Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [conj] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work is now in progress and so far two thirds of the questionnaires have been returned . |
| 2 | TIP : When choosing a hair cut , avoid any thinning or razoring techniques as this only adds to the problem by making the hair lighter in weight and so ever more flyaway . |
| 3 | It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile . |
| 4 | Freud 's he just could n't speak Hebrew , he could only speak in Egyptian and so on and so on . |
| 5 | Before moving on to make use of the database , it was necessary to assess whether or not the data itself was valid for the organisation being studied , bearing in mind that so far the exercise had been a systems-thinking one , rather than a study of what was happening in practice . |
| 6 | She wrote an article about evangelical Christianity , in which she complained bitterly about a particular writer , a Doctor Cumming , who she said was not merely intellectually dishonest in attempting , by slipper means , to reconcile traditional Christian belief with certain new kinds of discovery in archaeology and so on , but he was also lacking in charity and the way which he hammered everybody who did n't subscribe to his particular form of religious believe did n't seem to her to be anything to do with the true spirit of Christianity , so she was discontented with that form of Victorian religion . |
| 7 | It depends on the problems and opportunities in terms of hedgerows , small scale variations in topography and so on . |
| 8 | This was ginger brown in colour and so badly fitting that only a blind man would not realise that it was a hairpiece . |
| 9 | She might repeat the procedure at another specified bank in Parish and so on until the Credit was fully utilised . |
| 10 | Damp is acceptable so long as the cellar is not in use and so long as it does not rise above the ground floor dpc . |
| 11 | ‘ The tough thing for me is not to have a particular voice or gait for a part , to have to play a guy like John , who is close to me physically and in age and so on . |
| 12 | The idea that the rest of creation is here for our benefit makes no sense biologically , but the idea is so widespread in society and so deeply ingrained in our approach to life , that it gives rise to an arrogant and destructive ‘ hubris ’ . |
| 13 | Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality . |
| 14 | There were undoubted gains for middle-class women in the nineteenth century , from a controlled access to divorce ( though one which sustained a double standard ) , the possibility of custody of children in the case of broken marriages , new rights in property and so on , and , no doubt many middle-class women , far from being ‘ redundant ’ , often participated in the major household decisions , supervised the servants , and increasingly gained access to birth control and hence a possibly less inhibited sexual pleasure . |
| 15 | I mean we have to work very hard in our own er relationship we 've had our ups and downs we 've gone through many difficult times like unemployment and even homelessness and you know we we 've gone through it but when you make your promises you say you 'll stay together for richer for poorer in sickness and in health and so on . |
| 16 | In response to interpretation the sequence is repeated in reverse and so on . |
| 17 | I think television would be as much to blame as any you know the bairns the children 's programmes are all in English and so on you can . |
| 18 | We sought , irrespective of the relevance to the particular concern , to measure improvements in the use of energy , the productivity of capital , the numbers employed and improvement in productivity and so on . |
| 19 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |