Example sentences of "[conj] so the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last twenty years or so the regulating authorities of several States have recognised that there can be significant value in recording , and preferably investigating , the cause of near accidents . |
| 2 | It would be more surprising if it were otherwise — or so the new novel seems to tell , or remind . |
| 3 | I understand John McGrath 's sentiments but over the last decade or so the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for . ’ |
| 4 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 5 | Or so the medical propaganda would have you believe . |
| 6 | After a mile or so the Old Man is reached , just south and west of the actual Point Of Stoer ( 25 minutes ) . |
| 7 | Night fell , the candle flames flickered out and the ghosts of the dead came back to their resting place ( or so the old wives say ) , somewhere sacred , a fitting protection against the assaults of the demons . |
| 8 | Angry young Tamils had started their terrorist movements , among them the Tamil Tigers , and so the terrible cycle of destruction and retribution began . |
| 9 | In the Laming list , theses may be listed under more than one heading , and so the total figures represent the total numbers of sub-discipline headings assigned to Scottish theses , rather than the numbers of theses . |
| 10 | As winter really begins to set in , flowers are not the most obvious things to look for , and so the curious botanist turns to related interests . |
| 11 | And so the poor man had been obliged to die in as Christian a manner as possible in the arms of the atheistical Magistrate who had , of course , listened without the least sympathy to Mr Bradley 's last pious ejaculations , impatiently muttering : " Yes , yes , to be sure , do n't worry about it , " as poor Mr Bradley , looking up into that last , glaring , free-thinking , diabolical , ginger sunset of the Magistrate 's whiskers , commended his soul to God . |
| 12 | Johnson tushed , and so the other clergyman , Mr Grant ( being well-bred ) , said the prayers , evoking a comment from their distinguished visitor who upbraided him just a little for not including the Lord 's Prayer . |
| 13 | In large takeovers the VAT involved can often run into millions of pounds and so the new rules will add a considerable cost to corporate acquisitions and battles . |
| 14 | He said nothing but ‘ te-total ’ would satisfy him , and so the Teetotal Movement was born . |
| 15 | And so the mutual help and support which should have typified Christian brothers became a stick which the Western church used in the coming crusade to beat Orthodox and infidel alike . |
| 16 | But for many parts of Orkney this new service would be years away in reaching them and so the familiar thump thump thump of that diesel statomatic generator filled the air . |
| 17 | The odds ratio was heterogeneous among studies ( Q =78.79 , df=57 ; p=0.03 ) and so the pooled odds ratio was calculated by a random effects method . |
| 18 | In the end they agreed that it was a fair way of sharing the inheritance , and so the legal steps were taken to transfer equal shares to all of us . |
| 19 | The reader will have guessed , no doubt , that the quest was unsuccessful , and so the final section will suggest an operative model with practical implications for community work practitioners and researchers . |
| 20 | Frankie was their triumph and so the final point of their story was n't its ‘ outrage ’ but its cosiness . |
| 21 | She had gone from Tallis 's life , then , and so the final link with Wynne-Jones was severed . |
| 22 | Both imaginary integrands in this expression are odd functions of ο and so the corresponding integrals between and are zero . |
| 23 | In this case the only difference between the regions would be their initial configurations and so the strong anthropic principle would reduce to the weak one . |
| 24 | ‘ It is customary to wish good luck to new enterprises but , in this case , I am sure that the team worked very hard to make sure that luck had no part to play in the implementation and so the good wishes would have been redundant , ’ said Alan . |
| 25 | Such processes will be temperature-and-time-dependent and so the uniform stress assumption would be expected to fail at low temperatures and the composite elastic moduli to approach the ( Voigt ) upper-bound values . |
| 26 | Culture responds to its environment , and so the recent murders of young African Americans who transgressed New York City 's virtual apartheid , provoked creative protest . |
| 27 | Still , in reality no black hole would be like this ideal : stars spin on their axes , and so the black holes they produce can be expected to do likewise . |
| 28 | Light , of course , is the fastest thing in the universe , and so the collapsed star has cut itself off . |
| 29 | With reference to figure 10.8(a) , application of Kirchhoff 's voltage law to the input circuit yields But and so the closed-loop gain is in accordance with equation ( 10.26 ) . |
| 30 | That is to say , W is from ten thousand to a million times higher than G and so the critical crack length is longer in direct proportion . |