Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [conj] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More usually the allocation emerges from a pattern of related decisions including what can be reliably and economically achieved by hardware and software , what the allocated tasks look like as integrated jobs for the human operators , the skills and traditions of the available work-force , the importance of safety and reliability and so on ( Table 1.7 ) . |
| 2 | Well , pardon me for belching , but what we 're talking about here is a virtually unparalleled ( in this musical medium , at least ) honesty and open-ness that so far has hampered the Kitchens ' career like a rucksack full of rocks . |
| 3 | A common thread throughout the day was that LMS ( plus National Curriculum , records of achievement , appraisal and assessment and so on ) was clearly going to make excessive demands on the small amount of clerical time . |
| 4 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |
| 5 | The circumstances were seductive : having helped to save Somalia from itself , the Americans were persuaded to finish the job by providing a strong logistical backbone — headquarters staff , engineers , supply and maintenance and so on — to the UN force under its Turkish commander , General Cevik Bir . |
| 6 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 7 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 8 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 9 | He had searched for this assassin by silent threat and bribery but so far had discovered nothing . |
| 10 | To do this , number each article and associate each number with its own " hook " , for example , your list might begin as follows This time you associate in a ridiculous way bun and aeroplane , pew and clock , bee and carrot and so on . |
| 11 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 12 | At the workplace level , that is in stations , depots , offices and so on , there are some 1600 ‘ Local Departmental Committees ’ ( LDCs ) concerned with the details of local working and holiday arrangements , rosters , local seniority questions , health and safety and so on . |
| 13 | I find it quite ghastly being at home and not working — I LONG to get a job , and meantime , YOUR FATHER and I must be careful about money as the State only gives me £40 a week for everything including local tax ( POLL TAX ) , heating , food , gas , electricity and phone and so on . |
| 14 | Is it air pressure and , and humidity and so on ? |
| 15 | So they have a wide tax base and they can generate large sums of money if they , if they choose to do so and in different states there 's a different culture , a different attitude towards public spending and taxation and so on . |
| 16 | We all get het up about health scares , salmonella , God knows what , and pollution and so on , and we all have views on things like Sunday trading or whatever and not that we all agree on any of these things . |
| 17 | By comparison they might be , say , a quarter fat , a quarter meat and a quarter rusk and water and so forth . |
| 18 | Also we must recognize the difference between food and not-food and so on . |
| 19 | She gets these surges of anger now and then , against injustice and evil and so on , no matter how often I try to remind her about the facts of life . |
| 20 | So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady . |
| 21 | As the install routine proceeds , you 're asked for your company details — name and address and so forth , but , strangely , not your VAT details . |
| 22 | It sounds as if we could learn a great deal from Germany and Holland about , in the health service , erm because their systems by now by all statistical tests of mortality and illness and so on , seem to be doing a better job than ours . |
| 23 | We do not require lectures from Germany about federalism and union and so on ; we require Germany to put its own house in order . |
| 24 | These words are I love them , I love them , redemption , and sanctification and so on , I love them , but er we 've got ta put it in a different way . |
| 25 | My Lord , the number will be a great many , primary schools teachers are of course spe er generalists not specialists and a primary school teacher with only religious education as a specialism would be disadvantaged quite seriously in having to cope with teaching maths and English and science and history , geography , art and music and so on . |
| 26 | The former dean of the faculty of science at Addis Ababa University , Tewolde B. G. Egziabher , adds that in the book Johanson ‘ makes remarks about Ethiopian politics and culture and about the behaviour of officials in government — bribes and ignorance and so forth . |
| 27 | Er and the erm and the hose and er and and lighting and so on . |
| 28 | Some of it is done by legislation which erm fire officers have to erm put to use er and , and work to erm and then there 's a lot of good will advice and , and help that can be given , er and publicity and training and so on which comes under the big wing of fire prevention . |
| 29 | And you 'd be into time and motion and so on which I 'm sure Semina you could erm appreciate and comment on as well . |
| 30 | He made a likeness of Helen of Troy which convinced all who came to sacrifice there that the Trojan War had been well fought ; and for this famous portrait , Zeuxis had lined up the young women of Croton , and taking an ear from one , the set of chin from another , the legs , the arms and stomach and so forth of others , he had assembled his divine beauty . |