Example sentences of "so [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The fact that growing numbers of students are making the personal decision to go into higher education each year suggests strongly that our system of student support , far from providing a deterrent , is encouraging more people to go into higher education , who perhaps would not have had the confidence to do so or the belief that it is appropriate for them .
2 It will not do so where the majority have acted in bad faith , or where class interests have not been properly identified and fairly represented ( see below ) , or where it can be demonstrated that the majority voted in favour of the scheme because of their interests as shareholders of another class or as creditors ( see Carruth v ICI [ 1937 ] AC 707 ) .
3 so where the bird alights in terror
4 They in fact shade into each other , even more obviously so where the distinction is between different forms of literate practice ; and the distinction , if it is based on supposed differences in cognitive processes , in ‘ logic ’ and the development of ‘ science ’ , is open to the criticisms that Goody himself , along with Lévi-Strauss and others , levels against the theory of a ‘ great divide ’ .
5 Doubtless enamoured as he was to see his name in print , I hope that now , by use of the same medium , he will understand my thoughts which I sent with equally heartfelt intensity : so where the f— was Morrissey at Finsbury Park on Sunday ?
6 The same true , though to a slightly less extent , I think the North West so although the increase is , is not as strong as in Yorkshire , Wales and Scotland , nevertheless continuing
7 So although the law is mainly directed at shopkeepers , it could also be applied to anyone who sells or gives a young person a sniffable product .
8 So although the quantity of money required will be larger in the case of monthly payment , the velocity of circulation will be lower than for weekly payment ( assuming total spending is the same ) .
9 So although the machine may have run for eight minutes , it was not an uninterrupted eight minutes .
10 So although the budget is two thousand that 's what , a cumulative budget or a share of the annual budget ?
11 So although the ERP had to persist for several hundred milliseconds before the subject felt anything , they nevertheless reported that the sensation had occurred at the moment when the ERP was beginning .
12 So although the absence of key workers in Newham meant that there were few boundary disputes , it also meant that the development officer could become very closely involved in organising other services , and perhaps feel that other services took advantage of the Home Support Project and showed less involvement than would have been necessary without the project .
13 The design of the studies was similar , so although the difference is likely to be real , the reason is unclear .
14 So although the president is given by the constitution the power of commander in chief , in the same document at the same time congress is given the power to declare war .
15 So although the gamma ray background tells us that there can be no more than 300 primordial black holes per cubic light-year on average , it tells us nothing about how common they might be in our own galaxy .
16 Over the months one of the D ring rivets at the flex point of the boot has started to dig into my foot , so although the padding inside the boot is OK , it could be better .
17 And so although the disease fits my prescription , and although it too can be usefully linked with a skin complaint ( eczema ) which also flakes away at the body 's surface , I had to abandon asthma .
18 So once the Trust acquired the house it began to do a number of it began to do three things .
19 This arises from the fact that no one really dances through life , though doing so once the curtain has risen .
20 The ideal tasting glass should be broader at the base than the top , so that the aroma concentrates around the rim — this makes it easier to appreciate .
21 Here is the detail of a world we may be glad to have lost : the constables listen at the keyhole to a flaming row , solemnly counting up swear-words so that the fine per oath could be calculated properly .
22 The area is known as referential communication , as the role of the speaker is to describe verbally a given object ( or , more rarely , an action or relationship ) , so that the listener , relying entirely on the language received , can work out what the message refers to .
23 The task is for the speaker to select and describe one of a series of items so that the listener is able to identify the chosen item from an identical set .
24 In the standard referential communication task the speaker describes one of a restricted set of items so that the listener is able to identify the target .
25 But in speech , these words are specifically pointed out so that the listener can be in no doubt .
26 Subscripts and superscripts are introduced in eqn ( 4.1 ) so that the notation is consistent with that used from Chapter 5 onwards .
27 Sunday best pale and awkward teenagers , unsure and toughly giggly , sit around the central dance floor waiting for the first two or three to start dancing so that the rush can begin .
28 ABA so that the calculation is correct and no two letters stand for the same digit .
29 Such an electronic transition has various possible changes in vibrational and rotational quantum numbers associated with it , so that the spectrum , however it is obtained , consists of a number of vibration bands , each with rotational fine structure , together forming an electronic system of bands .
30 The iron bedsteads in the wards were only 2ft ; 4ins ; wide and there was an insufficient number of flock mattresses so that the bedding projected in the gaps between the iron laths .
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