Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty metres or so up the slope , she began to waver and looked ready to collapse again . |
| 2 | A yard or so up the line from the bomb a swivel or ring is tied in as a back stop . |
| 3 | Lakewood guitars are designed by one Martin Seeliger , and they 're built at the rate of about twenty-five per week in a town called Geissen in Germany , an hour or so up the autobahn from Frankfurt . |
| 4 | If during the waggle the clubhead feels to be not at the end of the shaft but an inch or so up the shaft , in a waggle you would never be able to feel the exact position of the head coming into impact . |
| 5 | He had moved a mile or so up the valley to live at Bullhouse Lodge and work at the nearby corn mill . |
| 6 | Until ten years or so ago a bundle of similar envelopes had lain in a drawer of her desk ; one day in a fit of vigour she had torn them up and thrown them away . |
| 7 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 8 | Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne . |
| 9 | A week or so later a Miss Symes walked up the drive with two whippets at heel . |
| 10 | A year or so later the guitars that really killed the Levin came in — the first flat-top Yamaha acoustics . |
| 11 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 12 | A week or so later the Italian experts returned the recorder to the magistrate and told him they were unable to read the recorded information . |
| 13 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 14 | Although so far no one has succeeded in interpreting the Etruscan language we can fully appreciate their sculpture , painting and craftsmanship . |
| 15 | They both were astonished that so far no indication of trouble had come from the town common ; but reckoned that it would not be long now before it did , for a few escapers from the castle had been glimpsed running in that direction . |
| 16 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 17 | Heat from stronger lighting could be a problem , but it seems that so far the normal air conditioning has been able to cope and no abnormal discomfort has been experienced . |
| 18 | Before moving on to make use of the database , it was necessary to assess whether or not the data itself was valid for the organisation being studied , bearing in mind that so far the exercise had been a systems-thinking one , rather than a study of what was happening in practice . |
| 19 | The main problem is that so far the central battle seems unevenly pitched . |
| 20 | We can conclude that so far the law 's quest to subject the power conferred on corporate managers to controls to prevent it from being exercised arbitrarily has not been successful . |
| 21 | Large volume users , like British Steel and ICI , have complained that so far the market mechanism has not proved effective |
| 22 | Her only regret was that Dr Neil did not buy the Clarion Cry so that so far the only piece of her work which she had seen in print was the one which she had written before she had arrived in the East End . |
| 23 | Douglas Scott , the region 's senior corporate advisor , said that so far the council has concentrated on upping the region 's profile in Brussels and honing its statistical case . |
| 24 | Since the progress zone 's existence is dependent on a signal from the ridge , removal of the ridge results in the disappearance of the progress zone and so effectively the clock in the cells is stopped permanently . |
| 25 | In order to buy the oil off us , they had to pay sterling and so hence the demand for sterling goes up and suddenly we were viewed as a very rich economy . |
| 26 | A score of over 70 can be taken to imply an already-advanced economy , and so not a particularly favourable climate for new investment . |
| 27 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 28 | It is directed by James Cameron , though , and so primarily a first-rate action picture . |
| 29 | It is directed by James Cameron , though , and so primarily a first-rate action picture . |
| 30 | Other organisms show evidence for muscular activity and so presumably a nervous system , as well as the inferred presence of a circulatory system . |