Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these days of dwindling research funds and increased competition , what better way of disposing of rivals than by characterising papers or proposals as so much chaff ? |
| 2 | The general rule is that a battery is committed where a person touches or strikes another , grabs hold of their sleeve or lapels and so on , without implied or express permission . |
| 3 | Assigns acquire their meaning through association with other signs or words and so are more complicated than signs , which derive their meaning from the direct experience of the individual ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 4 | List the fittings which are being included in the sale ; these are usually items fixed to the walls such as kitchen units , mirrors , light fittings , cupboard units and , of course , any curtains or carpets and so on . |
| 5 | People and they 're not only preachers or teachers or so on |
| 6 | Patient numbers and mortality fail to take into account the influences of different demographic groups or diagnoses and so these simple data are being abandoned for more complex assessments that generate an overall score and tell us something about how ill the patient is . |
| 7 | erm There 's not much opportunity for job advancement , there are fewer opportunities to rise up the scale and become Readers or Professors and so on . |
| 8 | The aim of the new welfare authorities was to provide homes rather than institutions and so private houses were acquired and converted and then modern purpose-built homes were constructed . |
| 9 | A spectacular programme of events , displays , demonstrations and activities and so on and so forth . |
| 10 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 11 | His stress on music 's ‘ social content ’ meant that he could never accept the tendency of positivist music sociology to treat genres , styles and forms as so much freely-existing data . |
| 12 | This meat has been grazed on the summer grass and herbs and so develops a more complex flavour , darker colour and , while remaining tender , a slightly coarser texture . |
| 13 | ‘ England , of course , and the southeast , ’ and it goes on to give you the dates , the times , the places and contacts and so forth . |
| 14 | But it is precisely the sort of presupposition which anthropologists should challenge , allowing , as it does , so little place for a social construction of knowledge and values and so much for ( unexplained ) ‘ human nature ’ . |
| 15 | Any new module needs to have a distinct identity and market — SCOTVEC feels that it would be confusing to employers to have a proliferation of modules and titles and so the Catalogue sub-committee will not accept a new proposal if it thinks that the same outcomes can be achieved by suitable fleshing-out of an existing module . |
| 16 | and plans and so on . |
| 17 | The Football Supporters Association have set out on a project to democratise the game , taking control of the clubs and institutions that so ruthlessly exploit their support . |
| 18 | He came from the er amongst other things Inland Revenue and er very welcome addition to staff and er has quite a , a good grasp of many er sort of national bodies and institutions and so on and is very helpful , and is settling in very well and well-liked . |
| 19 | He moved around France quite a lot , and not only was he a soldier , but he was writing comic operas and operas , and musicals and so on , and some of his work was pro produced and performed at the Opera Comic , in in France . |
| 20 | No , no no , no I said to her if we could just know , cos er , moving bodies and cars and so on , she probably understands but she said as soon as you see a doctor out here , speak to them and , and then we can erm , but they may know somebody |
| 21 | So we always have to lay in stores that will last us a month or six weeks — a sack , or perhaps two , of flour , and groceries and so on . |
| 22 | So there 's no water shortage as such , sometimes you get the water problems when you get out in the sticks somewhere you 'll , you , you do have problems , but all fire officers are trained to search their areas and have special cards er which they 've done their research on , where the water supplies are , like ponds and lakes and so on , and that information is readily available when they turn out these areas so that a fire crew going out there , your nearest water supply is a pond at and certain area and they 've got that you see . |
| 23 | Esmerelda never did show up ; nobody saw her after me , as far as Diggs ' enquiries of trawlers and drilling-rigs and so on could show . |
| 24 | But an awful lot of things we can control by volunt voluntary movement , our arms and legs and so on , and we can control our thoughts . |
| 25 | Firstly because editors and journalists and so forth get an awful lot of them , and do n't have time to pore over them , and secondly because they pick them up , they sort of come in , they look at it and say , ‘ I ca n't see how I can use this . ’ |
| 26 | This chapter includes a selection of quotations for the most common subjects you are likely to want to cover : love , marriage , weddings , family , work and hobbies and so on . |
| 27 | It seems that children have not yet absorbed the fears , doubts and confusions that so often beset us as adults . |
| 28 | The Portuguese melodies were pretty Moorish and strange , but they introduced the Hawaiians to ideas like fixed melodies , and keys and so forth . |
| 29 | None of the characters he meets comes alive ( designer Wayne Cherry is the nearest ) , and the dramatic feel for the politicking , pressures and personal fears and obsessions that so enlivened Kidder 's book is lacking . |
| 30 | Legend has it that Oliver Cromwell on his way to lay siege to Middleton Hall during the Civil War found the old packhorse bridge too narrow for his cannons and wagons and so had the bridge widened . |