Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] so [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 2 | Young children have very different temperaments and so the style of management of one child may not suit another . |
| 3 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 4 | For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation . |
| 5 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 6 | Children 's behaviour problems can arise in all of these contexts and so the advice needs to be specifically tailored to the individual family 's requirements . |
| 7 | It was a simple , but very pertinent observation and re-emphasised that over the last 18 months or so the All Blacks have been steadily squeezed in the nutcracker of their own ambition . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There are difficulties assessing the child between the age of 2 and 4 years and so a range of different tests is used in an attempt to tap a wide range of the child 's skills and maintain the child 's interest and motivation to co-operate . |
| 10 | Here we have , albeit speculatively ( and more baldly than most specialists would dare ) , the distributions and dispersals of archaic populations and so a geographical history of human populations throughout the world . |
| 11 | For very distant objects these stars themselves are too faint to be visible , but if you look at clusters of galaxies , we find that the very brightest galaxy in a cluster is the same brightness in all clusters and so the fainter it looks to us the further away the cluster of galaxies must be . |
| 12 | The reason being that probably for the last 50 years the sewers have been provided free : they have outlived any associated loans and so no charge has been made to the revenue accounts . |
| 13 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the last ten years or so a group of enthusiastic breeders has been attempting to locate and rescue some of the coloured cattle of Wales and in 1981 a breed society for the Ancient or Coloured Cattle of Wales was set up ; its Welsh title is Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru . |
| 16 | Wade also rebuilt the existing barracks at Ruthven and Bernera , already described , and over the next ten years or so a total of more than 30 other forts to protect his new , Roman-style , network of roads . |
| 17 | Local registry offices will also supply copies of certificates if the event was recorded in their district , but they do not provide facilities for consulting indexes and so the genealogist has to have fairly precise information before a successful search for a certificate can be made . |
| 18 | Selection intensity on early , beneficial effects will be stronger than on later , deleterious ones and so the optimal life history will include ageing . |
| 19 | In this case the only difference between the regions would be their initial configurations and so the strong anthropic principle would reduce to the weak one . |
| 20 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 21 | They also point out that during the past five years or so the proportion of part-time students has remained roughly constant at about one-third of the total . |
| 22 | Roman medallions were made in small quantities and so the die would be likely to survive , while at Dalisandos no coinage was made in the intervening years . |
| 23 | Royal Commissions had been appointed , and had recently reported , on the state of rivers ; they had investigated the ‘ comfortable doctrine ’ that in twelve miles or so a river however foul would purify itself , and found it untrue . |
| 24 | However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again . |
| 25 | Many parents comment that their child did the complete opposite of what was asked for several months and so the parents learned to say the opposite of what they wanted , for example , ‘ I really do n't want you to put your pyjamas on now ’ , or ‘ I do n't think you can eat all of that food ’ . |
| 26 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 27 | Over the last twenty years or so the regulating authorities of several States have recognised that there can be significant value in recording , and preferably investigating , the cause of near accidents . |
| 28 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 29 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 30 | With a number of solids the interatomic forces are stronger and stiffer than they are in common liquids and so the surface energies are higher , often ten or twenty times the values for ordinary liquids . |