Example sentences of "[coord] so [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a minute or so repeat this procedure if necessary . |
| 2 | These tourists ordered not only busts of themselves but replicas and versions of the artist 's fourteen or so separate ideal works including : ‘ Eve Tempted ’ ( 1839–42 ) ; the ‘ Greek Slave ’ ( 1841–1843 ) ; ‘ Proserpine ’ ( 1843 ; 1844–49 ) ; ‘ America ’ ( 1848–9 ) and ‘ California ’ ( 1850 ) . |
| 3 | The middle years of the fourteenth century saw the change from mail armour to plate , while the coming century or so witnessed many improvements in design , so that arrows , bolts , and pikes were met with glancing surfaces which , like the changes in architecture intended to counter the effect of the cannon ball , caused the deflection of the missile away from its target . |
| 4 | Do you have a friendly dog , and an hour or so spare each week ? |
| 5 | It will release a dozen or so films this year with an average cost of $5m , all aimed at audiences too small for the big studios to chase . |
| 6 | The dozen or so rounds included music , sport , history , geography , art and literature but Crawley waited for the film , TV and theatre questions before playing their joker . |
| 7 | In recent years it has become the practice in leases granted for more than five years or so to contain some machinery for enabling the rent to be reviewed , either continuously or at periodic intervals . |
| 8 | As these changes in electrical potential may be very small in relation to fluctuations in ongoing EEG activity the usual procedure is to use a computer to sum the potentials during the half-second or so following each presentation of the evoking stimulus so as to produce an average value . |
| 9 | Having once negotiated the hurdle of the initial course it was not so difficult to persuade those who held the money bags to allow me to fly the aircraft every six months or so to maintain some sort of standard in flying up-to-date jet transports . |
| 10 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 11 | Continue writing this scenario for two or so double-spaced typewritten pages . |
| 12 | The purpose of a tie is not , as you might think , merely to hold a stem upright , but also to hold it firmly away from the stake and so avoid any possibility of chaffing or rubbing . |
| 13 | Then an attempt can be made to examine possible changes to the system and so influence social policy as a result of the first-hand experience of the clients . |
| 14 | The theory is primarily inductive in nature and so lacks explanatory value but it may have helped to counter the trend towards specialization in science . |
| 15 | We both know that Pampers Ultra nappies are drier , but did you know that they use 30% less wood pulp and so use less trees ? |
| 16 | Down there they will escape the buffetings of the storms to come and there too , where temperatures are much lower , their bodily process will slow down and so use less energy at a time in the year when there is little for these animals to eat . |
| 17 | Other states now plan , despite federal disapproval , to introduce SW transmission and so to broadcast longer distances . |
| 18 | They could not rely on support from all of their members and the TUC nor could they call out the membership so as to hit other newspapers and so bring indirect pressure to bear on Shah . |
| 19 | Or would African governments control the press and so prevent alternative voices from being heard ? |
| 20 | Another Royal Bank policy , to prevent reporting accountants from then undertaking the receivership and so prevent potential conflicts of interest , was also said to be too restrictive . |
| 21 | This might be in the long-term interests of English football , if the FA exercised their authority to discourage greedy club chairmen from out-shouting moderate colleagues , and so prevent acceptable reform from deteriorating into a reckless gold rush . |
| 22 | Using untreated natural materials which allow the building to ‘ breathe ’ , and so prevent damp setting in . |
| 23 | As the real value of falls , wealth-holders are induced to switch to real assets , such as houses , cars and other consumer durables : this will exert upward pressure on prices of real assets and so make inflationary conditions worse . |
| 24 | They could take over the duties of nominated bodies , for example those for hospitals and water , and so make these services subject to democratic accountability and , in general , it is argued that they would strengthen popular interest and involvement in public affairs . |
| 25 | Their word-recognition skills are so finely developed that they may take insufficient notice of orthography while reading , and so develop poor memories of how words are constructed when it comes to spelling them . |
| 26 | This would result in his rhythms running more slowly when he was interested and more quickly when he was bored ( because he would go to bed earlier due to the lack of something interesting to do and so require less sleep ) . |
| 27 | To return to Molla Fenari , one can not then determine with any certainty the date of his journey to Egypt since it is impossible to assert confidently which of the seemingly contradictory facts or sets of facts-Ibn Hajar 's statement that he made the journey in 778 , Taskopruzade 's statement that he went in company with Seyyid Serif , Taskopruzade 's association of Seyyid Serif 's arrival in Karaman with Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's death , and so on-deserves most weight , though perhaps the specific nature of Ibn Hajar 's date argues in its favour while , equally , the slight suspicion which always attaches to attempts to associate great figures of the past argues against the association of Molla Fenari and Seyyid Serif . |
| 28 | Admittedly there were still major reservations , not least the fear that an East–West Summit might generate unrealizable public expectations , and so weaken popular support for a strong defence against communism . |
| 29 | 1985 : 1205 ) and so requires special attention : ( 172 ) Have a man go through this desk and all papers , and collect every record and scrap of evidence around . |
| 30 | We are moving towards a system where a choice will be made and that choice will become reality because the money will follow the patient and so enable that patient to be treated . |