Example sentences of "and so [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More difficult to determine is the extent to which aid has freed resources for consumption , and so done little to increase investment levels in the manner envisaged by Rostow or Chenery . |
| 2 | The aura is the radiant life-force surrounding all living and so called non-living substances of the Earth , such as water and rocks . |
| 3 | By its control of entry into the profession , it has maintained a shortage of doctors and so ensured high rewards for medical services . |
| 4 | We polluted Earth and so killed all the animals . |
| 5 | Near Exeter , the old Exeter to Crediton road had been doubled in width ( from nine and a half to twenty feet ) and so made necessary a new bridge over the Creedy . |
| 6 | It could reach both upwards and downwards to pluck vegetation from all directions on a vast scale , and so lost little time ( or energy ) moving about . |
| 7 | He travelled a lot in India at that time , talking to troops and meeting leaders , and so met many interesting people . |
| 8 | The European past , with its record of interaction between conflicting civilizations , religions , and cultures , lacked the unity and ‘ all-embracing certainty ’ of the Chinese and so presented historical problems of a kind the latter never encountered . |
| 9 | Or , to take it further , had he begun to have hopes for the remainder of the night , and so taken this means to get rid of the other man ? |
| 10 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 11 | Never mind the fact they were as comfortable as wearing two fibre-glass tubes filled with iron filings , and stank like an incontinent old sheep dog when wet , they were natural wool and so considered correct . |
| 12 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 13 | Whilst knitting I noticed how attractive the back of the work looked and so recreated this impression on the right side simply by using the negative image facility . |
| 14 | The transformation effected by industrialisation undermined the basis of the rural economy in West Ham and so established new contours of class relationships . |
| 15 | I hope that Opposition Members will use their influence with Labour-controlled councils to improve their performance and so put many more such properties back into use . |
| 16 | He also kept two or three cows for the sustenance of the family , and so required two , three or four pieces of enclosed land around his house . |
| 17 | She and her companion lived in a paddock of only a few acres and so required daily feed of grain and hay . |
| 18 | They agreed with the Inland Revenue that the return of the fund on death fell within the definition of reasonable interest which the legislation required and so introduced this new concept . |