Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] so [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 2 | The experiment with actinomycin suggests that for the first 3 hours or so LTP does not depend on gene transcription . |
| 3 | Not all expatriates receive company cars and so employers may provide car loans or make payment towards the cost of shipping an employee 's car from home . |
| 4 | She also believes that smoking , nakedness , periods and breasts are all sins and so Carrie is repressed . |
| 5 | Add to this the copyright problems — there will be no retrospective recognition of copyright for foreign books and so back-lists will remain unprotected — and it is easy to see why so many publishers simply sigh and pass on . |
| 6 | The relevance of the remedy in public law is that public bodies can commit private law wrongs and so damages is a remedy available against public bodies . |
| 7 | but , I ca n't see him authorising bank holiday workings and so bank holiday exhibitions are almost a thing of the past . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 10 | Visually handicapped people sometimes experience difficulty in distinguishing similar products and so Tesco has introduced braille where possible on products like household cleaners . |
| 11 | For a couple of days or so England were actually in the match . |
| 12 | But he did not isolate or identify the substance , and for 12 years or so con fined his work to the use of crude extracts in selective culture media . |
| 13 | For the past 10 years or so ME have made all their fleece garments from material mainly sourced form the Far East . |
| 14 | Like other fair-minded people , we wanted to see more help given to these parents and their children ; and it was plain that over the next ten years or so Parliament would be doing that , and our scheme would be one of the instruments used for that purpose . |
| 15 | They have not been under the same review process as pension funds where every three years or so managers are changing . |
| 16 | During the course of the last hundred years or so educationists have progressively sold out to those who have imposed upon the education system the responsibility for attesting attainment and selecting suitable candidates . |
| 17 | This is a shame in a book so rich in ideas and so virtuoso in its handling of specialist terminology . |
| 18 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 19 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 20 | Seven of them use wheelchairs and so staff need to raise an extra £4,000 so twelve of them can accompany the residents , who are paying their own way . |
| 21 | At the same time the private sector and foreign capital lose confidence in the ability of the government to manage its affairs and so people prefer not to invest but take funds out of the country . |
| 22 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |
| 23 | The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
| 24 | The electric field of the radiation can interact with these charges and so radiation can be absorbed , as in common salt . |
| 25 | Local education authorities would be able to advise , for instance , on legal requirements and so governors would be more likely to avoid the possibility of having to appear before industrial-tribunal hearings . |
| 26 | The first and foremost is natural selection ; individuals that are particularly well-adapted to their environment reproduce more than their fellows and so copies of their genes become more common . |
| 27 | Deciduous trees , like this beech , lose a lot of water through their leaves and so water loss is reduced by shedding them . |
| 28 | By contrast , the consequences and so competences , and hence the adequacies or inadequacies , of natural selection , especially for long-run effects , were practically impossible to decide , at least for a finite intellect ; although the young Darwin himself could consistently suppose that God in choosing this means for adapting life to a changing earth had foreseen all its consequences . |
| 29 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 30 | Some visits could not be done with students and so work had to be reorganised . |