Example sentences of "[to-vb] and so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , by taking into account things like she 's had to struggle and so on , and if her qualifications are actually as good then maybe she 's had to work harder . |
| 2 | The long-term decline in the participation of older people , particularly older men , in the workforce can not be attributed to changes in the individual characteristics of older people themselves — their health , attitudes to work and so on . |
| 3 | Er , people with unknown ambitions , frontiers that they want to adjust and so on . |
| 4 | You give people new schedules , reports to write , projects to complete , a customer or client to visit and so on . |
| 5 | Yes I erm I would like to point out that we are looking er very closely at the sales and I 've just had a report on my desk from the head of finance which is the beginning of the discussions in the management team on er the sales erm and relation of loss of sales to profit and so on and the now we , the shop is in that position we 've had time t we have more time to assess how things are working out . |
| 6 | They will be eager to perform and so please parents who are appreciative of their efforts and admiring of what they produce from inside themselves . |
| 7 | Whereas this involvement by grandmothers is welcomed by their daughters , conflict can arise when a mother tends to " take over " the care of her grandchild , telling her daughter what to do , how to do it , what to buy and so on . |
| 8 | Although the term might seem naturally to denote prior arrangement , it was held under the previous law that the word is ‘ not a term of art ’ and that a person can organise spontaneously by giving directions on the spot as to such matters as the route to ken , when to stop and when to advance and so forth . |
| 9 | Clearly , a large part of the job of a person making a submission to the court is to ‘ know ’ the judge , to try to predict what the judge does and does not want to hear and so on . |
| 10 | By the end of the week there was just a simple theory test left where we were asked questions about winds , how to overtake and so on — and then it was certificate time . |
| 11 | We see that every May election time when people do n't even bother to turn out to vote and so on . |
| 12 | Now an extreme introvert , might be er sort of case you know , you 're , you 're erm er cutting up the sandwiches or whatever preparations you 've got to do and so on . |
| 13 | just pure inset , and just headquarters , that 's all they 're interested in , not whether he knows his job or not , not whether he could give advice because he has no control over whatever comes into that shop , he does n't decide we 're not having these T-shirts in or , or we 're not having these suits in because really they 're a load of rubbish , headquarters decides it , all he does is put a nice little display out , usually , and it 's shown how to do it by headquarters and so on , these people come round and show them what to do and so on , do all that , in fact he 's as much expertise in there as I have or you have , anybody could literally with a bit of training in the company way of doing things |
| 14 | She had better things to do , a world to conquer and so forth , who did he think he was ? — Foreigners can be dogged . |
| 15 | I mean at the moment of choice you 're faced with a set of people , including , let's say , one man and one woman , who on paper match each other and who perhaps , even if you 've adjusted for a possibility of the woman 's having to fight and so on , they 're equal on paper . |
| 16 | Posters continue to fascinate and so often depict one-off , rare or even imaginary aircraft . |
| 17 | She knew a lot about birds — she 'd have been perfectly able to do a short stint , teaching them to fly and so forth . |
| 18 | But what I 'll do is I 'll set you some work on stuff you need to revise and so forth . |
| 19 | I had to chew soap to froth and so on . |
| 20 | In this way you can find out whether the therapy concerned is suitable for your particular condition , what the cost per session will be , how many sessions you are likely to need and so on . |
| 21 | And he sent er memo after memo to the commanders in Korea advising them of what the guidelines were , what they were allowed to say , what they were n't allowed to say and so on . |
| 22 | Does he not feel that , as they were so ready to move and so well equipped , they knew all about the IRA bombs and probably the timing as well ? |
| 23 | This is reckoned to be the largest exercise of its type since the reforms were put forward , blood pressure started to rise , nostrils began to flare and so on . |