Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We find that the pioneering work , the successful exporters , are really a handful of companies , maybe 100 or so right across the spectrum of technology . |
| 2 | Despite being launched six months or so ago in the US , with almost singular lack of impact , this part of the package has been accepted internally as a program integrator by no less an august institution than IBM itself . |
| 3 | They caught up with him a mile or so away at the Plough Inn . |
| 4 | This means that there is a healthy 240 volts floating just an inch or so away from the Spectrum PCB and the keyboard . |
| 5 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 6 | He then waited for the wasps to leave on bee-hunting expeditions , and while they were away he moved the cones a yard or so away from the entrances ( Figure 4.4 ) . |
| 7 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 8 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |
| 9 | Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre . |
| 10 | Almost at once they heard the music of the hunt — the pack and the leaders , running crosswind a furlong or so downhill from the path . |
| 11 | There was an unexplained delay of five or ten minutes — perhaps while the searchlight crews came back to their action stations on the great lights , including the five-foot beam on the west bank a mile or so downstream from the port , and the light commanding the river from the end of the Old Mole . |
| 12 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 13 | By the end of 1982 , about 1000 effluent licences were granted , leaving 600 or so still in the hands of local authorities . |
| 14 | The legalism of their arguments ran into a kind of collective common sense , which told voters that it was , after all , his constitution and that so soon after the end of the war France still needed de Gaulle . |
| 15 | ‘ I have promised that so often in the past , and it has never answered yet ! ’ |
| 16 | Masud Hoghughi , director of Aycliffe children 's centre , said : ‘ It is most regrettable that so long after the Children Act this ambiguity continues . |
| 17 | But the man at the front had n't been told this of course , naturally enough and he could n't see that so suddenly with a jolt the wardrobe left him , two steps ' worth instead of one at a time . |
| 18 | She had never imagined that a kiss could feel like this , that a man 's arms could enclose and shield her so thoroughly against any other awareness , that her body would respond so passionately and so completely from the roots of her hair to the backs of her knees . |
| 19 | In the years immediately following 1945 , however , foreign exchange markets were so disrupted and so strongly under the control of government that the post-war government could establish its own internal programme while relatively insulated from international financial forces . |
| 20 | He knew , as well , that Tree Spirits cling tenaciously to their homes until those homes become untenable because of the Tree dying and drying and he thought that Miach 's spell must have been stronger than any of them had thought for it to draw the Spirits so filly and so firmly into the open . |
| 21 | The guiding principle must be that the overall value or interest of the essay lies in how its combination of observation and argument leads towards more general statements , and so away from the particularity of autobiography and personal impression . |
| 22 | At any rate , their bishoprics could not equal the territorial wealth , and so presumably to an extent the political influence , of some of their southern brethren . |
| 23 | Little has changed so radically and so frequently in the United Kingdom constitution during the past two decades as the structure of local government . |
| 24 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 25 | At a later date , however , the fort was probably moved to lower ground and so closer to the site of the future town ; two pieces of cavalry equipment from the Bleachfield Road area plus a few Claudian coins and some slight remains of early timber-framed buildings , might be thought to support this view . |
| 26 | He 's not as All the programmes are changed this morning , the youngsters being off school and so instead of the news it 's all these youngster 's programmes . |
| 27 | So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went ! |
| 28 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 29 | So now you can relate positions one to three to how much they cost and so on on the way down . |
| 30 | I had lost four points for having only one hand on the wheel ‘ when initiating braking ’ , three for ‘ incorrect hand positions when cornering ’ , three for ‘ exceeding the permitted rev limit ’ and so on to a total of 27 errors . |