Example sentences of "[coord] so [vb base] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once home , float their bag(s) in the tank , and after twenty minutes or so add a little tank water , repeating the process over the next hour or so until the fish have adjusted ( if necessary ) to your tank water . |
| 2 | The evidence he has collected shows that working people of the last century were able to hold an image of society from their own experience and so articulate a political consciousness . |
| 3 | Alternatively , the Soviets might select the site at Brawdy as a target for a sudden nuclear strike in order to demonstrate that they were able to protect their submarines in the Atlantic and so maintain the nuclear threat which the presence of such posed to the United States . |
| 4 | The turbine employs the difference in temperature between levels to produce vapour pressure in a working fluid , and so turn a simple generator ( 4 ) . |
| 5 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 6 | A young and inexperienced pilot may not feel able to take command of the situation and so prevent a stupid accident or an unnecessary risk being taken . |
| 7 | First , acyclovir triphosphate might simply compete with dGTP for a binding site on the polymerase enzyme , and so prevent the proper incorporation of dGTP into DNA . |
| 8 | Two-dimensional spaces are particularly easy to visualize and so make an ideal vehicle for introducing the concepts that will be used later in discussing curvature in space–time ( three spatial dimensions plus one time dimension ) . |
| 9 | It is far better to ventilate the room well , and so remove the damp air causing the condensation . |
| 10 | For example , the numerator might be a count of people in a postcode sector who have , say , a cancer , yet , because the census and health data are reported for different areal units , it is not possible to find the appropriate at-risk population for the denominator and so compute a reliable incidence ratio . |
| 11 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly , the fact that both mothers and daughters are able to have babies and so enact a continuing cycle makes their dilemma of finding a harmonious balance difficult . |
| 13 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 14 | In the same way , if you place thin flower petals on top of any lumpy plant material , its uneven shape can damage or crease the petals , and so mar the finished result . |
| 15 | Agricultural development in the hills will create systems more sensitive to interference through public access and at the same time because of fencing , scrub clearance , land reclamation , etc. , change the appearance and so increase the potential conflict for recreational opportunity on the one hand and improved viability of agriculture on the other . |
| 16 | These trips may be run after the employee has agreed to undertake the assignment and so form an integral part of the briefing process given before the employee takes up his posting . |
| 17 | The department was ‘ determined to avoid sequences of letters that are obscene or insulting ’ , and so put a complete ban on WET and DRY , on PIG and RAT , on FAG and DYK , on FEM and GYP , on ODD and POT , as well of course on SEX and SIN . |
| 18 | And so become a just judge — of theirs . ’ |
| 19 | This theory is that , as in the adult , the changes associated with being asleep and awake will have a direct effect upon all rhythms , and so become the external cause of them . |
| 20 | Did its appearance signify a scientific publication and so excuse a subsequent press conference or was it , as many scientists claimed , a badly written uninformative document of limited scientific credibility that did little to support its authors ' claims to have found fusion ? |
| 21 | It was apparent that he had used it both to slam the shutters and so knock the simple latch back into place . |
| 22 | This time the US State Department was able to exercise more control over policy-making and so avert a diplomatic crisis . |
| 23 | To remove the paper from the system — and so eliminate the huge cost of shifting paper about — current thinking advocates the establishment of a centralised depository alongside the clearing house , where stock certificates would be held and ‘ immobilised ’ , although not eliminated or ‘ dematerialised ’ as originally intended with Taurus . |
| 24 | Ultimately it could censure the Commission and so dismiss the whole body , but such an action was so extreme that its use was not even threatened until 1972 . |
| 25 | The achievement of a goal will serve to reinforce the behaviour and so establish a causal connection between needs and goals . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been teaching Connections since it first came out , and I enjoy it very much , and so do the vast majority of our students . ’ |
| 27 | They all deserve to enjoy the pleasure of an historic , beautiful , grand old theatre like the Neptune — and so do the theatre-loving public . |
| 28 | As you work with more texts you can build up these specialist sluices and so create a unique resource for your own teaching situation . |
| 29 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 30 | In recent years , there have been several examples of governments excluding or controlling television cameras in order to control the ‘ flow of information ’ and so minimize the political impact of the medium . |