Example sentences of "[conj] so [det] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He returned home only for a week or so each month and spent most of his time in his bathroom , which contained a colour television , telephones and a fully stocked cocktail bar . |
| 2 | But sometimes it will have no effect on fitness , or so little effect that its fate is decided by chance and not by selection . |
| 3 | It is particularly pleasing that so much thought and work by the QC team should generate such enthusiasm from all who saw the results . |
| 4 | It did not matter that so much plant and machinery , and so many factories , were destroyed in the war , because the skills of the people were not destroyed ; they remained , to recreate the industrial strength which we once again admire and respect . |
| 5 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 6 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 7 | Because so little lesbian or gay pornography is produced in this country , HM Customs & Excise play a large part in the policing of our lives . |
| 8 | But because so much money and technical faith had been invested in the project no one thought to check the information elsewhere or suspect that the system might be fallible . |
| 9 | After so much delay and frustration it was being driven at speed , and so zipped across her vision in one swift-moving moment . |
| 10 | After so much huffing and puffing , inaction now would be seen not just by Serbs but by other potential ethnic-cleansers as a green light to press ahead . |
| 11 | And about something as important as so much land and money he would speak with correctitude . |