Example sentences of "[coord] so [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Wade also rebuilt the existing barracks at Ruthven and Bernera , already described , and over the next ten years or so a total of more than 30 other forts to protect his new , Roman-style , network of roads .
2 In the last ten years or so a group of enthusiastic breeders has been attempting to locate and rescue some of the coloured cattle of Wales and in 1981 a breed society for the Ancient or Coloured Cattle of Wales was set up ; its Welsh title is Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru .
3 During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers .
4 They also point out that during the past five years or so the proportion of part-time students has remained roughly constant at about one-third of the total .
5 He argues that over the last century or so the number of white-collar jobs has increased rapidly , but at the same time the skill required to do the jobs has been reduced .
6 There are difficulties assessing the child between the age of 2 and 4 years and so a range of different tests is used in an attempt to tap a wide range of the child 's skills and maintain the child 's interest and motivation to co-operate .
7 Disabled people meet substantial resistance to many choices , and so a range of communication , assertiveness and negotiation skills is needed .
8 As the child grows we aim to educate him or her in the constructive use of leisure time and so a range of extra-curricular activities is offered .
9 Language is made up of units that may be repeated sequentially ( e.g. papa ) or combined recursively ( e.g. Bill saw John in the car ) and so a way of recording competing interpretations is needed which distinguishes between different tokens of the same unit .
10 It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated .
11 The Convention was a treaty entered into by the United States and so a part of federal law pre-empting State rules .
12 And so a couple of hours later , it was Burkett who drove the coach and four to the top of Dunmail Raise while Hope and Sylvia walked behind to spare the horses the effort , even though , as Burkett had pointed out , two passengers were light work for four horses .
13 Any change in position could be attributed to external factors , and so a defence of one 's own consistency could be mounted , whilst apparently changing sides from loyalism to republicanism .
14 Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed .
15 His father was probably steward of the king of Scotland as earl of Northampton , and so a baron of some standing , but not a tenant-in-chief ; Gilbert 's brother or nephew rose by marriage into this rank .
16 Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary .
17 Ciaran Fitzgerald and the team will be all too aware that they let the fans down and so a repeat of that disaster in the remaining matches is most unlikely .
18 ‘ After the war the Russians encouraged the Poles in Britain to return home and so a number of army people — including Nowak — went back .
19 The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics .
20 And so a sort of small welfare rights group began to form in the dayroom .
21 And so a lot of women continued to wear these erm rubber garments .
22 erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems .
23 The other , more plausible , avenue is to accept that the phenomena discussed would normally be established by linguistic means but that is in no way a necessary feature of them , and so no problem of principle need arise .
24 Because there exists no distinction between causing the experience by acting and the maintenance of the experience requiring action , and so no conception of acting in order to experience a something in the external world .
25 Thus unc both primitive polynomials [ by assumption and by 1.9.10 respectively ] and so the content of bdF is bd [ why ? ] whilst the content of acGH is ac .
26 This will reduce the amount of drug required and so the cost of treatment .
27 Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level .
28 Lists from specialist herb nurseries arrive , many of which give names of herb gardens in their neighbourhood open to public viewing , and so the idea of one 's own herb garden begins to take shape .
29 And so the idea of these days is just to reaffirm these erm basic principles of safety .
30 It meant that the keynote had to be informality and so the idea of a planned suburbia was almost a contradiction in terms .
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