Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] so [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation .
2 And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) .
3 Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible .
4 After an hour or so the pungency diminishes .
5 However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again .
6 If an exogenously determined money stock can be taken for granted , then movements in money incomes and prices would not influence the money stock and so the causality must run in the direction presumed by monetarists .
7 That was unthinkable to the British generals , even though Napoleon III made it clear to Lord Palmerston that he did not intend to usurp the command and so the problem would not arise .
8 Young children have very different temperaments and so the style of management of one child may not suit another .
9 The truss rod is accessed from this end of the neck and so the fretboard extending in this way means that the truss rod is either neatly tucked away , or a pain to get to for adjustment 's sake , depending on how you view the situation .
10 This is usually a result of family and marriage ties and so an employer might expect young unattached female staff to be more willing to relocate than married women .
11 In family 5 the mother 's brother had previously been confirmed by muscle biopsy and so a biopsy on the infant was thought unnecessary .
12 The cup shadows the cell and so the animal can gain an impression of the direction of the light source .
13 His hope had been that she might have moved on before the word got around , no chance for gossip and so no awkwardness , but his sense of firm control in that area seemed to have slipped away from him .
14 The Convention was a treaty entered into by the United States and so a part of federal law pre-empting State rules .
15 Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook .
16 He used to export half his rice crop , but for four years there has been no export and so no incentive to grow more than he needs .
17 If the latter applies , there is no thing in action and so no property to steal .
18 This may be associated with disturbed sleep and irritability and so the scratching may not be noticed .
19 Further examination revealed a hard swelling at the base of the penis and the question of a foreign body was raised with Mr P. He strongly denied inserting anything into his urethra and so an X-ray was taken .
20 In these cases the arc of movement of the rig is not great enough to get the CE sufficiently behind the CLR and so the board becomes unresponsive .
21 Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead .
22 The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income .
23 Proposals for private motorised travel were , on the other hand , very different , for this mode was seen to be at the root of many of the traffic and environmental problems of the experimental areas and so every effort was to be made to curb the excesses of its use .
24 You would need to ensure that each amp dealt only with its allotted frequency range and so the signal would be split using a crossover , or filter .
25 At a frequency of 20 hertz , there are 20 waves each second and so the length of each one is about 17 metres .
26 The Liberals had decided to end their pact and so the government had no firm majority in the House on which to rely .
27 In any garden one has to think of the practical as well as the more decorative elements and so a shed and compost area were included .
28 Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem .
29 For example Barthes 's account of French amateur wrestling asserts that it is not a contest but a spectacle and so the outcome ( who wins ) is not a significant point in the event .
30 Dexter remembered that cackle and so the journalist who owned it : John Barry , who had helped report Blanche 's last murder case for the Herald .
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