Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | That awful thing that so many groups get themselves involved in , when they 're on a plane and they do a gig and they do n't even know what city they 're in , he 'd manage to avoid . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , these ultra-light pumices sink in water , since there is so little basaltic material and so much air space that all the air spaces are interconnected , and water can fill the whole mass . |
| 3 | Er and that 's been quite successful , about twenty five or thirty chief executives , chairman come to that lunch er each each quarter or so er we hosted about six of us and it 's a tremendous opportunity to get to know and be known er in the business community . |
| 4 | No further assessment of papal revenues was apparently undertaken until the compilation by Benedict , canon of St Peter 's , some half century or so later , which was finished before the death of Innocent II in 1143 . |
| 5 | She never uses the central heating system , only turns on a single bar of her electric fire for about half an hour and then off again for another half hour or so . |
| 6 | This meant that school-children taking ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ levels were not moved during this crucial time and so disruption to schooling did not present a major problem for parents . |
| 7 | One small thing led to another bigger thing and so on and so forth until — well , here I am . ’ |
| 8 | Sure , there are differences , they 've got this one-eyed machine and so on , but basically it 's the same thing , and we even tell them it 's going to end in the same way with the raft capsizing . |
| 9 | The whole program is based on a system of menus and sub menus , so whatever you select from the main menu will in most cases lead you to a sub menu , which may in turn lead you to another sub menu and so on , until the necessary choices have been made . |
| 10 | The 1921 Act revoked this unworkable requirement and so condoned the concept of test auditing and , in more recent times , the adoption of a systems-based audit . |
| 11 | whom he could trust , and he needed my youth to support him at this difficult time and so , like a fool , I had believed him and flown |
| 12 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 13 | If you want to know something , that 's why I let you do the ordering this last year or so . |
| 14 | I weep to hear of this latest affliction and so unexpected with him in the prime of his life and never an illness and being a big strong man . |
| 15 | We got 10–15 this past week or so : you 're all very welcome . |
| 16 | In our part of the world we keep up the brave talk for the sake of the image of the region , so that there may be at least some inward investment and so that those industrialists , small business , training centres , local enterprises and cooperatives which are struggling so hard to make a go of it , will not be discouraged from at least having a go , but there is n't much hope and conviction really . |
| 17 | He kept thinking of Lucky Lady Firelight and himself aboard , constraining that nervous power that so intrigued him . |
| 18 | His trouble was that he drank far too much strong tea and so ruined his digestive system . |
| 19 | These later die and so the carbon dioxide eventually finds its way to the sea floor as sediment . |
| 20 | And when I hit those chords really hard , there was none of that fluttering noise and so the rhythm parts became a little spankier sounding . |
| 21 | All that effort and so little reward . |
| 22 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 23 | The aim is to have prices reflect all available information and so provide reliable signals upon which investment decisions can be based . |
| 24 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 25 | In that first hour or so our excitement reached its peak . |
| 26 | I trust , I trust that if there 's going to be any question of names coming forward to be a approved locally , not selected , I hope not selected , that they will be er they 'll come from the local level at which the police authority actually functions and not from other counties without that particular area and so My Lords , I would suggest er that er the best step to go for is er Lord MacIntosh 's Amendment Number Five and his er supplements and I would suggest My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty is resisted by your Lordships because it talks about one half of the members shall be members of a relevant council and I suggest above all My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty Seven is cast into outer darkness . |
| 27 | This should leave enough space to program any remaining technique and so on without overflowing the memory . |
| 28 | It would be the same for Rory — she 'd always known she 'd give her heart only once , and that was why she had n't played the love game with the same reckless abandon as so many of her contemporaries . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's vital to have a communications network running through the team and the ideal would be for the team leader to be consulted before any part of the business gets involved in any new activity and so can recommend whatever risk management measures are necessary including any special insurance , ’ Hardie said . |
| 30 | For Augustine , mystical experience operated in the gap between the Creator and creature , enabling man to recognise his own true nature and so come to a knowledge of God — a process possible only because of the Incarnation , the love poured out from the being of God to his creatures which revealed how He could be known . |