Example sentences of "so [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
2 | It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames . |
3 | However , the whole matter was another aspect of one of the storms in a set of teacups that accompanied the whole unhappy Profumo matter and has continued to do so for the many years since it was first raised . |
4 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
5 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
6 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
7 | So after a few words , he says , Oh well , right I 'll put you through as yard foreman from next week . |
8 | So within a few days of his grudging acceptance by his parliamentary colleagues , Law 's leadership was ratified by the throng of party notables at Leeds ; here he received a reception more typical of what was to come in the future . |
9 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
10 | Minority groups under pressure change , and do so in a few generations : they become bilingual and accept the culture of the larger society . |
11 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
12 | Korea 's Samsung will start doing so in a few weeks . |
13 | A legally aided party who is successful in proceedings has a duty to claim costs if it would be in the interests of a paying client to do so in the same circumstances . |
14 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
15 | In challenging the idea of a natural separation of spheres , the nineteenth century feminist movement took up two major positions : first , that women wishing to enter the public sphere should be able to do so on the same terms as men , and second , that women 's domestic talents and virtues should be extended to the wider sphere beyond the home . |