Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction . |
| 2 | Police , however , say that so far only one or two isolated incidents have been reported . |
| 3 | You say that so far as you 're concerned , it 's all right for children to learn if in fact they 're enjoying it and if in fact they want to and they 're not being coerced . |
| 4 | You say that so far as you 're concerned , it 's all right for children to learn if in fact they 're enjoying it and if in fact they want to and they 're not being coerced . |
| 5 | If it is to function as well as it possibly can , the body has several basic needs — nutrition , exercise , relaxation , sleep and so on — but , because of the hectic pace of twentieth century life , not enough attention is paid to ensuring that these needs are met . |
| 6 | Er , is right , the , the area of the mind that is open to , for example , sensory stimuli to your ears and eyes , touch and so on , things that you 're conscious of , is in your ego . |
| 7 | Now that you see so it might be an idea If you have your table within the marquis , that does whatever you want it to do , that can talk to kids if they want and so forth , you see they they 're sort of juniors upwards . |
| 8 | It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime . |
| 9 | Once ITV started , rules about advertisements were needed , concerning length , frequency , position in schedules , content and so on . |
| 10 | but it 's erm it does mean that you can , so to speak , design your teeth as a sort of decent engineering job and make them fit with one another and slide over one another and grind and so on . |
| 11 | Animals , infants , and deviant adults are said to see , hear , smell and so on , in those special circumstances , where we feel impelled to mark the similarity of their behaviour to that of human beings situated likewise whilst allowing for the inability to describe what they perceive . |
| 12 | Figures released at yesterday 's meeting of the station 's Local Community Liaison Council show that so far this year more than 8,000 visitors have visited the station , 70pc up on the same period last year . |
| 13 | Leaving aside the question of whether these descriptions may be generalized beyond the British context , a problem with the approach is that writers have tended to concentrate on the ‘ outward and visible signs ’ , the more manifest differences in collective bargaining structure , unionization , pay determination , conflict and so on , without providing a more general framework within which these phenomena may be seen . |
| 14 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 15 | The reader will soon detect a number of important things of interest that have been omitted ( room , examination , research and so on ) . |
| 16 | If not , the child may start to do something else ( scratch , look out of the window , fidget and so on ) . |
| 17 | Continue this exercise with items in a stationer 's , bakery , ironmonger 's , fish shop and so on . |
| 18 | For example recieve would have the same index as receive and so on . |
| 19 | You have to make your own decision about the type of condoms you want , thinking about factors such as the way they smell and taste ( if you want to use a condom in oral sex ) , how easy they are to put on and how they feel during sex , what they feel like , how much they cost and so on . |
| 20 | You 've got seven or more plants in the States elsewhere er you know on criteria such as erm quality and productivity , cost and so on . |
| 21 | So now you can relate positions one to three to how much they cost and so on on the way down . |
| 22 | A few years ago , it was quite revolutionary to provide an aid , called Possum , for those who were quadriplegic ; it enabled the paralysed person , by blowing on a type of keyboard , to manipulate light switches , radio and television sets , telephone and so on . |
| 23 | It is likely that intrinsic ( genetic ) and extrinsic ( environmental ) factors combined to produce the observed range of shell size , shape , colour , ornament and so forth . |
| 24 | The absence of musical form horrified Schoenberg , and a similar distaste helped to motivate the multifaceted serialism — in duration , pitch and so on — of Webern and , later , of Boulez . |
| 25 | Theoretical political economy is the study of a social economy based upon the production of commodities , i.e. the study of an unorganised social economy … as soon as we take an organised social economy , all the basic ‘ problems ’ of political economy disappear : problems of value , price , profit and so on . |
| 26 | Most of this level is involved in the physical functioning of our bodies — breathing , circulation , heartbeat and so on — and no more than a quarter is available for dealing with our conscious thought processes . |
| 27 | A number of other areas of the curriculum — art and craft , PE , music , CDT , computers , dance and so on — were given comparatively little time , amounting to the same number of teacher-days between them as were spent on science alone . |
| 28 | a really strong ruler who can tell me what to do so I know where I stand and so on . |
| 29 | Most departments have quantifiable running cost inputs ( postage , staff , travel and so on ) and outputs ( such as payments , collections , caseloads ) which can be used to develop performance measures such as accuracy ( proportion of errors ) , timeliness ( such as response time ) , throughput ( such as number of cases dealt with ) and unit cost ( such as average cost per case/client ) . |
| 30 | Interleaf Publisher provides its own environment which includes a word processor , graphics package and so on . |