Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The $16m or so net proceeds will be used for working capital and to repay bank debt . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I say astride , because this ridge , officially called Black Hill but known as the Cat 's Back by the locals , is truly a razorback , narrowing to a foot or so wide in places . |
| 7 | The $9m or so net proceeds will be used for debt repayment and working capital . |
| 8 | Some women find a cup of strong coffee every hour or so helpful , as it helps them pass more water . |
| 9 | Auspex Systems Inc , the Santa Clara , California developer of dedicated Network File System servers , got its initial public offering of 5m shares , 2.66m of them new , away at $12 a share , and plans to use the $30m or so net proceeds for working capital . |
| 10 | Should we be so up about going on this course or so worried about it ? |
| 11 | OPTi Inc , Santa Clara manufacturer of core logic chip sets for personal computers , got its initial public offering of 2.5m shares , 2m of them new , away at $10 a share and plans to use the $9.5m or so net proceeds to finance accounts receivable and inventory . |
| 12 | Stage lengths vary from about ten minutes or so inter-island to 45–50 minutes on the Alderney-Southampton run . |
| 13 | 3DO Inc , San Mateo , California computer-based entertainment systems designer , got its initial public offering of 2.9m shares , all new , away at $15 per share ; the $40m or so net proceeds will be used to further development of the company 's home interactive multimedia system , which it intends to license widely to third parties . |
| 14 | The $22m or so net proceeds will be used by the developer of the RobCAD line of interactive three-dimensional graphics software for the design , simulation and off-line programming of automated manufacturing systems for a range of manufacturing processes to expand marketing and for new product development . |
| 15 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 16 | The $1m or so net proceeds will be used for product development and working capital . |
| 17 | I see now how wrong I was , and yet when I told the king that without resorting to such action I would still be in the granite quarries and so unable to do his bidding , he understood and forgave me . |
| 18 | On release she went to the mayor and so powerful were her reproaches that he ‘ acknowledged the truth of her doctrine ’ and henceforth attempted to protect Quakers . |
| 19 | For example , shareholdings divided in the proportion of 66% and 34% were found to constitute joint control , as a 34% shareholding represented a minority blocking vote and so important decisions had to be taken with the consent of this minority shareholder . |
| 20 | He did not find it awkward that his own father was the tutor of the college and so responsible in a double sense for his pastoral care . |
| 21 | Lisa Stansfield and So Natural . |
| 22 | We hate them , all tweeds and so heavy . |
| 23 | Flesh and blood and so wonderful to look at . |
| 24 | In the chest they may have a dry racking , teasing , hacking cough and so sore and worse ( < ) motion ; it is similar to Bryonia and Phosphorus . |
| 25 | When I had made him as comfortable as I could — a relative term , since he was in pain with each new spasm — I cut the two blankets into strips , each one two feet or so wide . |
| 26 | In a shopping forecourt in Darwin an example of this termite architecture stands ten feet or so tall with all the presence of a work of art : a piece of high-tome sculpture of the kind that might be shortlisted for a Turner Prize . |
| 27 | A colony builds a hill in the shape of a rectangular wedge standing fifteen feet or so high with its sharp edge at the top . |
| 28 | Six feet down , there is a huge circular cellar , ten or twelve feet across and two feet or so high , quite big enough for a man to crawl into . |
| 29 | SuperMac Technology Inc , Sunnyvale , California developing photorealistic colour graphics systems for the publishing and prepress , digital video , and business productivity markets , got its issue of 1m shares away at $16.25 a share and plans to use the $15m or so net proceeds for working capital ; Montgomery Securities , PaineWebber Inc , and Volpe , Welty & Co were the lead underwriters to the issue . |
| 30 | Arrow Electronics Inc , Melville , New York distributor , got its offer of 4.9m shares , 500,000 of them new , the rest from Lex Service Plc , away at $32.50 and will use the $15m or so net proceeds for working capital . |