Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] so [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they must find £20,000 or so for a cab . |
| 2 | In the early years about 50% of aircrew going through the course were National Servicemen who would only serve some three months or so on a squadron before their commitment was ended . |
| 3 | Several people complimented her on the beauty of the surroundings , because it was her picnic and so for a while Wales was her dining-room . |
| 4 | To say that a given rule is valid is to recognize it as passing all the tests provided by the rule of recognition and so as a rule of the system . |
| 5 | I had attended evening classes in Italian all winter and so after a pause I said ‘ I sogni non durano mai ’ — ‘ Dreams never last ’ . |
| 6 | Designated accessible polling stations , er will themselves have to cover fifty percent or so of a constituency initially and people will be allowed to have access to a designated station if their own station is one that has not qualified at that time , although the aim will be a hundred percent designated er polling stations with full access . |
| 7 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 8 | Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees . |
| 9 | After a decade or so as a librarian , and a spell as editor of Books and Bookman in the 1960s , Smith travelled around America with a suitcase full of samples of remaindered copies , which he sold to bargain book shops . |
| 10 | Eight-year-olds were beginning to acknowledge the distinction , in that when they used the causal connectives in the deductive mode they appropriately followed because with evidence and so with a conclusion . |
| 11 | And now that I 'm home for good , at least my bookings abroad will be for just a week or so at a time , that 's all , well … we 're coming together . |
| 12 | But a week or so in a holiday cottage is n't the same as becoming a permanent resident . |
| 13 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 14 | these are recommendations from a joint working party D of E of the erm local authority association and they are to almost unbelievable for us to consider and I can only assume that the that we must remember that this is really a response to what I call Heseltine 's last squeeze which was the idea of executive mayors and so in a sense lip service which has to be paid somewhere along those lines but it does recommend that we think seriously about cabinet govern government about single party committees and I ca n't imagine how anybody in their right minds would argue now that the cabinet government when they see what cabinet government leads to in Westminster and what de facto cabinet government leads to in majority ruled councils up and down the country erm , there is of course a I think a misleading er er brownie point the idea of relaxing restrictions on members allowances but members must realise why that is in there . |
| 15 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 16 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |