Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] so [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude .
2 At £26 or so a square yard , Cottage Collection may not leave you with a lot to spend on lavish celebrations .
3 AT £26 OR SO A SQUARE YARD , COTTAGE COLLECTION MAY NOT LEAVE YOU WITH A LOT TO SPEND ON LAVISH CELEBRATIONS .
4 Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave .
5 You would get a much cleaner ball as a result and so the whole flow of the game would improve .
6 Although five different quarters are involved , each kind of quarter ( 1st , 2nd , 3rd , 4th ) carries equal weight and so the seasonal effect is eliminated .
7 The latter , however , has failed to meet the growing needs of local peasantry and so the old technology is being restored .
8 That is to say , W is from ten thousand to a million times higher than G and so the critical crack length is longer in direct proportion .
9 since the poles of this function are given by where p is any integer including zero , which is equivalent to rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane reveals that the transfer function to be provided is or Two reactive components are needed to achieve second-order response and so the relevant low-pass filter in conjunction with the load resistance R is as shown in figure 12.2(a) .
10 From 1867 onwards it became clear that the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne and so a small household was established .
11 Unfortunately for the antediluvian bowl-heads , a right-thinking retailer phoned the RSPCA on the grounds that it was cruel to goldfish and so the whole idea had to be binned .
12 Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell .
13 FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity .
14 Both of these are frequently mixed or compounded with other minerals such as copper or lead and so a virtual monopoly was held by the old Mines Royal Company , and its permission was needed .
15 Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war .
16 Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war .
17 After a mile or so the Old Man is reached , just south and west of the actual Point Of Stoer ( 25 minutes ) .
18 During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ .
19 I understand John McGrath 's sentiments but over the last decade or so the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for . ’
20 If equipment has to travel between hospitals and schools , it must be able to withstand stress and so a strong carrying case is preferable .
21 Conversely , the character and so the supraspecific group membership of the species that have originated in any area is determined by conditions there .
22 When the suit is wet , it traps a thin layer of water between the body and the suit and your body quickly warms that up to a comfortable working temperature but if you fall in when the suit is dry , the cold water can be quite a shock and so a good trick in cold weather is to put the wet suit on in a hot shower and then over the top you wear a spray suit again to keep off the wind and to protect the wetsuit .
23 The ground rose slightly , then dipped ; after a hundred yards or so a shallow outcrop of rocks hid the house .
24 Within the next , er month or so a national consultation is being held within the URC to consider the advice of producing a programme of training for eldership which will be used throughout the call of the church and if there are any suggestions or any proposal that anyone would like to make I shall be very glad to receive them within the next month .
25 The Court of Appeal held that there was no contract between the owners and the port authority and so the secondary action was illegal .
26 The child of a globe-trotting executive mother is looked after by a female nanny and so the positive image of women in outward-looking powerful jobs is at once cancelled .
27 Here we have , albeit speculatively ( and more baldly than most specialists would dare ) , the distributions and dispersals of archaic populations and so a geographical history of human populations throughout the world .
28 In year 5 , demand levels off at 3,500 units — the firm , though , already has the thirty-five machines necessary to meet this demand and so no new investment is necessary . .
29 The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly
30 Of course , from this end , we had to see England in all their matches and so a local production company was hired for the day — and I mean local .
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