Example sentences of "so [conj] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her
2 So that even if a proprietor or advertiser does not exert undue pressure , there are other forces that impinge on the ‘ freedom ’ of an editor and a newspaper .
3 Here it is argued that jurisdiction is conditional on its proper exercise so that even if a tribunal is entitled to enter into the enquiry , it can lose its power by the way that power is used .
4 Teaching is a purposive activity , so that even though the teacher or school may not formulate aims consciously they will be implicit in the teaching , and will influence the course of the student 's education .
5 As some people join , others leave so that even though the total number of unemployed may have remained unchanged from one month to the next , the composition of that unemployment may have changed considerably .
6 — the spelling of English was more or less fixed several hundred years ago ; but the pronunciation keeps changing , so that even where a letter once corresponded more or less to a sound , now it may not ;
7 That quality is retained throughout a rev range that goes up to and beyond 6500rpm so that even when the electronic engine speed limiter cuts in , the VR6 sounds subdued and untroubled .
8 An acute shortage of cotton had already reduced the civil hospitals to using bandages made of paper , and it was hardly surprising that there was also a human shortage in the country , so that soon after the Somme conscription of labour was decreed for the ages of seventeen to sixty .
9 nicking them and capture there pay slips and you get it , you get a little brass plaque on it saying captured by so and so and the date , cos obviously they get fined for loosing it and all that sort of stuff
10 It is not that we are afraid to do so but simply that the occasion never really arises .
11 They 've promised to do so as soon as a new constitution has been written , but western diplomats say that could take up to two years .
12 Of course a seaplane has no brakes , so as soon as the engine was going we were off !
13 And it 's not soluble , so as soon as the water heats up , it comes out .
14 They did n't often have a chance to leave the pub together , but this afternoon she was determined to have a family outing , so as soon as the dinner-things were washed up , they had come for a walk to the Island Gardens .
15 So as soon as the farmer 's back was turned he slipped a shilling into the old boy 's palm — six pints o' beer at that time o' day' — and said to him : just yew have a go at it now , bo' . ’
16 Despite this stance and the pressure from the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd to respond positively to de Klerk 's announcement , however , EC Foreign Ministers decided in Brussels on Feb. 4 not to ease sanctions until " legislative action was taken " in South Africa , apparently meaning that they would do so as soon as the legislation was tabled .
17 She also wanted a place to sit and enjoy the warmth of the Aga , so as well as a pine table and chair for meals , there is also a homely rocking chair .
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