Example sentences of "[conj] so [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 2 | Some , including Portland , Oregon , charge $1 or so to recycle a tree . |
| 3 | According to market researchers the Gartner Group , it costs a company an astonishing £19,500 or so to run a single personal computer over a five-year period . |
| 4 | The Land Rover was waiting , but it took a minute or so to find a driver . |
| 5 | My advice to agencies : send someone out with a quid or so to buy a magazine before you advertise in it ; or better still , have those editorial folk over for a Gordon 's & Tonic . . . . |
| 6 | This timing gives some idea of how long their travelling habitually took : still in a post-chaise , and allowing an hour , say , for breakfast , they required seven hours or so to travel a distance of about twenty-eight miles . |
| 7 | We are thinking about those children who , whatever their socio-economic background , have parents who have the time , or somehow make the time , to talk with them , to read to them , to read for themselves , and so to offer an example . |
| 8 | When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France . |
| 9 | When the eight- and ten-year-olds did produce causal connectives , they used them in a way appropriate to the deductive mode , by using because to introduce evidence and so to introduce a conclusion . |
| 10 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 11 | It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other . |
| 12 | It is important to recognise these natural reactions and their effect on groundwater quality , and so to establish a baseline against which contamination can be measured . |