Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [conj] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only modifications to the logic discussed above are that the code for ‘ square occupied ’ is no longer 1 , but is the actual stream number ( 1 for the first stream , 2 for the second and so on ) . |
| 2 | But for each of the thousand or so explicitly identifiable speech acts there are just as many for which there is neither a name nor a lexical indicator . |
| 3 | Facts such as the deceased woman 's maiden name , the birthplace of the deceased and so on will all be needed , as will the person 's national insurance number , state benefit books and NHS card . |
| 4 | Instead it would be an expression of preferences , indicated by putting the figure 1 opposite the name of the first-preferred candidate , the figure 2 opposite the name of the second-preferred and so on . |
| 5 | In his monumental opus Terra Nostra — certainly one of the dozen or so most important novels to be published in any language since the Second World War — the respected Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes depicted Jesus as surviving the Cross by means of fraudulent crucifixion involving a substitute . |
| 6 | Certainly , none of the 20 or so currently available soloists matches Gilels in the concerto 's slow movement where the playing is astonishing in its absorption and intense , concentrated quiet . |
| 7 | When the first bowl has filled , the water falls into the second and so on until it reaches the pool below . |
| 8 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 9 | This assumption allows Lucas to measure as the deviation of actual real output , from the value predicted from a regression of on a constant and time ( where time might take the value of 1 in the first year of the data period , 2 in the second and so on ) . |
| 10 | When you feel you have the first mode together , move on to the second and so on . |
| 11 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 12 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 13 | I call the first row a zig-zag row as the yarn must zig-zag between the beds , that is , go from one needle on the main bed , to one on the ribber , to one on the main and so on . |