Example sentences of "[adv] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three groups co-operated loosely so that none could be isolated and stopped . |
| 2 | There are advantages in transferring the investments to your wife altogether so that the income arises to her if she has spare allowances , or if you are in the age allowance trap and she is not . |
| 3 | A chain command where a series of requests is made altogether so that the child gets information overload , e.g. ‘ Put your toys away , tidy up your bed , and put those shoes in the box ’ . |
| 4 | So it 's seven twelfths altogether so if we add a third to a quarter |
| 5 | If I 'm not mistaken , my friend , Mrs. Jewkes , has not altogether so many qualms . |
| 6 | you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know |
| 7 | Well they 're altogether so I suppose |
| 8 | Why should the Roman Church in Constantine 's time have adopted such a position , theologically so scandalous ? |
| 9 | After that Creggan often talked to her , sometimes in a barest whisper that only she could hear , and other times more powerfully so that others could share her dream and inner peacefulness . |
| 10 | He was , perhaps , more powerfully so , and not merely as a matter of proximate generation but precisely because such strenuous efforts had been made to exclude him . |
| 11 | Your letters in French , particularly the French of Molière , are incredibly so , for you do n't speak the language . |
| 12 | Erm in fact incredibly so erm Very nice place to work actually erm so I 'll do a bit of friendly chasing . |
| 13 | From 1932 to 1940 , Britain was governed by National Government which , although predominantly Conservative , was by no means wholly so . |
| 14 | He spoke in English , presumably so the woman would not understand , and Edouard suddenly felt furiously angry . |
| 15 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 16 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 17 | Following the sale of the cargo and the payment of the net proceeds , U.S.$2,353,991.95 , into court , nothing further was done in the action until 16 January 1992 when Crossman Block issued a summons as ‘ solicitors for the Republic of Somalia ’ applying that the Republic of Somalia be joined as a party to the action , that the buyers of the cargo be also joined , presumably so that they could be bound by any decision of the court , and that |
| 18 | The statements had been collected by the sergeant and handed out to his colleague on the reception desk , presumably so that the preliminary checking could begin . |
| 19 | Some countships were more equal than others : a " greater " count was presumably so called in part because his civitas was richer and more important , for instance , as a central place in one of the regna ( like Angers in Neustria , or Autun in Burgundy ) . |
| 20 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 21 | There was a big red bell on the outside wall of the office , presumably so that humans could hear the telephone ring when the quarry was noisy . |
| 22 | you know that , that you know he saw something valuable and wanted to preserve presumably so |
| 23 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 24 | Nik Cohn , the writer , described him as , ‘ an amiable fatman from Catford , a bit of a slag and conspicuously so but shrewd , funny and hard to dislike . ’ |
| 25 | Other examples of mid-course diversions ( the SS-11 ) have been moderately successful , and some ( the SS-20 , which started out life unsuccessfully as the three stage SS-16 ICBM ) have been conspicuously so . |
| 26 | ( Diodorus ' universal history is weighted towards Sicily in the classical period , conspicuously so in book xiv which covers 404387 ; , this is no doubt partly because he was Sicilian himself . ) |
| 27 | Possibly the markedly low figures for both Cambridgeshire and the town of Cambridge indicate effective enforcement of the tax , and in Kent , Norfolk and Suffolk , too , the figures are below average , although less conspicuously so , but in Essex and Hertfordshire they are higher . |
| 28 | The claws on the crane did n't seem to close properly so that , even if they did manage to get a grip on a tube of sweets or a pink plastic comb , the prizes always slipped out again as soon as the crane started to lift them . |
| 29 | The category of killings which has come to be known as involuntary manslaughter has nothing to do with involuntariness , properly so called . |
| 30 | But the distinction between Public and grammar remained unclear , although the lines were sharpened by the creation in 1869 of the Headmasters ' Conference and the consequent definition of an inner circle of boys ' Public Schools , properly so called . |