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

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1 It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year .
2 No surprises here , Galliano are neo-modernists , or so the style pundits would have us , and them , believe .
3 Every minute or so the telephone operator intoned in a bored sing-song ,
4 ‘ If Anyone Can Canon Can ’ , or so the TV commercials tell us .
5 Thus , true poetry is an entity to which the property POETRY truly applies , while Charlie 's old school is an entity such that the relation between it and the description CHARLIE 'S SCHOOL belongs to the time labelled by the word " old " , and a certain winner ( when not used with the indefinite sense ) is an entity of whom or which the description WINNER certainly holds ( or so the gambler hopes ) .
6 After a minute or so the plastic card split where it bent , and Forester had to pull it out carefully .
7 However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again .
8 Desktop publishing is dead , or so the marketing men would have us all believe .
9 It is easier for the lecturer to write than for the student to look at a distant blackboard and then back to his so-called " notes " , and so a phase difference develops between the blackboard and the class .
10 This means that a dominant rat can be identified by its call , and so a rat colony can maintain its hierarchy without unnecessary fighting .
11 This means that the sample has no way of dissipating a large applied stress , other than by bond rupture , and so a polymer glass is prone to brittle fracture .
12 And so the pillow shape was there and it , and the knitted there .
13 Should the strings become entwined then the first protagonist to shout ‘ Strings ! ’ had strike and so the conker bashing went on until one split .
14 From Fig.8.7(a) the variation of v/c over one orbit is seen to have an amplitude of order 10 -3 , and so the SR time dilation of the period is also of order 10 -6 .
15 However , the usual arithmetic return is ( F t +1 ; - F t ) /F t , and so the price relative is equal to one plus the arithmetic return .
16 But now ‘ job ’ cars are going diesel completely , because from next year all cars must be cat-equipped if they are petrol vehicles , and so the price differential has been ironed out between petrol and diesel , since ‘ cat ’ cars are more expensive than non-'cats ' .
17 Perhaps more significantly I was to find out that many Heads and teachers alike believed in the importance of creative experience for children , and so the way schools had developed was genuine , well founded and not a half-baked ill-digested educational " gimmick " .
18 Being an intercooled unit the engine runs cooler than a non intercooled turbocharged diesel as the air fed into the engine is at a lower temperature and so the engine cooling system does not have to dispose of as much waste heat .
19 The path difference across the orbit in Fig.8.8(a) is ( NN' ) sin i or a(le2)l/2 sin i.e. is already determined , and so the delay measurements yield a sin i .
20 Parents may be too busy to attend to them or not fast enough in their reactions and understanding of what is required and so the child tantrums in desperation and anger .
21 We had to put a bloke in hospital there ; and so the owd skipper say to me : ‘ Boy , ’ he says , ‘ we ought to have another hand .
22 The LANtastic network is DOS based with additional Windows support software and so the DOS side of things must be up and running first .
23 And so the Air Staff found that they had a vociferous and powerful industrial lobby in both Westminster and Whitehall to back their case for GOR 339 .
24 And so the Walking Diet evolved .
25 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 .
26 When an insect alights on water , the surface is dimpled by its legs and thus extended and so the surface energy is increased .
27 However , these traditional role expectations prove weaker than the pressure of the other goals and practical constraints , and so the gender role is modified .
28 And so the state sector is n't in the fiction at all , and things are worked out from the outside by slightly maverick women , sorting out the problems created by the state — whether it 's in terms of poverty or wife bashing .
29 The resultant figure is a net liability and so the minority interest is a debit balance .
30 This £100 million will be received by workers , contractors , suppliers , etc. who are enga-ged on building the motorway , and so the first-round effect will be an equivalent increase in national income of £100 million ( remember , income must equal expenditure ) .
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