Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the supposed punisher does not weaken a specified undesirable behaviour then it is not a punisher at all and so should not be used . |
| 2 | Some 500 applications for Alpha machines are available now , and over 2,000 will be released in the near future by 1,000 or so software developers . |
| 3 | As a proud fancy-dress winner of seven or so . |
| 4 | My favourite of these was a boy of ten or so , called Clint , with a black greasy quiff of hair . |
| 5 | It was a white-faced young girl of fourteen or so , in a long dark-brown dress . |
| 6 | In the door leading to the kitchen Pumfrey noticed a girl of ten or so . |
| 7 | I graduated in 1967 and then I did postgraduate work till 1969 and so I was in a student milieu until a year before the gay movement started . |
| 8 | There have been months when he has n't found any work at all and so he returns home for short periods . |
| 9 | Continue writing this scenario for two or so double-spaced typewritten pages . |
| 10 | Civilian reactors , designed to produce power , use their fuel for longer and so produce heavier isotopes , Pu and Pu . |
| 11 | Now th he was saying that , it 's being argued here that , that very seldom is it that the punishment exceeded the crime , that they 're able to assess , look at the behaviour of the people in power before the movement er gathered pace and to , to , to assess how they er they were , how sort of humane and so on and , and by saying that depending on how you , you , you did before hand , you w you now your punishment , it will , will be a administered accordingly which is an interesting concept , I 'm not sure quite how accurate these assessments could 've been , I think really when things get going it 's er really very difficult to stop them . |
| 12 | Mrs Edna Wall remembers Mrs Bessie Forde and Mrs Cooper as leaders marching the band of 90 or so little ones in the early 1930s to outdoor meetings in different parts of the town and always , when they came to a public house , they stopped and sang : ‘ Dare to be a Daniel — ’ with a special emphasis on the words : ‘ Keep outside the public house and bring your money home . ’ |
| 13 | Afterwards we split up into various groups , and and I had another formal introduction to one of the ‘ production teams ’ ( which is really a little hamlet with a population of 200 or so near the town ) . |
| 14 | The walk was scheduled to depart from Green Park Tube , and when I arrived I found a group of thirty or so walkers already tapping their feet . |
| 15 | The only source of security , the sole refuge from this malevolent world , is in the kindred and the band , that tight little group of 100 or so other people with whom one 's life is bound up from the cradle to the grave . |
| 16 | Each major department has at its headquarters a group of 100 or so civil servants , from the grade of ‘ principal ’ up to ‘ permanent secretary ’ , who are concerned with decisions of a ‘ policy ’ kind , many of which require ministerial approval . |
| 17 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development plc . |
| 18 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development Plc . |
| 19 | ‘ WESTERN EUROPE ’ takes many forms ; but whether one looks at a group of about 10 nations , or a more complete group of 20 or so , the crucial difference from both the USA and Japan is the presence of a jumble of nation-states of different sizes and distinctive history . |
| 20 | And another quaver , those two will be tied the join taking them onto the next group of three and so on . |
| 21 | Watching every movement , and she put him on and put his blanket on the ground and he was laying there in his handful of this and so she said come to me then and she put something on the floor she said well you know you go to it , I ai n't gon na give it to you and he 's she said well no , you 've got ta try ! |
| 22 | Among injecting drug users , the peak in HIV incidence took place in 1985 and so the number of AIDS cases is still climbing . |
| 23 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 24 | The results are greeted by wild applause as one act is toppled from the lead by another and so on . |
| 25 | He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts . |
| 26 | In January 1966 , following receipt of a DES memorandum on the future of the further education system ( containing the suggestion of the designation of thirty or so ‘ polytechnic centres ’ ) , the Council ‘ welcomed the proposal of concentrating resources in a limited number of major centres ’ , as this would ‘ greatly assist the achievement of higher standards for the Council 's degrees ’ . |
| 27 | Scrambling the whole of its release schedule of 15 or so films into a sublimely muddled montage of fast edits and visual ‘ high 's , it 's incomprehensible but hypnotic . |
| 28 | Aileron forces are fine at low speeds , but as the IAS increases they get heavier , despite their balance tabs , until at 250 knots , using one 's biceps most efficiently , one can just achieve an acceptable roll-rate of sixty or so degrees per second to the left , while backhanded right rolls are truly slow rolls . |
| 29 | Hirst ( 1969 , 1974 ) divides knowledge into seven or so distinct or irreducible forms : mathematics , the physical sciences , the human sciences and history , literature and the fine arts , morals , religion , and philosophy . |
| 30 | Development of the productive forces is the basis for human development in general and so it is necessary to examine every fact of social life with this in mind . |