Example sentences of "so [vb pp] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 2 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 3 | Gorbad Ironclaw was one of the most successful Orc leaders of all time : his campaign of destruction raged across the Empire and left the region of Solland so devastated that it has never fully recovered . |
| 4 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
| 5 | The model is so named because it describes a mechanism designed to compel managers to act in the shareholders ' interests which depends on vesting owner-like rights in the shareholders , as mentioned , to appoint , monitor , and replace the most senior tier of management and to make certain other fundamental decisions . |
| 6 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 7 | The original American ‘ Airknocker ’ — so called because it sounds exactly like an old vintage motorcycle — was powered by Aeronca 's own E-113C 40 hp engine , but the British C-100 version used a licence-built version of the famous horizontally-opposed twin , built by J.A.Prestwick Ltd. and designated the JAP-J99 . |
| 8 | So called because it dips automatically should a car approach from behind with all lights blazing . |
| 9 | Cellular radio is so called because it divides the country into small areas served by a radio base , and then divides each of these areas into ‘ cells ’ . |
| 10 | Robert is team leader in the black back cell at the Coventry factory , so called because it deals with tiles that have a black PVC ply in the lamination . |
| 11 | Having set the backlight , bring in the key light , so called because it provides the photographic modelling and sets the general level of exposure . |
| 12 | Positive bias , so called because it has the effect of increasing the accessible success area of the catastrophe surface , results from a cultural environment orientated towards systems and standards , analysis and risk avoidance in R&D programmes . |
| 13 | But if the entire building is so damaged that it has to be torn down and rebuilt , the landlord collects from his insurer to rebuild . |
| 14 | After Mrs Wordingham 's death later in 1989 , Mr Wordingham applied to the High Court for rectification of the will under s 20(1) ( a ) of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , which states that ‘ if the court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator 's intentions , in consequence — ( a ) of a clerical error … it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions … ‘ . |
| 15 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 16 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 17 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |