Example sentences of "[coord] so [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never got through unfortunately , after a month or so it was not topical enough to bother . |
| 2 | It is not the payment of interest at exorbitant rates and so we are not dealing necessarily with a monopoly situation . |
| 3 | To make matters worse , in vitro fertilisation is an experimental procedure and so there are not clearly defined standards of care against which a doctor 's actions could be judged . |
| 4 | The car was not bought for resale , and the purchase was incidental to the company 's business as a freight forwarder ; it was only the second or third car bought by the company and so there was not the required degree of regularity . |
| 5 | He claimed unfair dismissal , but the company argued that he was not an employee and so he was not eligible . |
| 6 | Rincewind felt the familiar sticky prickling in the scalp that indicated the build-up of a heavy charge of raw enchantment in the vicinity , and so he was not utterly amazed when , a few seconds later , a shaft of vivid octarine light speared down from the invisible ceiling and focused , crackling , in the centre of the circle . |
| 7 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 8 | And so I 'm not sure where it is , what time it is I do n't have no contact for it to get in touch with , and I 'm wondering if anybody , any of your listeners either members or know of the Guild . |
| 9 | By the time of the Lancaster House talks , Mrs Thatcher was in power , and I had very few dealings with her , and so I was not invited to participate . |
| 10 | Or : she loved Lucy and so she was not easy ; she was not at ease . |
| 11 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 12 | In arguing against the notion that the family is the origin of society , Marx and Engels reverse what they had argued in their previous writing , but Maine 's version of the argument , which gives priority to private property , is even more opposed to their general position , and so it is not surprising that they reject Maine in favour of Morgan . |
| 13 | Although a minor error in the recitation of the Vedas was looked upon with strong disapproval , passing events were regarded by the Hindus as devoid of real significance and so it is not surprising that no importance was attached to providing them with accurate dates . |
| 14 | And so it is not easily worn away or eroded . |
| 15 | Most of the time Harry was playing for Crystal Palace we were a Third Division club and so it is not surprising that most of the great achievements to which he helped to take us were in the FA Cup . |
| 16 | These coefficients are sensitive both to the difficulty of a test as well as its reliability ( consistency ) and so it is not easy to assess the latter . |
| 17 | It is unlikely that voting by a single shareholder will make much difference to the success of a resolution either way , and so it is not worthwhile for shareholders to evaluate proposals put to the general meeting . |
| 18 | Of course , Britain is not a democracy of the kind envisaged by those nineteenth-century theorists who focused on the active and informed citizen , and so it is not a democracy that is in accord with the " old-fashioned " liberal-democratic theory of the constitution , but interest-group competition provides for a good working democratic system . |
| 19 | The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later . |
| 20 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 21 | Religious support is normally little called upon — indeed the record of most religions with regard to these issues is not regarded as good , and so it is not surprising that many see religion as the suppressor of human rights rather than as their advocate . |
| 22 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 23 | The Figure omits the clones and probes spanning the rDNA region , because the majority of these clones also hybridise to over half of of the other YAC probes , and so it is not possible to place these clones and probes at a single position on the map . |
| 24 | Our pond is surrounded by crazy paving and slabs and so it 's not possible to put canes around from which cotton can be stretched across the pond . |
| 25 | Luckily , in Megadeth most of our tunes are quite different from each other and so it 's not too much of a problem to keep my solos different . ’ |
| 26 | Unlike his team mate , who has what would be a Rug Nightmare except that he 's Italian and so it 's not . |
| 27 | And so it 's not a case of our waiting it 's rather a case of our receiving . |
| 28 | And so it 's not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved . |
| 29 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 30 | And so it was not with any special disappointment that Tate envisaged how Eliot 's message , his distinctively American apprehension of Europe , might thereafter be conveyed less in poems than in his conduct of The Criterion , the magazine he had begun to edit in 1923 : |