Example sentences of "[conj] so [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seven virtues put together the three theological virtues which arise from man 's relationship to God as his creator , and are the condition of all Christian action — faith , hope and charity — with the four classical virtues which relate to man as a social being : justice towards others , prudence in distinguishing good from evil in the world , fortitude in all circumstances , " whethir so betides " and temperance to achieve a balanced life-style to " lyff skillwisely [ with discretion ] als the lawe techis " . |
| 2 | Or so says the North Korean delegation leader , Li Han Bok . |
| 3 | Or so says The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook ( Grafton Books , £4.99 ) . |
| 4 | We have a Prime Minister with un-Thatcherlike understatement , and wily pragmatism and body language of the friendly bank manager next door , or so says an article in today 's Guardian . |
| 5 | Of the half dozen or so packages available the two sent for test were InteCalc and InteWord ; a spreadsheet and word processor respectively . |
| 6 | The 15 or so parties that claim to speak for British Muslims are constantly at war with each other . |
| 7 | Firstly let me say that I do n't climb much these days — about a hundred or so routes a year , mostly soloed and always in trainers . |
| 8 | Or so goes the conventional wisdom . |
| 9 | Valladolid , Salamanca , Toledo , and Segovia were administrative and ecclesiastical capitals , glorified market towns with hat and soap factories , a hundred or so looms , flour mills , and brickyards . |
| 10 | It will release a dozen or so films this year with an average cost of $5m , all aimed at audiences too small for the big studios to chase . |
| 11 | The dozen or so rounds included music , sport , history , geography , art and literature but Crawley waited for the film , TV and theatre questions before playing their joker . |
| 12 | It 's the main ‘ motorway ’ through the city , and there are a dozen or so stalls on the Rialto selling souvenirs — including the painted masks you 'll see on sale all over the city . |
| 13 | An assistant education officer is in charge of one of the half dozen or so branches into which the work of the education service is divided , such as secondary education or further education . |
| 14 | Add the JESUS AND MARY CHAIN masterminded ROLLERCOASTER package takes to the highways and student halls of America , what was once a moulding musical chrysalid on its underpowered UK outing earlier this year has verily pupated into a sun-blocking butterfly of excellence — or so reckons a well and truly won-over ANDREW COLLINS . |
| 15 | It is a weakness in Dunn 's useful book Baptism in the Holy Spirit that he sweeps aside these dozen or so references to the Spirit in the first three chapters of Luke and insists that the kingdom did not come until the baptism of Jesus . |
| 16 | But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world . |
| 17 | It has been suggested that their slow decline in the last I00 million years or so has been caused by the commensurate rise in diversity of filter-feeding bivalve molluscs , which ousted them from their former habitats . |
| 18 | That would certainly make a welcome change , since the weakness of trade over the last year or so has clearly deepened the recession . |
| 19 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 20 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 21 | It takes a few moments to adjust — one moment one is dry , wearing dry swimming trunks and walking about , and the next one is progressively getting wetter ( including the swimming trunks , which somehow seems particularly inappropriate ) — and it 's only when half a length or so has been swum that the whole thing seems ordinary again . |
| 22 | Cubby has been associated with the Dundee Club for over 30 years , and for the past 15 years or so has been football representative on the Regional Committee of the Sports Association/Staff Club . |
| 23 | The last decade or so has seen significant changes in patterns of employment . |
| 24 | One of the dominant themes in the redistribution of population in the Western World over the past twenty years or so has been the dispersal of population from large cities to medium and small-sized settlements . |
| 25 | Much RE writing in the past 20 years or so has centred on the raising of ultimate questions , and there has also been an insistence on developing in pupils skills of understanding and of handling these questions . |
| 26 | One of the most remarkable discoveries arising from oceanographic research over the past two decades or so has been the youth of oceanic sediments and the underlying basaltic crust . |
| 27 | What has been the subject of radical , almost revolutionary , change over the past decade or so has not been the civic culture but the perceptions of that culture . |
| 28 | The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions . |
| 29 | THE most important news for the economy in the last week or so has not been Mr Lamont 's Budget , nor the Government 's travails over the Maastricht treaty , but the challenge to President 's Yeltsin 's Government in Russia . |
| 30 | But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta . |