Example sentences of "so [vb pp] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Einstein proposed a box full of radiation with a clock-operated shutter , so arranged that it was open for a time At , letting out some radiation during this period . |
| 2 | The only trouble was that the photograph was so arranged that it would be very easy for a picture editor to crop the product out of the picture altogether ! |
| 3 | Some federal states are so centralised that it is doubtful whether one should continue to refer to them as federal . |
| 4 | When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Below that your ‘ bottom time ’ — the time between leaving the surface and commencing your ascent — is so limited that it 's hardly worthwhile . ’ |
| 7 | The small surplus that is distributed is so limited that it can not be shared by all , but patronage is a mechanism of selecting a few workers to benefit . |
| 8 | Joan 's use of Creole is so limited that it might be called tokenistic . |
| 9 | It was obviously old , but so corroded that it almost fell to pieces in my hand . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The ground was so contaminated that it was too dangerous even to try to remove the soil . |
| 12 | As Sir Arthur Bryant has so vividly put it , ‘ That life of scholarship and labour , with the tireless hand writing amid the intervals of prayer and teaching , sometimes so frozen that it could hardly grip the pen , is one of the proud memories of England . ’ |
| 13 | The court was told that the dog was so emaciated that it was little more than skin and bone . |
| 14 | In some cases land has become so degraded that it is agriculturally worthless . |
| 15 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 16 | The uses for speech synthesis are so varied that it is almost impossible to list them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Often the two structures are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate and distinguish them . |
| 19 | Planning and controlling are so intertwined that it is artificial to draw rigid lines between them . |
| 20 | They have suggested that the powerpack would be so designed that it could readily be repaired and with suitable maintenance would be capable of running for some 20 years . |
| 21 | The Bishop of London , Tait , agreed , adding that ‘ Any pity called up for the unfortunate Charles I was likely to be dissipated by statements in the services which were so exaggerated that it was likely when read to turn the staunchest Royalist into a parliamentarian . ’ |
| 22 | In the two-roomed apartment on the Rue de Montparnasse , Beatrice kept a ‘ twixty ’ , a bottle of brandy so named because it was never full and never empty . |
| 23 | Waterloo Bridge , so named because it was built in the year of the battle ( 1815 ) , is one of the oldest of the iron bridges of considerable size . |
| 24 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 25 | part of the slum area of St Giles 's , west London , between Bloomsbury and Covent Garden , so named because it is the point of convergence of seven streets . |
| 26 | Partially stenosed coronary arteries can often be re-bored using a hi-tech version of the pipe-cleaner known as a balloon catheter , so named because it can be blown up at the appropriate moment to expand the narrowed segment . |
| 27 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 28 | The next one was the Castle ford , so named because it lay directly under the castle rock , although almost two hundred feet below . |
| 29 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
| 30 | 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 . |