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

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1 They had no direct experience of the Second Republic or the Civil War and so were less fearful of the consequences of change .
2 The central importance attached to the inefficiency of labour markets is either so generally abstract as to have little or no practical application or so partial as to ignore the necessary interdependence between labour supply and a whole range of institutions .
3 The second possibility that Nikolaev committed the murder under the guidance of the NKVD seems to be more likely that the first possibility because so many people seem to have conveniently neglected their duties but I still think that it is not the most likely .
4 For molecules AX 2 , whether linear like CO 2 or bent like H 2 S , the symmetric stretch is of higher symmetry than the antisymmetric stretch and so is labeled ν 1 , even though it is lower in frequency .
5 Firstly , most of the competing hypotheses scored sufficiently less than the correct hypothesis and so could be eliminated by forwards pruning from the search on acoustic grounds ( see Fig. 9.2 , point B ) , thus preventing the growth of an increasingly large band of hypotheses .
6 The world complained about Adobe 's restrictions but all the major typesetter vendors realised that a single well defined and maintained standard was better than the previous chaos and so adopted Adobe 's PostScript .
7 A female friend who was visiting suggested that Amy might have more fun being the Prime Minister than a lowly maid and so Amy went off to dress as the PM .
8 If you want more , go inland ; if you can get by with less , stay in the city ; if you do n't need more than a square foot or so , go to the islands .
9 And what pride she had , that transcended her meagre purse and the threadbare pelisse that so little kept out the winter cold that she still wore it inside the house , and had been obliged to come down from her room to seek a little warmth from the dying fire .
10 IT 'S the office party season and the next week or so will be spent drinking , eating and dancing to excess .
11 Now four years later I 'm doing British social and economic history , seventeen hundred to the present day , and then listing a whole lot of textile inventions and the flying shuttle and so on , all of which did n't work anyway . ’
12 This was a way of defining the parish boundary , and every half mile or so gospels would be read and a cross erected .
13 Joe is the current chairman of the Ulster branch of the BUI and will be staying in the game on the administrative side of things but the next week or so he will be very busy on court .
14 But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta .
15 The middle years of the fourteenth century saw the change from mail armour to plate , while the coming century or so witnessed many improvements in design , so that arrows , bolts , and pikes were met with glancing surfaces which , like the changes in architecture intended to counter the effect of the cannon ball , caused the deflection of the missile away from its target .
16 I am a Word Processor Operator as well as a keen knitter and so I ‘ borrowed ’ a little high-tech knowledge from that field to solve my problem when it reared its ugly head during my introduction to the knitting machine .
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