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

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1 It has often provided dates where there was previously no method of dating available at all , and for many periods , accuracy to the nearest century or so is far better than produced by previous dating methods .
2 An assessment of those walls , banks and groynes , published last year by the Department of the Environment , found that ‘ many go back to the 19th century and so , not withstanding that over £2 million per year is spent by the district councils on maintenance , heavy expenditure on renewals continues to be needed ’ .
3 However , it is questionable whether the doors of the family home should be closed to the criminal law when so many offences of wife-battering , child battering , and sexual abuse of wives and children seem to go on behind them .
4 Where an applicant voluntarily left accommodation but had then acquired temporary accommodation , the courts interpreted the legislation so as to entitle the local authority to relate back to the first accommodation and so to find that he was intentionally homeless .
5 THE retinal fovea , which corresponds to the central degree or so of vision , is spatially over-represented in the visual cortex .
6 ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ .
7 We then proceed to the third objective and so on and continue until all objectives have been considered .
8 After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power .
9 Each step command is issued only when the motor has responded satisfactorily to the previous command and so there is no possibility of the motor losing synchronism .
10 Up to the sixteenth century or so , most people in Britain lived in the countryside .
11 You could also play this with team members at both ends of the room so that Brownies only have to run one length and pass it on to the next Brownie and so on .
12 Unfortunately most of what we know about Coleman is related to the last decade or so of his life .
13 Well , it had been , up to the last half-hour or so .
14 The eclecticism of the mid-nineteenth-century architects was of two types : either they applied different styles to different buildings , as did Burn or the Barrys , or they applied motifs derived from different styles to the same building and so produced an original design .
15 The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B.
16 As far as I was concerned , that merely represented a different path to the same goal and so on 22 June I told the House of Commons that rail electrification was going ahead .
17 In the other response the stepping rate is approximately equal to the natural frequency and so the rotor is at the equilibrium position with a positive velocity at the end of the first step .
18 Now move to the next point and join it up to every other point and so on until your pattern is complete .
19 Hodge did not deem Rhee essential to a future government but so long as he remained one of the few nationally known leaders , his cooperation was required .
20 Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem .
21 The company notes that the relocation exercise was carried out without the help of an independent specialist relocation company which may have been able to ease staffs ' fears about moving to a new area and so possibly improve on the 50 per cent retention rate .
22 I feel I 've come to a full stop and so does Toby .
23 This is the first time this major title has gone to a coloured paddler and so is of great significance to those who think that canoeing is a whites-only sport .
24 Each sub-fund is indexed to a local market and so should perform exactly in line with it .
25 It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore .
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