Example sentences of "so [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few cases where a horn has been removed this can be proved by stating so or by an admission on the part of the defendant . |
| 2 | Nowadays you are careful to address Interpreter Ni , Professor Chen and Party Secretary Yang by their handle as well as their name — and can cause serious insult by forgetting to do so or by introducing them to each other in the wrong order . |
| 3 | So where in Ten Dudley Moore was merely menopausal , here Anthony Quinn is dead . |
| 4 | So where in God 's name is Crackbene ? ’ |
| 5 | These purchase notice provisions are restricted to owner occupiers of houses and small businesses who can show that they have made reasonable attempts to sell their property but have found it impossible to do so except at a substantially depreciated price because of certain defined planning actions . |
| 6 | I do n't think so except for the relation to domestics . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available . |
| 8 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |
| 9 | So although for the majority of cases that a fatal as a result of diphtheria the fact that , due actually to the pharyngitis and the pseudo- membrane obstructing the respiratory passage . |
| 10 | Network Southeast carries passengers three hundred and ninety million passengers a year , more than half the total for the whole of B R. So although off peak increases have been pegged at four percent , today 's announcement affects huge numbers of commuters . |
| 11 | So although in a liberal democracy it would seem practical and even suitable for the police to have a say in the way order is defined and maintained , as Foucault ( 1970 ) and Douglas ( 1987 ) have shown , this will inevitably take on an expansionist line ; for anything other than bland support of the proposals of the institution will present a challenge or pose a threat . |
| 12 | So although in a sense one 's moral judgements indicate simply one 's personal emotional response to a situation , in making one 's response stable by further enquiry into the details of a situation , and by further reflection , one is not only stabilising one 's own feelings but moving towards the way of feeling about the situation on which men in general would converge . |
| 13 | So although in Britain we have a national system of health care provision the way services have developed shows considerable variation between districts . |
| 14 | Entirely electronic amplifiers are arranged in banks , so that between eight and sixteen channels of EEG are transmitted to a bank of galvanometers . |
| 15 | As UK farm production rose , the economy became nearly self-sufficient in many foodstuffs and a net exporter of others so that between 1958 and 1983 the UK 's net imports of food almost halved in quantity . |
| 16 | Zambia became caught in a vicious circle because the mining industry is also heavily dependent on increasingly expensive imports , so that over time , output , investment and productivity fell . |
| 17 | Incidentally , Dubhe and Alkaid are moving across the sky in a direction opposite to that of the remaining five stars , so that over a sufficiently long period the Plough will lose its familiar shape . |
| 18 | Gradual decreases in pH with time lead to prolonged acidity which interferes with fish reproduction and spawning , so that over time there is a decrease in fish population and a shift to a smaller number of more tolerant older and larger fish . |
| 19 | These were men unmarked by battle who screamed indistinguishable news as they rode , so that over the river and through the trees you could glimpse the turning masks of grinning enemy faces , while on this side of the river the King put up his hand and Tuathal and his men came to a halt . |
| 20 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 21 | The old process of commuting death sentences also remained in effect , and the result of these arrangements was that about half of all eighteenth-century felons were transported , so that about 30,000 were sent to North America in the next 60 years . |
| 22 | First , there has been a large increase in owner-occupation so that about three-quarters of farmland is now farmed by its owners ( see figure 7.4 ) . |
| 23 | With care , about 12 harmonics may be obtained so that about an order of magnitude of frequency range is available . |
| 24 | The scents are possibly modified to pheromones in mating , for bees carrying scent apparently attract other males , so that about five display together whereupon the female chooses her mate . |
| 25 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 26 | So that into the turn of the year , I ca n't be any more precise er than that , certainly we would hope to be seeing er the wood er from the trees . |
| 27 | Secondly , in some species the choice is remarkably finely tuned so that under certain circumstances familiarity may be preferred over novelty . |
| 28 | As of Oct. 31 Zhelev had not invited anyone to form a new government so that under the terms of the Constitution the Dimitrov government remained in office in a caretaker capacity . |
| 29 | Many of them are pioneers , characteristic of early successional sequences elsewhere , and are well adapted for long-distance dispersal , so that under isolated circumstances such pioneers can form ‘ mature ’ communities , even though the level of disturbance is low . |
| 30 | The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 . |