Example sentences of "[conj] so [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This polarisation causes the debate to stall , but in a world where unemployment is unlikely to fall fast or far and where so much work needs doing the idea may be worth exploring further . |
| 2 | His is just one example of the new enterprises supplying fish to shops or restaurants that cut out Billingsgate market ; for they also cut out the 25 per cent or so that trading through the market adds to the cost of fish . |
| 3 | What precisely he did with himself all day long she never could fathom , but he was not in her company above two hours or so each day . |
| 4 | ‘ Assuming some progress in resolving the debt crisis , ’ Mr Grant says , ‘ then even a 5 per cent or a 10 per cent diversion of military spending could provide the additional $50 billion or so each year which is needed to end absolute poverty on the planet within the next 10 years . ’ |
| 5 | You could then include a breeding pond ( occupied for only a fortnight or so each year ) . |
| 6 | He returned home only for a week or so each month and spent most of his time in his bathroom , which contained a colour television , telephones and a fully stocked cocktail bar . |
| 7 | But sometimes it will have no effect on fitness , or so little effect that its fate is decided by chance and not by selection . |
| 8 | In their 1958 diet ( which did not yet include so many top feature films or so much news ) , men gave their highest preferences to sport , plays , news , travel , variety , documentaries , westerns and current affairs , and their lowest to serious music , religion and science . |
| 9 | Never before has there been so much concern with health or so much fear about health . |
| 10 | Cos that 's how you measure jobs when you in erm When you 're sort of managing projects or something or so many man hours to build this and then so many man hours to do this and then so many man hours to do that . |
| 11 | All three economies are forecast to grow by 2.5% or so this year . |
| 12 | The fact that so many insurance products contain a substantial savings element has brought them within the scope of the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 13 | When you think how many wonderful colours , shapes and sizes of bedding plants there are , is n't it surprising that so many colour schemes are unoriginal ? |
| 14 | Allied spokesmen make light of the fact that so many enemy aircraft remain intact . |
| 15 | It would appear to be a relatively recent phenomenon in the CAB that so many client problems seem insoluble . |
| 16 | It is unlikely that so much work would have gone into the construction of trackways for just casual hunting visits into the marshes . |
| 17 | Johnson declared himself in favour of such prescribed succession : ‘ His opinion was that so much land should be entailed as that families should never fall into contempt , and as much left free as to give them all the advantages in case of any emergency . ’ |
| 18 | How canst thou tell people that sin is such a thing , and that so much misery is upon them and before them and be no more affected with it ? |
| 19 | But it is possible that so much competence could be transferred from the member states to the Community that member states would lose their status as sovereign states ’ . |
| 20 | It is particularly pleasing that so much thought and work by the QC team should generate such enthusiasm from all who saw the results . |
| 21 | Frankly , I find ii amazing that so much progress has already been made in support of special needs and integration into normal schools without resources from central government . |
| 22 | that 's why it 's crazy you see it , oh , it does n't make sense that so much emphasis is put on floor area if er less emphasis is put on floor area and more on children |
| 23 | It is bad that so much bias should be shewn , but it is , I suppose , inevitable . |
| 24 | It is partly because of this early extensive experience of stories that so much writing in primary schools is in story form . |
| 25 | It is clearly unfair that so much tax in the Third World falls on the backs of those least able to pay . |
| 26 | It did not matter that so much plant and machinery , and so many factories , were destroyed in the war , because the skills of the people were not destroyed ; they remained , to recreate the industrial strength which we once again admire and respect . |
| 27 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 28 | The originality and importance of Freud 's sociology lies in the fact that he never leaves the human body out of account in the way that so much sociology , both before and since his work , seems to aim to do . |
| 29 | The lasting impression of last week 's London International Book Fair , to an antipodean publisher and book marketer who was not emotionally or financially involved in proceedings , was the niggling worry that so much time , money and energy is poured into books that the world does n't need or — if the buzzing basement gathering of remainder specialists is a useful gauge — actually want either . |
| 30 | Perhaps the fact that so much time , money and paper has had to be spent on selling the education reforms , and that so few are beating a path to the doors of Rathgael House , suggests that they ‘ ai n't got much of a mousetrap ’ ! |