Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 2 | Its strongest American card is its 44% stake in Amdahl Corp , and while IBM appears to be playing into Amdahl 's hands in the short term , Amdahl knows it has to build a big new business almost from scratch out of Unix and its Huron applications development and delivery environment if it is to grow much beyond its present $2,500m or so annual business . |
| 3 | The bottom five notes or so of the violins can be enriched by adding a bassoon or two in unison . |
| 4 | There are , however , good reasons to believe that the Earth 's radius has not increased significantly during the past 500 Ma or so . |
| 5 | Moreover , by relating this information to data on spreading rates , the directions of relative plate motions derived from the analysis of earthquakes , and palaeomagnetic evidence of continental palaeolatitudes , it has been possible to establish the direction and speed of present-day plate motions and what is probably a fairly accurate history of movements over the past 200 Ma or so ( Fig. 2.16 ) . |
| 6 | From the pattern of ocean floor magnetic anomalies it is possible to trace the movement of India northwards over the past 80 Ma or so ( Fig. 3.23 ) . |
| 7 | After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation . |
| 8 | The £3m or so net of expenses that it expects from the placing will go to eliminating existing bank loans , which stood at £952,200 on November 13 , with the balance going for working capital . |
| 9 | The $16m or so net proceeds will be used for working capital and to repay bank debt . |
| 10 | On May 3rd the Israelis sat down with two Palestinian academics , Ahmed Khalidi from Britain and Camille Mansour from France , who belong to the diaspora of 4m or so Palestinians who live outside Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 11 | Touching : We all know when something is so hot that it burns our fingers or so sharp that it hurts to touch it — but how much do we think about the other things we touch ? |
| 12 | Also Tore-Andre Flo — the young brother of Jostein Flo is supposed to train for a week or two at Sheff Utd ; but this is just a training stay — nothing to do with Sheff Utd offering him a contract or so . |
| 13 | The court will be disclined to construe a clause as excluding liability for deliberate breaches of contract or so as to defeat the whole object of the contract . |
| 14 | The official plan is for oil 's share of consumption to rise from its present 50% or so to 60% in 1990 , then to drop back to 40% by the year 2000 through increased use of natural gas both in the home and for electricity generation . |
| 15 | Creative Technology Ltd , Singapore has now formally sound-blasted its planned offering of 5m shares , 2m of them new , but does not give plans for the indicated $52m or so net proceeds . |
| 16 | So she waited , pacing about her room and going to the window every other minute to look across the harbour at the carrack which lay at anchor a cable or so from the town landing stage . |
| 17 | Five cases or so remain , for which no explanation has been given . |
| 18 | Almost at once they heard the music of the hunt — the pack and the leaders , running crosswind a furlong or so downhill from the path . |
| 19 | Those are large one day meetings for school children at fourth form level or so . |
| 20 | Luckily I had run off a faint quality copy ( like this letter ) to economise on ink cartridge use as cartridges £14 or so each . |
| 21 | Layton used to go to Leonard 's flat each morning where they would work for three hours or so , though sometimes letting the work run on through the afternoons . |
| 22 | At least I shall miss all that for a couple of hours or so . |
| 23 | What precisely he did with himself all day long she never could fathom , but he was not in her company above two hours or so each day . |
| 24 | Pompeii , approximately eight kilometres from Vesuvius , was buried over three metres deep in pumice in A.D. 79 , and the total volume ejected in the forty-eight hours or so of that eruption was probably about three cubic kilometres . |
| 25 | Here the tide level changes by 9 or 10 m up or down each six hours or so . |
| 26 | And unless you make a special effort to do something active on a weekend , then you can add another 16 hours or so to the total , making a grand total of more than 70 hours each week . |
| 27 | His entrance test was to set a four-part antiphon ( in a locked room to prevent cheating ) : he completed the task — which took some composers four hours or so — in just over half an hour , and was unanimously elected a member of the Accademia . |
| 28 | The water wheel and a fountain operate from a hoselock 1500 pump purchased fro £48 — from an electrical wholesalers ' — with a home-made prefilter made from two planting baskets and a piece of 1–¼″ plastic pipe ( due to the original foam pre-filter blocking every 8 hours or so ) . |
| 29 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 30 | Came in a couple of hours or so ago . |