Example sentences of "[conj] so [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of its 100 or so Ph.D graduates hold senior posts in academia and industry , both in the UK and overseas . |
| 2 | Later in the war they built 1,135 Mosquitos , before going on to produce fifty or so Fox Moths — and then their own indigenous designs after the conflict ceased . |
| 3 | Arthur and his knights rode here , or so Master Hopkins told us . |
| 4 | Or so Great-Aunt Alicia had believed . |
| 5 | Or so John-William Dallam 's lawyers had made clear to him when he had signed the marriage-contract a week ago , telling him what his allowance was to be , what it was meant to cover , by how much he could overdraw , to whom he would be answerable if his affairs fell into disarray , making it all sound more like an application for employment than a romance . |
| 6 | There was lots of time before he was due to meet Amaranth Wilikins for lunch at the Black Chapati , ‘ where English eccentricity adopts oriental exoticism to produce something special ’ , or so Jonathan Meades in The Times had said . |
| 7 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 8 | 130 beta NT copies are now with UK corporates , a further 2,500 will be delivered this month : at least 10% of the 45,000 or so NT developer kits shipped worldwide have landed in the UK . |
| 9 | The demand-pull , or so Mr Waigel hoped , was the Christian Social Union , of which he is president . |
| 10 | Or so Miss Philimore said . ’ |
| 11 | And so Mrs Zamzam 's family , perhaps irrevocably split by nationalities , was living only 15 miles apart , divided by the Israeli–Lebanese frontier . |
| 12 | And so Tamara Dobson became Cleopatra Jones , CIA narco queen supreme , as Millie Jackson and Joe Simon warbled soulfully amid punch-ups , and Pam Grier went into the castration industry as Foxy Brown , with Willie Hutch again offering street-sound support . |
| 13 | With all the confidence of youth , he had handbills printed that T. Sparks would be opening a Gentlemen 's Hairdressing Saloon at Number so and so North Street . |
| 14 | and so Clement Freud said , not to him but now on this programme this morning , that 's the first time I 've ever been de-grandfathered |
| 15 | The most zealous founders of the BFASS in 1839 were amongst those who had worked hardest to revitalise the local society network in the mid-1830s and so Joseph Sturge , John Scoble and the Quaker banker George Alexander toured areas of the country in 1839–40 to give the new national body the support of auxiliaries consciously orientated to universal abolition . |
| 16 | And so Felicity Paiva arrived in Oxford , England . |
| 17 | It 's tuesday and so Dr Kathleen Long 's here with us for an open surgery . |
| 18 | Amanda Wright ( Tipton ) , winner of the women 's race for the past two years who set a new course record last year , will not be defending her title and so Cardiff veteran Liz Hughes looks like starting as favourite . |
| 19 | I thought , ‘ If that 's good enough for Shakespeare , it 's good enough for me ’ , and so King Rat starts , ‘ I 'm going to get that bloody bastard if it 's the last thing I do in my life . ’ |
| 20 | Sarah complained that she was ‘ bored ’ and so Miss Rudge told her to pack her bags and leave for a term . |
| 21 | ‘ And so Miss Abbot , ’ Mr Renfrew said , taking off his spectacles and folding them neatly , ‘ that is the sum of things . ’ |
| 22 | But further heroics in extra time were beyond their weary limbs and so Stuart Pearce , the Forest captain required by England for next week 's World Cup tie in Poland , completed a victorious return from injury . |
| 23 | And so Derek Dooley went to Sheffield Wednesday at seventeen and a half , his local team , until a clash with an advancing goalkeeper forced the immediate amputation of his leg in February 1953 . |
| 24 | However , Landsat 's imaging instruments are capable of showing finer detail of surface features than are the instruments onboard the NOAA satellites , and so Landsat images are used in studies of agricultural crops , coastal sediment patterns and other fields in which high resolution is required . |
| 25 | Kempton usually rode the horse himself ( and had done so ) three weeks before the Liverpool race when Foinavon was last in the Cheltenham Gold Cup — at 500–1 — behind Woodland Venture ) , but his normal riding weight of ten stone ten pounds was way above Foinavon 's Grand National mark of ten stone , and so John Buckingham was engaged for his first ride in the great Liverpool race . |
| 26 | The obvious choice of the opposition was the Count Palatine Henry , a Welf , but he was on crusade and so Duke Bernard of Saxony was considered and elected . |
| 27 | And so Liz Headleand was born , out of guilt , out of chance , out of sexual felicity and complicity , out of ambition , and Liz Lintot passed away , as Sebastian Manning and Naomi Headleand had passed away . |
| 28 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 29 | In 1985 it was decided to move the engine to a Great Western line and so Kinlet Hall arrived at Toddington . |
| 30 | And so Edward Heath was sent round in January 1644 , all the houses in St Aldate 's to find out how many people were in them to see if there was any more room . |