Example sentences of "and so [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 !
8 A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat .
9 So now you can relate positions one to three to how much they cost and so on on the way down .
10 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 .
11 And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY .
12 Would you really , and think carefully about this , trust all your personal information ; diary , telephone list and so on to the memory of that recalcitrant computer on your office desk ?
13 And so on to the shop — ‘ hey … they 're selling stuff here ! ’ — and the cafe , the Casablanca Club , where a second voice murmurs , as it may well have done in arts centre days but certainly wo n't when the family visitor attraction becomes reality , ‘ a cup of coffee ? … pastry ? … hashish ? ’
14 The next two rows are accessed from a portside door , the next two from starboard , and so on along the aeroplane , except that the last row has a door to itself .
15 Because , out of her daughter-in-law and so on down the line , comes David , and then comes Jesus Christ .
16 And so too with the inside centre and so on across the field .
17 In the first place you 've got to type all those numbers , names and so on into the thing before it becomes of any real use .
18 Groups at the lowest level will themselves form constituents of groups at the next level up , and so on through the hierarchy .
19 Gib Sparling had his ham and eggs , and Scruffy the pleasure of watching somebody else peel spuds ; Dutch his pea soup thick enough to skate on , and Tex his coffee and bed with clean white sheets ; and so on through the list .
20 And so on through the book .
21 The twenty-third was allotted to Jupiter , the twenty-fourth to Mars , and the first of the next day to the sun , which thus ruled Sunday , and so on through the week .
22 Move on to the next question , and so on through the paper .
23 But also with it comes erm office accommodation which is handling the clerical processing , ordering and so on of the business itself .
24 Erm all I can say is the county council economic development people are are there on the ground with their helicopters and the cameras when Kimberley Clarke comes in or the Central Science Laboratory and the car people and so on of the moment .
25 ( a ) Planning with ‘ precise ’ goals can be likened to the Tour de France in which the participants aim for A , move on to B and so on until the end is reached .
26 A few bloodied survivors , swearing that they , and their children , and their children 's children , and so on until the end of the world , would live and die with one ambition burning in their hearts : the prevention of another such apocalypse .
27 ‘ No , according to her they just stayed undercover — separ-ately — in small villages and so on until the end of the war .
28 Given an allowable candidate word which is known to be able to start a compound or commonly used phrase , if the next part of the compound occurs in the list of alternatives for the next word position ( and so on until the end of the compound ) , then it is likely that the alternatives that make the compound are the correct choices .
29 One of the assumptions that underlies a traditional approach to the role of the tutor is the idea that more effort , direction , control , leadership , motivation and so on by the tutor is better .
30 In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls .
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