Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] so the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 2 | However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again . |
| 3 | It was a simple , but very pertinent observation and re-emphasised that over the last 18 months or so the All Blacks have been steadily squeezed in the nutcracker of their own ambition . |
| 4 | Young children have very different temperaments and so the style of management of one child may not suit another . |
| 5 | The Moot is close enough to the mountains to suffer occasional raids by Night Goblins and so the Halflings maintain a vigilant force of border guards and watchmen who double as warriors in time of war . |
| 6 | Many parents comment that their child did the complete opposite of what was asked for several months and so the parents learned to say the opposite of what they wanted , for example , ‘ I really do n't want you to put your pyjamas on now ’ , or ‘ I do n't think you can eat all of that food ’ . |
| 7 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 8 | There were no significant differences in before treatment juice or plasma results between patients drawn from the two trials and so the two datasets were combined to increase the power of the study . |
| 9 | He says It has all the ingredients that kids want jeopardy , death and destruction but it also has people saving lives and so the parents like it and that is why it has been so popular . |
| 10 | Further , and most importantly , coaxial cable has a relatively small bandwidth , which limits the range of radio frequencies and so the number of channels that it can carry . |
| 11 | Once this ranking process has taken place , respective managers sends their ranked packages to their superiors and so the process continues upwards through the hierarchy of the organization . |
| 12 | They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians , but fortunately , they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them , sending the mobs scurrying out of their way . |
| 13 | Any new module needs to have a distinct identity and market — SCOTVEC feels that it would be confusing to employers to have a proliferation of modules and titles and so the Catalogue sub-committee will not accept a new proposal if it thinks that the same outcomes can be achieved by suitable fleshing-out of an existing module . |
| 14 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 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 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They also point out that during the past five years or so the proportion of part-time students has remained roughly constant at about one-third of the total . |
| 19 | For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation . |
| 20 | It is a waste of skills , demeaning to the status of the individual and a deterrent to the recruitment of high quality entrants or so the argument goes . |
| 21 | Roman medallions were made in small quantities and so the die would be likely to survive , while at Dalisandos no coinage was made in the intervening years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The equilibrium position is between the two separate phase equilibrium positions and so the rate of change of flux linkages with rotor position is relatively large . |
| 24 | Er bearing in mind they 've also got eight thousand pounds of earnings and so the eight thousand pounds of earnings they 've got to use that up er savings , sorry , savings not earnings er before they can actually get means tested erm and there 's a s a sliding scale between three thousand and there . |
| 25 | Napoleon III 's objections to Montpensier were well known in European diplomatic circles and so the candidature was unlikely to find favour with the other governments , as was indeed the case — with one exception . |
| 26 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 27 | For very distant objects these stars themselves are too faint to be visible , but if you look at clusters of galaxies , we find that the very brightest galaxy in a cluster is the same brightness in all clusters and so the fainter it looks to us the further away the cluster of galaxies must be . |
| 28 | No er allegations of erm concerning the correct , his driving er , are made by the pro prosecution er as a result of the incident but er , as a result of the officer 's enquiries er , it came to light that Mr was er , in breach of some of the er , other regulations regarding road uses and so the summonses which are to deal with this morning have er have been issued against him . |
| 29 | She had forgotten to bring her gloves and so the hand that she thrust out to break her fall sank into the cold , muddy turf . |
| 30 | As prices rise , the value of transactions rises and so the demand for money rises . |