Example sentences of "[coord] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs . |
| 2 | Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday … |
| 3 | Of course there are lots of questions which would have to be sorted out — the difference is the Scottish Education system , & the courses offered , for a start — & you might well have doubts about cutting yourself off from your friends & so forth . |
| 4 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 5 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 6 | ‘ Beneath a sultry sky , at four o'clock , the island , boats slipping past its flank , stirring with a casual Sunday crowd enjoying the fresh air among the trees ; and these forty or so figures are endowed with a succinct , hieratic line … |
| 7 | The novel ( or so I hope ) signals a separation between author and narrator with its very first sentence : ‘ The World is what it is ; men who are nothing , who allow themselves to become nothing , have no place in it . ’ |
| 8 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 9 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 10 | Or so I keep telling myself . |
| 11 | Fewer than ten of the sixty or so pubs occupying old buildings in central York have completely escaped assault by post-war ‘ improvements ’ , and in none of these is the surviving pub interior any older than late Victorian . |
| 12 | Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’ |
| 13 | After an hour or so the pungency diminishes . |
| 14 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 15 | A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza . |
| 16 | The hostel could be tolerated for a month or so and during the interlude I would concentrate all my efforts on finding somewhere more permanent to live . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've paid in advance for another week or so , right ? ’ |
| 18 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 19 | This year 's show takes place on Saturday 31 August between 2 and 4.30pm , but do n't hang about — at 6pm sharp the Over 60 's Karate and Flower Arranging Class takes over , or so I 'm told . |
| 20 | Over the next six weeks or so , gradually reduce feeding to the recommended winter rate , and water less frequently , according to each plant 's needs . |
| 21 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 22 | Unless the failure has occurred below 50 feet or so , once the speed has been regained it is always best to apply full airbrake first to use up any excess height quickly . |
| 23 | Most modern machines have maximum launching speeds of 70 knots or so , making it relatively difficult and unusual for the launch to overspeed . |
| 24 | This time the stick is held firmly back with the aileron central , and the wing will ( usually ) continue dropping so that the glider spins for a turn or so . |
| 25 | By the time that the glider is down to 500 feet or so , an inexperienced pilot often will have forgotten the wind direction , and if he realises this it will increase his anxiety . |
| 26 | Where the countryside is more hospitable , this can be left to a thousand feet or so . |
| 27 | Since it is usual in training to make circuit patterns from 800 feet or so , inexperienced pilots are often seriously put out if they find themselves unable to do this on a field landing . |
| 28 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 29 | After a launch failure of any kind above two or three hundred feet , once the speed has been checked , it is best to turn off 90° or so in order to avoid going further from the field . |
| 30 | Furthermore , people vary in their tolerance from day to day , and it is not safe to assume that because you have been to 15,000 feet or so without oxygen before , you will be able to do it again . |