Example sentences of "[conj] so a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 2 | The ground rose slightly , then dipped ; after a hundred yards or so a shallow outcrop of rocks hid the house . |
| 3 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 4 | Only one of the brand-new lifts is working , or so a smudged note scrawled in chalk on a blackboard attempts to tell us : ‘ Due to a defect , certain lift operations suspended . ’ |
| 5 | Within the next , er month or so a national consultation is being held within the URC to consider the advice of producing a programme of training for eldership which will be used throughout the call of the church and if there are any suggestions or any proposal that anyone would like to make I shall be very glad to receive them within the next month . |
| 6 | At £26 or so a square yard , Cottage Collection may not leave you with a lot to spend on lavish celebrations . |
| 7 | AT £26 OR SO A SQUARE YARD , COTTAGE COLLECTION MAY NOT LEAVE YOU WITH A LOT TO SPEND ON LAVISH CELEBRATIONS . |
| 8 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 9 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 10 | Ideally , farmers would like to grow the larvae from eggs , and so a new industry — prawn hatcheries — has grown up to meet the demand . |
| 11 | Successful Compacts will promote a kaleidoscope of different activities , and will be supported by a wide range of different parties , and so a complex management task emerges . |
| 12 | And so a sanitized canon of soul and funk was drawn up : James Brown 's ‘ Say it Loud , I 'm Black and I 'm Proud ’ , Curtis Mayfield 's ‘ Move On Up ’ and ‘ We 've got to Have Peace ’ , Timmy Thomas 's ‘ Why Ca n't We Live Together ’ , Gil Scott Heron 's ‘ The Bottle ’ , Grandmaster Flash 's ‘ The Message ’ , Brother D and the Collective Effort 's ‘ How We Gon na Make the Black Nation Rise ’ , James Brown and Afrika Bambatta 's ‘ Unity ’ . |
| 13 | This is because there are no semantic cues as to who is waving at whom , and so a syntactic analysis of the question is necessary and this is more difficult in the second version where the relative pronoun ( that ) has been deleted . |
| 14 | The Reynolds number ranges appear short , but this is deceptive ; there is a large change in the fraction of the fluid in the pipe that is turbulent as one goes through the range , and so a small change in Reynolds number is associated with a large change in the non-dimensional pressure drop . |
| 15 | From 1867 onwards it became clear that the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne and so a small household was established . |
| 16 | And so a strong tradition has grown up that teachers must know their pupils , care for them in a general way , interest themselves in their moral development , and give them as many educational opportunities as possible outside the class-room as well as in it . |
| 17 | If equipment has to travel between hospitals and schools , it must be able to withstand stress and so a strong carrying case is preferable . |
| 18 | Both of these are frequently mixed or compounded with other minerals such as copper or lead and so a virtual monopoly was held by the old Mines Royal Company , and its permission was needed . |
| 19 | Pursuit encourages further retreat , and so a vicious spiral is established which can destabilize a relationship . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When the suit is wet , it traps a thin layer of water between the body and the suit and your body quickly warms that up to a comfortable working temperature but if you fall in when the suit is dry , the cold water can be quite a shock and so a good trick in cold weather is to put the wet suit on in a hot shower and then over the top you wear a spray suit again to keep off the wind and to protect the wetsuit . |
| 22 | It turned out there were large surpluses in the BTR pension fund and so a good chance that the transfer value , as well as the potential pension , would be increased in the not too distant future . |
| 23 | You see , the human perception is that the thicker string feels different to the thin one , and so a balanced set of strings actually feels completely out of balance . |
| 24 | In most cases , divers working at those depths tend to reach the limits of maximum bottom time , and so a speedy assent to the surface is not desirable . |
| 25 | But , we are using actual income to measure expected income , and so a positive value for v t will suggest that there has been a rise in expected income with no accompanying rise in consumption expenditure . |
| 26 | Hungry hawks have to be fed , and so a constant supply of fresh meat must be found . |
| 27 | Ascertainment through regional cancer registries may not be complete , and so a special search of hospital and pathology department records was made to ascertain any cases of leukaemia or lymphoma in Allerdale and Copeland for 1969–83 that might not previously have been registered . |
| 28 | And so a rapid return to the Lakes became a priority for me ; a desire I shared , it seemed , with every cold front kicking around the South Atlantic . |
| 29 | For example , it is unfortunately true that many people experience a burglary at their home ; this usually means things being stolen and so a significant loss occurs . |
| 30 | Proceedings between the Attorney-General and the Observer and Guardian newspapers in the matter of confidentiality were not ‘ active ’ at the time and so a statutory contempt could not be committed . |