Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What precisely he did with himself all day long she never could fathom , but he was not in her company above two hours or so each day . |
| 2 | Their bosses are often bright but similarly inexperienced 29-year-old vice presidents with wardrobes from Brooks Brothers and so little credit training they would have trouble with a simple retail installment loan . |
| 3 | Also fewer farm workers are needed in the rural areas and so some move to the towns . |
| 4 | With so many mountains and so much snow , it 's not surprising that the Swiss have become expert skiers . |
| 5 | In their 1958 diet ( which did not yet include so many top feature films or so much news ) , men gave their highest preferences to sport , plays , news , travel , variety , documentaries , westerns and current affairs , and their lowest to serious music , religion and science . |
| 6 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 7 | Yet shrinking economies mean falling tax revenues and so larger budget deficits and more government debt . |
| 8 | Having so many bends and so much climbing in the thin air however , it is quite demanding on vehicle and driver . |
| 9 | She had partied with Andrew Jean , Cheeks and So Long Suin the night before last , and Herman had n't even tried to clear up . |
| 10 | But they were very reluctant to attend antenatal classes and so this club had been set up in response to this . |
| 11 | It is partly because of this early extensive experience of stories that so much writing in primary schools is in story form . |
| 12 | At the first hearing the judge held that the public was concerned to see that a great public service acted lawfully and fairly towards its officers and so judicial review was available . |
| 13 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 14 | It is only too easy to find minor errors in a publication which contains so many names and so much information , but these are the very features likely to lead to the book being treated as a reference by local historians for years to come . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , behind the crowd scenes that so mesmerized television , the day did not prove an overwhelming success for the TUC . |
| 16 | There is a substantial overlap here with the fiduciary controls and so this issue will be considered below , and in more detail in Chapter 9 where the extent to which the legal rules are tolerant of expenditure for ‘ socially responsible ’ purposes will be examined . |
| 17 | Furthermore , during periods of inflation money incomes will normally rise together with prices and so more money will be required simply to purchase the same collection of goods and services . |
| 18 | Firstly Muslims ( like Christians and unlike Hindus ) have set prayers which should be said during the day , so that Christian prayers can be regarded as a threat or at least an alternative to Islam , and secondly , while Hindu and Sikh parents often regard Christian prayers for their children as so much water off a duck 's back , Muslims , again like Christians or religious Jews , object to any other religious influence on their children . |
| 19 | If firms find that they are not producing enough to satisfy demand , they will experience an unwanted fall in their inventories and so this time will attempt to increase production and hire more workers . |
| 20 | Glasses behave as they do because , while they are cooling , they are so viscous that the molecules do not have time to sort themselves out into crystals and so cool glass is a solidified liquid , not a crystalline solid . |
| 21 | In these days of dwindling research funds and increased competition , what better way of disposing of rivals than by characterising papers or proposals as so much chaff ? |
| 22 | Going northwards along the Via Flaminia , about five miles or so past Spoleto , a signpost on the right points to Poreta . |
| 23 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |