Example sentences of "[conj] so [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 5 | After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He argues that over the last century or so the number of white-collar jobs has increased rapidly , but at the same time the skill required to do the jobs has been reduced . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Disabled people meet substantial resistance to many choices , and so a range of communication , assertiveness and negotiation skills is needed . |
| 10 | As the child grows we aim to educate him or her in the constructive use of leisure time and so a range of extra-curricular activities is offered . |
| 11 | Language is made up of units that may be repeated sequentially ( e.g. papa ) or combined recursively ( e.g. Bill saw John in the car ) and so a way of recording competing interpretations is needed which distinguishes between different tokens of the same unit . |
| 12 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 13 | The Convention was a treaty entered into by the United States and so a part of federal law pre-empting State rules . |
| 14 | And so a dance between the mother and daughter begins . |
| 15 | And so a couple of hours later , it was Burkett who drove the coach and four to the top of Dunmail Raise while Hope and Sylvia walked behind to spare the horses the effort , even though , as Burkett had pointed out , two passengers were light work for four horses . |
| 16 | Any change in position could be attributed to external factors , and so a defence of one 's own consistency could be mounted , whilst apparently changing sides from loyalism to republicanism . |
| 17 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
| 18 | His father was probably steward of the king of Scotland as earl of Northampton , and so a baron of some standing , but not a tenant-in-chief ; Gilbert 's brother or nephew rose by marriage into this rank . |
| 19 | Learning how to translate unfamiliar letter strings into phonological form is just like learning to read non-words aloud , of course : and so a procedure for reading non-words aloud may be a crucial aspect of learning to read . |
| 20 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 21 | Experience showed , he said , that the proportion which debts recovered bore to the cost of the court proceedings was less than one in twenty , and so a burden on trade and business . |
| 22 | She did not want to be responsible for the reckless consumption of any of the earth 's resources in the shape of fuel , and so a round on foot suited her perfectly . |
| 23 | Ciaran Fitzgerald and the team will be all too aware that they let the fans down and so a repeat of that disaster in the remaining matches is most unlikely . |
| 24 | In family 5 the mother 's brother had previously been confirmed by muscle biopsy and so a biopsy on the infant was thought unnecessary . |
| 25 | So and so a number on a yellow or a blue or a red , yeah I 've seen it . |
| 26 | ‘ After the war the Russians encouraged the Poles in Britain to return home and so a number of army people — including Nowak — went back . |
| 27 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 28 | Consolidation and centralisation have been effected to a much greater degree than here , and so a reaction to their effects may be expected to be stronger . |
| 29 | And so a sort of small welfare rights group began to form in the dayroom . |
| 30 | And so a lot of women continued to wear these erm rubber garments . |