Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And things have gone on since then and the band still plays , er they have not the easiest task of finding people , because of change and so on , but er their families and friends and , and even some of the youngsters that learn at school that , a fireman 's friends and relatives have joined the band and they play out in the parks and they , and they play in the spar pavilion and they , they provide concerts for people , and Christmas times they play in the town . |
| 2 | The proofs of purchase remain the same , of course , but the dealer is in a position to take care of installation and so forth for those of a nervous disposition . |
| 3 | No less that £3,559 had been raised by the branches in various ways — £2,616 from members ' subscriptions and students ' fees , £617 from socials , rummage sales and other fund-raising activities , £53 from sales of literature and so on . |
| 4 | This normally needs to be fairly short , but contain enough basic information , power of description , use of words , style of text and so on . |
| 5 | The third colour roughs , complete with borders , indications of text and so on , incorporated all corrections , species substitutions and the final positions and the size of each species was clearly indicated . |
| 6 | Yes and take control of them in terms of direction and so on . |
| 7 | Lisabeth agreed with my navigating for once , but then she and Fenella were sat in the back like Royalty , ready to wave to the crowds , the deserted Houses of Parliament and so on . |
| 8 | It used to seem to me that the different ways I felt sometimes about ideas , courses of action and so on were like the differing political moods that countries go through . |
| 9 | The point here is not merely that full employment creates a scarcity of labour and so automatically puts up its price , not such that the unions negotiating with already willing and , indeed , anxious buyers would remain relatively passive as buyers bid against one another . |
| 10 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 11 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 12 | This has to be based on an understanding of the code of ethics , working to an agreed code of practice and so on , and Ann will be saying more on this . |
| 13 | People think , well now , here 's a man who 's been accused of fraud and so forth and shortly after that it comes out that he 's given a big thing to the government . |
| 14 | The use of monopoly power obtained through the creation of closed shops , regulation of the terms of apprenticeship and so on is comparable to the use of monopoly power by corporations in a position to exercise it . |
| 15 | It is on the face of it a very simple amendment to a quite a small and in some sense insignificant piece of legislation that is n't , erm I hope members would agree that by changing that piece of legislation to say that if you 're a trader you must display who you are and how people can get hold of you if the have a problem about products they buy from you , will not be too burdensome erm in these days of deregulation and so forth but on the other hand would help enforcements considerably and would also enable people to pursue their own remedies where they are dissatisfied with what they bought . |
| 16 | It is so perfectly scripted , so beautifully acted , so full of humanity and so stomach-clutchingly funny , that it makes almost every contemporary TV comedy look wan . |
| 17 | After lending him some clubs for a series of lessons and practice , the professional can successfully advise him what type of shaft , weight , lie , thickness of grip and so forth is appropriate in his case . |
| 18 | Timoney ( 1987 ) reports on a study undertaken to examine the current control of infection practices in a community unit of management , and makes some recommendations regarding improved communication with hospital staff , use of protective clothing , wound care , practices related to the use of catheters and drainage systems , disposal of equipment and so on . |
| 19 | They would carry out an initial assessment , based on an evaluation of your lifestyle , age , level of anxiety and so on . |
| 20 | systems are rarely tested in a comparable way , for example in terms of actual input , number of writers , size of vocabulary and so on ; |
| 21 | You are so shit-scared of homosexuality and so utterly stupid , small-minded and screwed-up that your only reaction to ‘ faggots ’ is that ‘ every one of them should be electrocuted or shot ’ . |
| 22 | Consultation may involve determining precisely why an employee objects to the move and exploring possible ways of overcoming these problems , for example providing travelling facilities or expenses , altering hours of work and so on . |
| 23 | and that was what , I mean if they had erm decided to take more te point of view and to increase production through improved methods of farming and so on , that prob erm I mean we can see that that would 've created higher yields and that , because we 've assessed the situation now |
| 24 | It was argued that a lengthy period within a mental hospital could itself produce symptoms of social disorientation , apathy , loss of initiative and so on , which amounted to institutional neurosis , an illness that could persist long after the original illness had cleared up . |
| 25 | One , the one section , one section of it , it 's all women clothes and lace ware and beautiful clothes and so on , you know it 's a market but you know and little places of pottery and so on and then the next section you go down this old market , there 's a old big square and you walk on there and you 're talking about , you go to buy avocados over here , you 're buying sixty and seventy pence for one , and you 're paying sixty pence for about bloody six over there |
| 26 | It did not solve his problem but the poor fellow had to make out his report and he had to find some element of evidence and so far he had n't got much to write down . |
| 27 | If Charlie had triggered it there 'd have been a big back-up of propaganda and so on . |
| 28 | So it was nonetheless interesting recently to undergo a full battery of professional and occupational psychology tests which found me to be thoroughly rounded in skills and attitudes , a good communicator both normally and at times of stress and so on . |
| 29 | Then a layer of onions , another of meat and so on , finishing with a layer of onions . |
| 30 | Greed is the least of the problems , though the administration was not amused when Israel pushed its luck by suggesting that to help with its Gulf expenses — missile damage , the cost of the prolonged military alert , loss of tourism and so on — America might like to double the $3 billion it already gives Israel each year . |