Example sentences of "[coord] so [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 2 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 3 | This is in spite of the emerging medical consensus that people who drink up to four drinks or so a day live longer and are less likely to suffer from heart disease than either abstainers or heavy drinkers . |
| 4 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 5 | In 1050 or so the abbot announced that the body of St Mary Magdalene , no less , had been discovered in the crypt . |
| 6 | Dizzy Liston had won the cruiser on a bet , or so the story went . |
| 7 | I was going to finish there without saying any more because i cant be arsed writing , but basically there is a rich business man who has remained in the background because he dislikes Howard.Once Howard leaves , the money should come rolling in , or so the story goes . |
| 8 | In the past week or so the Sheikh has won the Coronation Cup with Opera House and the Oaks with Intrepidity . |
| 9 | How lovable we are — or so the myth goes — is tightly interwoven with how beautiful we are . |
| 10 | IEEE 754 floating point for data sharing with other RISC systems is available and , you will all be relieved to hear that UMAX V is fully Posix certified , or so the company says . |
| 11 | IEEE 754 floating point for data sharing with other RISC systems is available , and , you will all be relieved to hear that UMAX V is fully Posix certified , or so the company says . |
| 12 | ‘ Like Fitzosbert , he liked young boys , the softer and more pliant the better , or so the whisper says . |
| 13 | Suicides , or so the coroner declared . ’ |
| 14 | Or so the world calls it . |
| 15 | She was the girl with everything — fame , riches and most of all the undiluted love of her new husband — or so the world believed . |
| 16 | In the last decade or so the area has become fairly well known as the centre of production of red wine which has risen in the hierarchy of wines of Languedoc : it should achieve further fame for its ponts naturels . |
| 17 | Or so the packet said . |
| 18 | It is a waste of skills , demeaning to the status of the individual and a deterrent to the recruitment of high quality entrants or so the argument goes . |
| 19 | For a long time the standard has been stuck at 300 dots per inch — the eye can not resolve a single do smaller than this , or so the theory goes — but we are now beginning to see 400dpi , 600dpi and 800dpi printers . |
| 20 | For a millennium or so the Bugis have followed the monsoon trading cycle — surging east on the west monsoon all the way to Aru , at the forbidding lip of New Guinea 's swamps , and west again on the east monsoon beyond Borneo all the way to Sumatra . |
| 21 | John Allison , formidable fund raiser for muscular dystrophy research , has 3,000 plastic duckettes in his garage ( or so the canard has it . ) |
| 22 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 23 | After an hour or so the pungency diminishes . |
| 24 | Much to my surprise he was just at the point of actively seeking more support , and so a relationship began between church and community association which has developed and grown … as has , incidentally , the friendship between their respective leaders . |
| 25 | By 1923 , the rise of the Saudi Kingdom presented a new threat to stability , and so a convention fixed the border between the emirate of Kuwait and Iraq , which had just been created under a British mandate . |
| 26 | Ageism seems to be partly triggered off by a fear of becoming old and dependent , and so a reluctance to identify or even empathise with the oldest people . |
| 27 | and so a woman having a child on her own without a partner I think that 's that 's the biggest fear that th erm that society sees in artificial insemination of any kind . |
| 28 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 29 | There may be a collecting bias against the foot bones , however , because they are small and easily overlooked , and so a comparison has been made here between the proximal and distal limb elements , the former being the femur and humerus , and the latter represented by the tibia and radius ( values for ulna are very similar ) . |
| 30 | But in fact every creative and inventive and imaginative activity ( including that of inventing new tools ) is better done with the help of ‘ technology ’ , and so a failure to familiarize children at school with the use of such technology inhibits their imaginative potential , as well as making them incompetent and virtually unemployable when they leave school . |