Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had moved a mile or so up the valley to live at Bullhouse Lodge and work at the nearby corn mill . |
| 2 | Fifty metres or so up the slope , she began to waver and looked ready to collapse again . |
| 3 | A yard or so up the line from the bomb a swivel or ring is tied in as a back stop . |
| 4 | Lakewood guitars are designed by one Martin Seeliger , and they 're built at the rate of about twenty-five per week in a town called Geissen in Germany , an hour or so up the autobahn from Frankfurt . |
| 5 | If during the waggle the clubhead feels to be not at the end of the shaft but an inch or so up the shaft , in a waggle you would never be able to feel the exact position of the head coming into impact . |
| 6 | Until ten years or so ago a bundle of similar envelopes had lain in a drawer of her desk ; one day in a fit of vigour she had torn them up and thrown them away . |
| 7 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 8 | They both were astonished that so far no indication of trouble had come from the town common ; but reckoned that it would not be long now before it did , for a few escapers from the castle had been glimpsed running in that direction . |
| 9 | Before moving on to make use of the database , it was necessary to assess whether or not the data itself was valid for the organisation being studied , bearing in mind that so far the exercise had been a systems-thinking one , rather than a study of what was happening in practice . |
| 10 | Douglas Scott , the region 's senior corporate advisor , said that so far the council has concentrated on upping the region 's profile in Brussels and honing its statistical case . |
| 11 | We can conclude that so far the law 's quest to subject the power conferred on corporate managers to controls to prevent it from being exercised arbitrarily has not been successful . |
| 12 | Large volume users , like British Steel and ICI , have complained that so far the market mechanism has not proved effective |
| 13 | Since the progress zone 's existence is dependent on a signal from the ridge , removal of the ridge results in the disappearance of the progress zone and so effectively the clock in the cells is stopped permanently . |
| 14 | In order to buy the oil off us , they had to pay sterling and so hence the demand for sterling goes up and suddenly we were viewed as a very rich economy . |
| 15 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 16 | G. On the western lowlands Chester ( 58 000 people ) is a central place where the Romans and the Normans defended what was once the lowest bridging point over the River Dee and so also the route into northern Wales . |
| 17 | Corinne Gotch , Booksellers Association marketing executive and NBS committee member , commented : ‘ Fewer booksellers are taking part , and so clearly the sale needs to be re-examined from both a bookselling and publishing point of view to see what can be cone to encourage greater participation . ’ |
| 18 | So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady . |
| 19 | Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped . |
| 20 | Alternatively the mother may not offer the food quickly enough and so eventually the child loses concentration and interest . |
| 21 | Er we said last week that the on the only , the only real way that the peasants were gon na er mobilize was if they , they thought that they could actually win and so surely the violence would have been a means of saying we 're a credible force to be reckoned with |
| 22 | And as they went on , you know , it was gradually working up and so therefore the graph , each man 's productivity you know , was rising . |
| 23 | And so on the whole the unions in Britain have seen this as a way of catching some people who otherwise would fall through the net entirely . |
| 24 | Depending on the company , excluding any one or more of these items could have a dramatic effect on the volatility of its results , and so on the element of risk in its PRP scheme . |
| 25 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 26 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 27 | And so far the revenue have been going yeah , yeah , go away go away . |
| 28 | The days for R&D are over : we need demonstration , and so far the Prototype Fast Reactor has demonstrated only that the non-nuclear bits of the technology do n't work particularly well . |
| 29 | The Sackvilles were considerable landowners and so quite an inheritance was at stake — enough at any rate to turn Richard into the classic professional litigant before both lay and ecclesiastical courts . |
| 30 | Such rocks are rare in the forest , and so sometimes a queue forms to use one . |