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

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1 Despite being launched six months or so ago in the US , with almost singular lack of impact , this part of the package has been accepted internally as a program integrator by no less an august institution than IBM itself .
2 Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre .
3 By the end of 1982 , about 1000 effluent licences were granted , leaving 600 or so still in the hands of local authorities .
4 ‘ I have promised that so often in the past , and it has never answered yet ! ’
5 Little has changed so radically and so frequently in the United Kingdom constitution during the past two decades as the structure of local government .
6 Knit welts and so on in the dark colour .
7 Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’
8 And although these are obviously er at some kind of show because if you look beyond the horses you can see there are marquees and so on in the background .
9 and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm .
10 We work in the Health arena , you yourself have had considerable experience , and you referred to the changing roles between public and private agencies , and you mentioned trusts and so on in the health arena , I just wondered whether you 'd like to explore with us a little , your own personal thinking about the nature of these changing roles , and perhaps a little bit of crystal ball gazing ahead ,
11 We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down .
12 Mr. Whitaker relied upon the wording of section 6(1) of the Act of 1978 , which says that a party is liable in respect of any damage , and so potentially in the position of being able to claim or having to make contribution , ‘ whatever the legal basis of his liability , whether tort , breach of contract , breach of trust or otherwise . ’
13 We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing .
14 That summer of 1984 was very hot , with successive weeks of clear skies and sunny days , but so early in the morning there was mist in the air and the grass was still wet .
15 The flash-point came , as so often in the past , in the car industry , with Ford workers , members of the TGWU , deciding to smash the 5 per cent guideline with calls for a minimum pay rise of £20 a week and associated fringe benefits .
16 The registers of Giovanni Scriba , the first of the series , show us this world already in being ; but as so often in the economic history of the age , light dawns as we say farewell .
17 As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary .
18 Time alone will tell whether these initiatives will significantly add to the drive towards improved VFM in central government , or , as so often in the past , will in the end have little effect .
19 In this way , as so often in the past , even in the throes of revolution and civil war Siberia once more demonstrated the intimate and inextricable connection between its own internal fortunes , the sufferings and achievements of its people and the historical development of Russia as a whole .
20 It is your land , Creggan , it is yours … ’ and she spoke to him gently as so often in the past he had spoken to her .
21 Innovation , as so often in the market itself , is seen primarily within these received terms .
22 As so often in the past , our Government are stuck in the defensive mud .
23 AS so often in the past , a major sporting event is set to give Northern Ireland a morale boost at just the right time .
24 But when the end comes it may well , as so often in the past , be bloody , both for her and her party .
25 ( Incidentally , note that as so often in the analysis of deixis , these various examples involve the overlapping organizations of the five basic categories of deixis : thus greetings usually involve temporal , person and discourse deixis ; demonstratives both space and person ; vocatives both person and social deixis ; and so on . )
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