Example sentences of "[coord] so [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She can barely move in her Gloucestershire home for the 200 or so ticking treasures jostling for space on the walls , mantelpieces and floors — anywhere where there 's a minute space to be had . |
| 2 | Half the active substances used for rheumatic conditions also appear in the 100 or so painkilling preparations available . |
| 3 | Steadily , then , over the two years or so following Herr Bremann 's death , his lordship , together with Sir David Cardinal , who became his closest ally during that time , succeeded in gathering together a broad alliance of figures who shared the conviction that the situation in Germany should not be allowed to persist . |
| 4 | Intended to reach the parts of the population museums do not easily reach , this show in fact attracted a derisory 9000 or so paying visitors in the two months that it was open from 16 November last , despite more coverage on TV than most exhibitions . |
| 5 | Alternatively , the public may simply have become more sensitised to crime , through media and press reports or the Government 's crime prevention publicity , and so believing crime to be on the increase they are more likely to report offences leading to a rise in recorded crime which will lead to further media attention and so on in a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ . |
| 6 | However , by the early 1980s some LEAs began to adopt more prescriptive approaches , insisting on school policies fostering racial equality within given time limits ( e.g. ILEA , Brent ) , prescribing aspects of headteacher behaviour to ethnic minority parents ( e.g. Bradford ) , making certain forms of racist behaviour a disciplinary offence ( e.g. Manchester ) or establishing central mechanisms to decide upon school suspensions and so removing power from Heads and Governors ( e.g. Birmingham ) . |
| 7 | The child needs to be motivated and so receiving rewards for going to the lavatory when reminded or for staying dry can be an incentive for the younger child . |
| 8 | As well as maintaining a good posture , women were expected to move with grace , which was the principal reason for dancing lessons A woman attempting to achieve this ideal of beauty needed to spend a great deal of money , and so labouring class women were automatically excluded , even if they were possessed of ‘ natural ’ beauty . |
| 9 | Common sense must prevail to avoid over-working a horse and so straining muscles . |
| 10 | This practice dictates that there is only so much money available and so meeting needs , and therefore needs themselves , must fit within financial constraints . |
| 11 | In the same way , key performance indicators set up for each function are reviewed quarterly against its business plan with relevant managers ‘ but it 's not a dull , dry event : it 's when everybody pulls together , discussing everything that 's happening in great depth and giving managers the opportunity to explain to directors why they 're falling short , the constraints and obstacles , and so achieving agreement with the figures and the indicators used , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Moreover , water is often heated and pumped , and so minimising water use is another way of minimising energy consumption . |
| 13 | New evidence also proves that it causes a chemical reaction in the skin , attacking and destroying collagen and elastin — which keep skin supple — and so hastening signs of ageing . |
| 14 | This could have forced us to accept fixed exchange rates for the pound , restricting industrial growth and so putting jobs at risk . |
| 15 | He 'd once thought of asking one of the Venetz sisters out , but they were pretty well inseparable ; a turndown did n't worry him so much as the prospect of being accepted by one and so giving offence to the other . |
| 16 | Flu viruses are notorious for the ease in which they undergo such antigenic shifts , as they are called , and so giving rise to epidemics . |
| 17 | A tuberculin remains as a useful diagnostic agent for detecting the state of immunity to tuberculosis , and so giving evidence of the presence , or past presence , of the disease . |
| 18 | This is not precisely a feminist point , but retrospectively , all of these are points about somebody unorthodox coming in , who does n't accept the orthodox rules , and comes out of Jeremy Isaacs ' determination to do things differently , and so having women . |
| 19 | ft , or the same floor space could be obtained on a smaller part of the site by building higher , and so releasing land for car parking and other uses . |
| 20 | An obese person can strive to overcome such feelings by overeating and so gaining size , weight and ( subjectively speaking ) importance . |
| 21 | For example , if the pH falls below 4.5 , trout cease to produce the enzyme responsible for breaking down the outer coating of their eggs , trapping the larvae and so preventing reproduction . |
| 22 | Towards the end of the war , the much-expanded rocket group was named the Jet Propulsion Laboratory — ‘ jet ’ , in this case , referring to the ejection of material , and so covering rockets . |
| 23 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 24 | The use of filamentous bacteriophage has even led to strategies for building antibodies in bacteria and improving their binding affinities , and so by-passing immunisation 4,5 . |