Example sentences of "and so a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that blocks do not score , however well they are executed , and so a follow-up punch , kick or strike is essential . |
| 2 | Ideally , farmers would like to grow the larvae from eggs , and so a new industry — prawn hatcheries — has grown up to meet the demand . |
| 3 | And so a thrilling , virtuoso display of the art was the first spectacle the Prince and Princess of Wales saw when they stepped ashore here last night to be greeted by a modest but affectionate crowd of 4,000 . |
| 4 | In those days Womblemania stalked these islands , and so a large audience had gathered to witness Uncle Bulgaria and Co as they strutted their stuff . |
| 5 | And so a sanitized canon of soul and funk was drawn up : James Brown 's ‘ Say it Loud , I 'm Black and I 'm Proud ’ , Curtis Mayfield 's ‘ Move On Up ’ and ‘ We 've got to Have Peace ’ , Timmy Thomas 's ‘ Why Ca n't We Live Together ’ , Gil Scott Heron 's ‘ The Bottle ’ , Grandmaster Flash 's ‘ The Message ’ , Brother D and the Collective Effort 's ‘ How We Gon na Make the Black Nation Rise ’ , James Brown and Afrika Bambatta 's ‘ Unity ’ . |
| 6 | For example , it is unfortunately true that many people experience a burglary at their home ; this usually means things being stolen and so a significant loss occurs . |
| 7 | It turned out there were large surpluses in the BTR pension fund and so a good chance that the transfer value , as well as the potential pension , would be increased in the not too distant future . |
| 8 | Consolidation and centralisation have been effected to a much greater degree than here , and so a reaction to their effects may be expected to be stronger . |
| 9 | From 1867 onwards it became clear that the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne and so a small household was established . |
| 10 | In most cases , divers working at those depths tend to reach the limits of maximum bottom time , and so a speedy assent to the surface is not desirable . |
| 11 | Although this treatment was undoubtedly efficacious in some cases , the patients ended up with malaria , and so a ‘ fever box ’ was developed in which the patient 's temperature could be maintained at over 106°F for several hours . |
| 12 | The origin of all organs can thus be mapped and so a ‘ face map ’ can be plotted which indicates to what the normal embryo will give rise . |
| 13 | But in fact every creative and inventive and imaginative activity ( including that of inventing new tools ) is better done with the help of ‘ technology ’ , and so a failure to familiarize children at school with the use of such technology inhibits their imaginative potential , as well as making them incompetent and virtually unemployable when they leave school . |
| 14 | And so a strong tradition has grown up that teachers must know their pupils , care for them in a general way , interest themselves in their moral development , and give them as many educational opportunities as possible outside the class-room as well as in it . |
| 15 | Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns . |
| 16 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 17 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 18 | There may be a collecting bias against the foot bones , however , because they are small and easily overlooked , and so a comparison has been made here between the proximal and distal limb elements , the former being the femur and humerus , and the latter represented by the tibia and radius ( values for ulna are very similar ) . |
| 19 | And so a malign circle developed — unlike the ascending spiral occurring in more southerly parts . |
| 20 | If equipment has to travel between hospitals and schools , it must be able to withstand stress and so a strong carrying case is preferable . |
| 21 | The greater this distance , the longer the time taken to make the final uncovered dash ( T ) , and so a duck can afford to lower its peeking rate . |
| 22 | His father was probably steward of the king of Scotland as earl of Northampton , and so a baron of some standing , but not a tenant-in-chief ; Gilbert 's brother or nephew rose by marriage into this rank . |
| 23 | Pursuit encourages further retreat , and so a vicious spiral is established which can destabilize a relationship . |
| 24 | The system used a very early expert system shell and soon runs out of capacity and so a later version of the shell was purchased that could cope with an increased knowledge base . |
| 25 | Experience showed , he said , that the proportion which debts recovered bore to the cost of the court proceedings was less than one in twenty , and so a burden on trade and business . |
| 26 | Much to my surprise he was just at the point of actively seeking more support , and so a relationship began between church and community association which has developed and grown … as has , incidentally , the friendship between their respective leaders . |
| 27 | You see , the human perception is that the thicker string feels different to the thin one , and so a balanced set of strings actually feels completely out of balance . |
| 28 | The operations of this scientific management structure itself need to be managed , and so a further management hierarchy has to be erected on top of the workshop-based organisation structure to manage the ‘ scientific managers ’ . |
| 29 | Ciaran Fitzgerald and the team will be all too aware that they let the fans down and so a repeat of that disaster in the remaining matches is most unlikely . |
| 30 | If , for example , language is used to establish a context of shared knowledge rather than to identify aspects of a pre-existing one , then there is likely to be a higher degree of explicit lexical reference and so a higher proportion of full words . |