Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [noun] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of justification may also arise where A seeks to assert rights under a contract with B which is inconsistent with another contract between B and C. The question here is whether A has a right equal or superior to that of C and if he has he is justified in persuading B to break his contract with C. So if B enters into a contract on Monday to sell to A for £10,000 and then next day to sell the same property to C for £15,000 A , by persuading B to perform the first contract commits no wrong against C. |
| 2 | A common example of this form of the tort , though now much restricted by the legislation governing trade disputes , has been the situation where X is B 's servant , whom A induces to act in breach of his contract of employment so as to prevent B fulfilling his contract . |
| 3 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 4 | But he could n't control it , for all his knowledge , and it would lift his hair into bristles so that he looked like Desperate Dan and she could n't help but laugh until his fragile ego wobbled and then he shouted and then she loved him more , more than when he was intact . |
| 5 | The youthful Rundell appears to have shown his aptitude for business so rapidly that within three or four years Pickett , admittedly increasingly preoccupied by aldermanic affairs on his way to becoming lord mayor in 1789 , made him a partner . |
| 6 | The student is given the opportunity either of broadening his areas of study so that he learns some of the principles and methods of several disciplines or of concentrating on the narrower range in order to become a specialist after suitable experience , training or further study . |
| 7 | In 1004 Henry II ordered a halt in his campaign in Italy so that no Christian blood would be shed at Easter . |
| 8 | James — though younger — butted his pieces of wood so that the train ran smoothly over the joins . |
| 9 | In practice , however , the young constable soon learns that it is a more paying proposition from his point of view so to work his beat that the time-table is not deflected from . |
| 10 | Once the land round it was worked , but no one these days would break his back over soil so rocky and barren . |
| 11 | David Pipe was helping his father at Aintree so the ride on Martin Pipe 's Ring The Pipeline in the Maiden ( Div 2 ) went to Nick Moore , 19 , an assistant at the Nicholashayne yard . |
| 12 | Having successfully demonstrated the safety of his method of treatment so that it was being adopted by inoculators throughout the country Sutton had already unwittingly performed his greatest service in the fight against smallpox . |
| 13 | The evidence of his claim to greatness so far is sketchy , to say the least . |
| 14 | Murdoch had long planned to move part of his operation to Wapping so as to increase his printing capacity . |
| 15 | He was very small , sandy-haired , sharp-featured and with his sense of smell so well developed that it was rumoured that he had sniffed out a suicide in Epping Forest even before the animal predators got to it . |
| 16 | It was the same quality that made his fascination with money so inoffensive . |
| 17 | After a lot of ranting and raving at his lack of success so far , he determines to launch an all-out attack on the guerrillas . |
| 18 | ( The Siege of Troy is available in the same series and is my own favourite of the three , with Helen , Menelaus , Hector and Achilles , and Memnon with the ‘ dark cloud ’ of his warriors from countries so hot that men 's skins are burnt black and nothing is white about them except their teeth . |
| 19 | He increased the magnetism of his boots to maximum so as to draw himself down . |
| 20 | And Pound was not above using his connection with Hewlett so as to get entry to those circles . |