Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [conj] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The general rule is that a battery is committed where a person touches or strikes another , grabs hold of their sleeve or lapels and so on , without implied or express permission .
2 List the fittings which are being included in the sale ; these are usually items fixed to the walls such as kitchen units , mirrors , light fittings , cupboard units and , of course , any curtains or carpets and so on .
3 erm There 's not much opportunity for job advancement , there are fewer opportunities to rise up the scale and become Readers or Professors and so on .
4 A spectacular programme of events , displays , demonstrations and activities and so on and so forth .
5 I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations .
6 ‘ England , of course , and the southeast , ’ and it goes on to give you the dates , the times , the places and contacts and so forth .
7 and plans and so on .
8 The Football Supporters Association have set out on a project to democratise the game , taking control of the clubs and institutions that so ruthlessly exploit their support .
9 He came from the er amongst other things Inland Revenue and er very welcome addition to staff and er has quite a , a good grasp of many er sort of national bodies and institutions and so on and is very helpful , and is settling in very well and well-liked .
10 He moved around France quite a lot , and not only was he a soldier , but he was writing comic operas and operas , and musicals and so on , and some of his work was pro produced and performed at the Opera Comic , in in France .
11 No , no no , no I said to her if we could just know , cos er , moving bodies and cars and so on , she probably understands but she said as soon as you see a doctor out here , speak to them and , and then we can erm , but they may know somebody
12 So we always have to lay in stores that will last us a month or six weeks — a sack , or perhaps two , of flour , and groceries and so on .
13 So there 's no water shortage as such , sometimes you get the water problems when you get out in the sticks somewhere you 'll , you , you do have problems , but all fire officers are trained to search their areas and have special cards er which they 've done their research on , where the water supplies are , like ponds and lakes and so on , and that information is readily available when they turn out these areas so that a fire crew going out there , your nearest water supply is a pond at and certain area and they 've got that you see .
14 Esmerelda never did show up ; nobody saw her after me , as far as Diggs ' enquiries of trawlers and drilling-rigs and so on could show .
15 But an awful lot of things we can control by volunt voluntary movement , our arms and legs and so on , and we can control our thoughts .
16 Firstly because editors and journalists and so forth get an awful lot of them , and do n't have time to pore over them , and secondly because they pick them up , they sort of come in , they look at it and say , ‘ I ca n't see how I can use this . ’
17 This chapter includes a selection of quotations for the most common subjects you are likely to want to cover : love , marriage , weddings , family , work and hobbies and so on .
18 It seems that children have not yet absorbed the fears , doubts and confusions that so often beset us as adults .
19 The Portuguese melodies were pretty Moorish and strange , but they introduced the Hawaiians to ideas like fixed melodies , and keys and so forth .
20 This exercise had never had much substance : the government had carried out an ‘ Industrial Inquiry ’ by questionnaire and had collated the results concerning investment trends , production , manpower requirements , expected exports and imports and so on , then used this as a basis for formulating some ambitious forecasts of growth to 1970 .
21 I do n't believe that we 're all born equal , as lumps of dough that are later shaped by our peers and parents and so forth
22 Er because I do n't have a group of accountants in front of me I 'm not going to go on about debits and credits and so on and so forth .
23 And if you can think of that , you can repackage your particular thing not in terms of your own interests and ideas and so forth , but you can package it in such a way that it 's intriguing , or at the very least , the people who are going you hope will use it can actually see how they could use it .
24 Er a loading gauge just here , to ensure that er anything coming out of that er er that had been loaded in the goods shed was not erm overloaded , and likely to hit tunnels and bridges and so on .
25 Marriages and funerals and so on ? ’
26 Are the precautions that are carried out during surgery or general practice adequate — for example the wearing of three rubber gloves and gowns and so forth ?
27 So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ?
28 You 've done rotations and reflections and so forth have n't you ?
29 Mechanics and armourers and so on .
30 Erm I 'll just sort of er talk briefly about sort of main trends and , and sort of output and orders and so on and then go through in terms of some of the implications that results as regards to employment and domestic crisis .
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