Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | A year or so later the guitars that really killed the Levin came in — the first flat-top Yamaha acoustics . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The main problem is that so far the central battle seems unevenly pitched . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Large volume users , like British Steel and ICI , have complained that so far the market mechanism has not proved effective |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The OR Staff are quite rightly intent on seeking battle-winning performance ; the scientists and technologists enjoy and rise to the challenge ; and so both the principal groups of participants in equipment development are pushing in the same direction without an effective countervailing force . |
| 22 | G. On the western lowlands Chester ( 58 000 people ) is a central place where the Romans and the Normans defended what was once the lowest bridging point over the River Dee and so also the route into northern Wales . |
| 23 | But as he progressed on into East Prussia , towards Tannenberg , the full impact and consequence of the Depression and partition were borne upon him , and so also the full potential of the Nazi Party was impressed upon him . |
| 24 | He can give no better value than to state the truth as he sees it , clearly and eloquently. this should be the aim of the painter and so also the ultimate aim of a commissioned work . |
| 25 | Corinne Gotch , Booksellers Association marketing executive and NBS committee member , commented : ‘ Fewer booksellers are taking part , and so clearly the sale needs to be re-examined from both a bookselling and publishing point of view to see what can be cone to encourage greater participation . ’ |
| 26 | Alternatively the mother may not offer the food quickly enough and so eventually the child loses concentration and interest . |
| 27 | Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped . |
| 28 | Er we said last week that the on the only , the only real way that the peasants were gon na er mobilize was if they , they thought that they could actually win and so surely the violence would have been a means of saying we 're a credible force to be reckoned with |
| 29 | And so therefore the local elections were seen as a pointer to the general elections . |
| 30 | Well I would n't be here because a horse was used for a toxin to provide the anti-toxin for diphtheria whe , in my days when I was younger there was no toxins as such , vaccination as such and so therefore the horses were used for research to provide the anti-toxins . |