Example sentences of "[coord] so [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down on Eagle Creek a hundred or so lit craft bob decoratively like candles in a Japanese water bowl . |
| 2 | Having said that I mean I think there there has been obviously some concern about some security measures , other than terrorist or so called terrorist threats in relation to staff personal security in the building which is why we 've actually moved towards more one stop per section area so there are limits to where the public are actually free to move around the building . |
| 3 | But experts warned computer users that Friday 13th viruses are only a tiny proportion of the 30 or so known types of virus which exist , and that they would be wise to keep taking precautions . |
| 4 | Under pressure from the Serbian government , and sometimes violent attack by the 10,000 or so armed Serb toughs in the province , up to 100,000 people may have left Kosovo in the past couple of years . |
| 5 | He bluntly rejected not only the demands of the Rada but also the claims of Ukrainian nationalism ( and so contradicted Party Policy : ) |
| 6 | He also organised special print runs with publishers of such relatively slow-selling classic titles as A P Herbert 's Uncommon Law and Hilaire Belloc 's Cautionary Tales , and so enabled publishers to keep otherwise uneconomic editions in print . |
| 7 | A leading opponent of disestablishment , Bishop A. G. Edwards of St Asaph [ q.v. ] , later wrote of Rendel that he ‘ read the Welsh character in its strength and weakness ’ , and so achieved unity and discipline within the Welsh party . |
| 8 | The health group started to challenge leading politicians from all the political parties and so called experts in the medical field , and it was one of the most frightening experiences of my life . |
| 9 | Since times are hard in the science job markets and so called whistleblowers tend to be regarded as troublemakers rather than public spirited heroes , these depredations against scientific integrity would probably have remained hidden in the absence of the scandals at the EPA . |
| 10 | Police have been battling against joyriders and so called hotters in Oxford for over two years . |
| 11 | He was not primarily a bacteriologist , and instead of using the standard criterion of survival of the organism , growth in culture , he measured the uptake of oxygen by the cultivated organisms over short periods and so obtained results more quickly . |
| 12 | He lied about his address and so received methadone on a maintenance basis . |
| 13 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 14 | It contributed to the newspaper both in terms of content and also in terms of much-needed revenue and so helped newspapers in their struggles to survive . |
| 15 | One favourite Victorian theme was that of the dying gipsy child , who at the last hour was found by Christian children and so found salvation . |
| 16 | Mr Hermann Axen , the former politburo member responsible for foreign policy , is in Moscow for an eye operation and so avoided arrest . |