Example sentences of "so [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dozen or so desperados lounge round the door . |
| 2 | The county 's director of environment David Newbegin said there would also be some road closures , but gaps would be left so cyclists could get through . |
| 3 | ( 1 ) On granting or transferring a hotel licence , a restricted hotel licence , a restaurant licence or an entertainment licence in respect of any premises , a licensing board shall , if the applicant so requests , insert in the licence a condition that there shall be no permitted hours in those premises on Sundays . |
| 4 | ( 1 ) On granting or transferring a licence in respect of any premises , a licensing board may , if the applicant so requests and if the board is satisfied that the requirements of the area for which the board is constituted make it desirable , insert in the licence a condition that , during such part or parts of the year as may be specified in the condition ( being a part which is not longer , or parts which taken together are not longer , than 180 days ) . |
| 5 | A certified copy of the entries in the court books is sent to the court to which the proceedings are transferred ; so are all other documents , but in enforcement or payment into court cases only if the transfer ee court so requests ( Ord 16 , r 4(3) , ( 4 ) ) . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) If the defendant has delivered a defence but does not appear then if the plaintiff so requests and can give evidence of the facts and as to quantum , judgment may be given or alternatively directions ( Ord 17 , r 8 ) . |
| 7 | The first and foremost is natural selection ; individuals that are particularly well-adapted to their environment reproduce more than their fellows and so copies of their genes become more common . |
| 8 | Once the basic outline of the artist 's sketches were reproduced , it was up to a team of colourists , some obviously better than others , to colour the 200 or so copies of each plate . |
| 9 | I know he was a ratepayer because he repeated this fact in the subsequent inquiry , a dozen or so times , adding that he did n't pay rates to have his hat ruined , a view I could understand . |
| 10 | Step down , expose for 1 second , repeat 15 or so times . |
| 11 | Doctors did not always provide this information on claim forms so times were available for only 1591 ( 80.0% ) of the visits analysed . |
| 12 | Step down , expose for 1 second , repeat 15 or so times . |
| 13 | So times is okay . |
| 14 | And er so times were still hard , it was n't until they , let's say until thirty ei thirty eight , that the depression finished in the coal field , when they started building up from then . |
| 15 | You do n't have to tell them your business , but what you do have to say is , I 've got an alarm system , an audible system , so bells only , if you hear it going off can you ring the home station ? |
| 16 | Many schools , colleges and universities in Latin America are part of the church 's empire and so values , inculcated here , are in line with the dominant Catholic Hispanic mores . |
| 17 | Near a town there is much competition for land and so values are high . |
| 18 | Further away there is less competition for land and so values are lower . |
| 19 | So issuers who want to get the most for selling their shares tend to prefer book-building , even though fees are higher . |
| 20 | So nutritionists employ a bigger unit — the kilocalorie , which is 1000 calories . |
| 21 | Well , just as you know you can move your hand with four ‘ degrees of freedom ’ in four dimensions so objects , considered in certain ways , have ten degrees of freedom . |
| 22 | A Trust spokesman said the volunteers were hoping to remove grass from the marsh so reeds can spread across the water . |
| 23 | He said the Government will change the law so courts can impose a secure training order on 12 to 15-year-olds who have been convicted of three imprisonable crimes and who can not be dealt with in the community . |
| 24 | Of course , Anisminic is authority only in relation to the precise wording of the provision in issue in that case , and so courts are able to interpret different wording more favourably to the government . |
| 25 | So specifiers will need to know not just that a tile meets EC requirements , but — crucially in northern Europe — in what way it meets those requirements . |
| 26 | For Byrd 's finest expression of religious emotion to English words we must turn to his Psalmes , Sonets and songs of Sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) , his Songs of sundrie natures ( 1589 ) , and his Psalmes , Songs and Sonnets ( 1611 ) , which include equivalents of the geistlicher Gesang and madrigale spirituale though often conceived with instrumental parts ; for his greatest church music to his two hundred or so motets . |
| 27 | Within the SenFed almost every one of those million or so planets is vying with at least some others — for influence , for position , for trade and aid and income . |
| 28 | Add to this the copyright problems — there will be no retrospective recognition of copyright for foreign books and so back-lists will remain unprotected — and it is easy to see why so many publishers simply sigh and pass on . |
| 29 | Ian Rush , who enjoyed Rosenthal 's attacking company after his frustrating lone furrow against Spartak Moscow , summed up the case for the Israeli 's defence when he said : ‘ Sometimes I do n't think Ronny knows what he 's doing so defenders certainly are n't going to know . ’ |
| 30 | So surveyors were in great demand all over the country . |