Example sentences of "[noun sg] so to speak " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hope 's other building projects included an abortive scheme for a ‘ Christian watering-place so to speak ’ at Bedgebury , and a slightly more successful establishment at Sheen in Staffordshire , the other Beresford estate . |
| 2 | I believe that one firm is at present training one male monotype operator , who is being taught by a woman , It is true that this evidence comes from the opposing side so to speak , but nowhere is a counter-assertion put forward by the union that men had applied to learn and been turned away . |
| 3 | One has to read all this special pleading against the light so to speak to see what was actually happening in day-to-day practice . |
| 4 | ‘ Hugh always had a little group of favourites , an in-crowd so to speak , ’ he explained to Loretta , ‘ and Jamie was definitely one of them . |
| 5 | but the brochure would still be on the desk so to speak of the sales office |
| 6 | I expect it comes naturally to you , being in the business so to speak . |
| 7 | Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth . |
| 8 | So er they 've put me out to grass so to speak . |
| 9 | Er , assisted places in playgroups with a wider scope , now in other words , you do n't have to be at the end of the line so to speak , you can have help on , er , a much softer criteria . |
| 10 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 11 | ‘ I have spoken to most captains and a lot of players and the general feeling is that we have played against sides in the past with Test players and we wanted to be able to fight fire with fire so to speak . |
| 12 | Yeah and you wo n't if , do you , wo n't have to tell 'em what you 're getting for doing it , you 're just , you 're just doing it for interest so to speak |
| 13 | In fact technically I ought to have someone else here as well , but I thought that as the sergeant knew the facts of the enquiry ( in fact he was instrumental in getting the information we 'd like to question you about ) , it would keep it in the family so to speak if he acted as my amanuensis , that 's the word , is n't it , Sergeant Pascoe ? ’ |
| 14 | The , the note is in fact er effectively the Bank of , could have endorsed it to , to a third party so to speak exactly as it would have done in any er any fiscal currency of the er of the type . |
| 15 | erm ba basically i i I do n't think it 's that bad and I mean obviously he , he 's making the picture , I would say he 's making the picture out to be f far worse than it actually is because he , he is taking an extreme sort of left point of view so to speak . |