathered the folds , arranging them not randomly but with care , so that the sinus was composed to flow down the side , defining its outline . |
| 27 | I was two hours too early for dinner and so spent the interval in a cloud of steam with my wet clothes draped around the fire . |
| 28 | Those placed in an ‘ express ’ stream had even less reason for preserving a broad curriculum : like myself and my contemporaries in Cardiff High School they rattled along to their first public examination ( O level after 1951 ) at the age of fifteen , and so secured the privilege of early entry — together with the possibility of some extra time — in the sixth form . |
| 29 | Having regard to the true construction of section 9 of the Act , the House concluded that the refusal of the council to make a refund was not in accordance with the statutory intention and so affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 593 allowing the taxpayers ' claim for judicial review of the decision . |
| 30 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |