Example sentences of "[conj] so [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a day or so the goods had been divided between the landlord and Mahmoud and removed from the premises . |
| 2 | Or so the girls from the postroom told me later . |
| 3 | Or so the stories went , and excellent publicity they proved to be . |
| 4 | Or so the organisers would have you think . |
| 5 | Emma : Too clever by half , Or so the critics said , week in , week out . |
| 6 | ‘ Pigs can fly already , or so the druggies think when they see the police helicopters . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The Finns are seeing them off , or so the papers say . ’ |
| 8 | IT will solve France 's problems , protect the nation from cultural invasion and give the man in the street a new cultural joie de vivre — or so the planners say . |
| 9 | After an hour or so the Carpettes still linger in the parking lot as the coach doors slam shut . |
| 10 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 11 | Or so the scriptures tell us . |
| 12 | That , together with the 20 per cent or so the socialists were hoping to pick up , plus a few more votes taken from the Communists and the Centrists , could have made a respectably sized movement . |
| 13 | After a mile or so the banks closed in and the gradient increased … |
| 14 | Or so the medics say . ’ |
| 15 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 16 | Within a day or so the newcomers have appointments fixed with social security to get some money and when it looks as if they 're staying , negotiations begin with schools to admit their children . |
| 17 | Worse , the story is provably false : the decree ( ML 69 = Fornara 136 ) which enacted the raising of the tribute in 425 was moved by Thoudippos — who we know from Isaios ( ix ) was Kleon 's own son-in-law and so a philos . |
| 18 | Analysis of the cause of these problems indicates that solutions lie in changes in human organization and so no attempts have been made yet to automate the allocation of rooms to classes . |
| 19 | This naturally reduces their attraction for each other and so the forces holding the cell wall together laterally are diminished and the cell swells . |
| 20 | In most cases a man earning £300 per week would be expected to spend more than the man earning £100 per week , and so the transactions demand should be larger for the former . |
| 21 | Certainly there appears to be some sense in restricting any changes in the law of incest so that it continues to be an offence for a parent or grandparent to have sexual relations with a child aged 16 or 17 , because children of that age are often dependent and living at home , and so the conditions for exploitation are still present at that age . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , this provided for the possibility of voluntary unemployment , an anathema to the capitalist class , and so the conditions under which men 's claims to maintenance from the state were met were such as to weaken male work incentives as little as possible , and ideally to discourage men from making a claim at all , except in the direst circumstances . |
| 23 | And so the conditions for the equality always to hold can be written : |
| 24 | Practical fusion needs a combination of high temperature — to hurl the nuclei together against their electrical repulsion — and/or pressure , so that there is a greater density of them and so the chances of bumping rather than missing are increased . |
| 25 | About fifty years ago the price of sugar increased , and so the farmers changed from turnips as a fodder crop to sugarbeet . |
| 26 | With much cloud , mist and rain , and little sunshine , cereal crops seldom ripen and so the farmers avoid planting them . |
| 27 | I 'm sure that a picture is worth a thousand words , and so the screenshots can probably tell you much more than I have space for . |
| 28 | Food is to be found on the farmland all around and so the herds help themselves . |
| 29 | Of course they could n't all be allowed to hide behind the columns of the nave or squat upon the font , and so the stewards took down the barriers and let them flood into my side . |
| 30 | Obviously one can not re-use plants for later measurement by the other two systems and so the graphs obtained have fewer points than the earlier ones . |