Example sentences of "and so they [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are given the status of goddesses by virtue of their being , in a Swedeoborgian sense , vessels of symbolic love and so they are mystified and removed from the realms of real , whole , sexual beings . |
| 2 | Associative feminist psychologies make unstable , continually changing liaisons with these social objects ; and so they are associative in two senses . |
| 3 | Nowadays , however , the constitutional authorities are unhappy about the electoral check ; they are very unhappy about the demise of the undemocratic checks of Crown and Lords ; they are profoundly uneasy about the power of party in government ; and so they are critical of the reality of what Parliamentary sovereignty has become . |
| 4 | Similarly , some modes of some molecules may involve no change in polarizability , and so they are Raman-inactive . |
| 5 | To sum up , if examples such as those in ( 28 ) and that in ( 29 ) are all ungrammatical , as we can readily agree , it is for different reasons : ( 28 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere ( 29 ) the man is very The adjectives in ( 28 ) lead to incoherence because , as already observed , they are specialized to qualify a property , and so they are incoherent in the predicative construction , which assigns the adjective property to the entity of the subject , not to its sense . |
| 6 | Long polymer chains tend to break down under strong light , particularly at ultraviolet wavelengths , and so they are difficult to observe . |
| 7 | Straight-sided models offer greater ‘ headroom ’ and so they are ideal for tall , space-hungry crops such as tomatoes and cucumbers . |
| 8 | In Glenelg ( Wester Ross ) where most of the people had a job with the Forestry Commission there were no possible alternatives to their present enterprises and so they were likely to do nothing . |
| 9 | These two are in a very small minority of black sportsmen who had not at some stage faced the distressing realization that they were black and so they were different and that difference could significantly limit their chances of access to the kind of resources available to others , prestige , affluence , esteem in the eyes of others . |
| 10 | For this they used flax grown in Northern Ireland and so they were able to cut their costs . |
| 11 | Whenever the tension mounted , he defused it with a razor-edged comment , as often as not directed at himself , and so they were able to keep the rising tide of passion at bay . |