Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] so [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour or so spent talking with other women about how weak , cruel , uncaring , lazy and insensitive their husbands were always made her tired . |
| 2 | There was still an hour or so left of debate . |
| 3 | There might be three candidates or so left , bulling into clients . |
| 4 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 5 | She stared into his eyes , those steady grey eyes that so fascinated her . |
| 6 | 9.1.1.3 the defective goods shall be returned to the Seller 's factory at the Purchaser 's expense if so requested by the Seller . |
| 7 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 8 | This study found that intermittent buzzing reminded the child to go to the lavatory and so avoided wetting in 68 per cent , but in the group when the buzzer was related to actual wetting there was a bigger improvement rate of 80 per cent . |
| 9 | Other members can be added in future if so desired . |
| 10 | It contributed to the newspaper both in terms of content and also in terms of much-needed revenue and so helped newspapers in their struggles to survive . |
| 11 | The health group started to challenge leading politicians from all the political parties and so called experts in the medical field , and it was one of the most frightening experiences of my life . |
| 12 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 13 | They , together with the custody of the young earl , were given to the dowager countess and so remained under Herbert control . |
| 14 | They , together with the custody of the young earl , were given to the dowager countess and so remained under Herbert control . |
| 15 | At the end of treatment the therapist thought that Liz would probably experience further problems in the future and so discussed with her possible ways of dealing with new difficulties . |
| 16 | Yet they could hardly express their resentment in terms of thwarted personal ambition and so preferred to see their fate as a result of ideological changes in the Party . |
| 17 | People hid their self-interest more closely when speaking before relative strangers ; they sometimes also feared reprisals and so censored their opinions . |
| 18 | She and her companion lived in a paddock of only a few acres and so required daily feed of grain and hay . |
| 19 | In an effort to recoup some of his lost prestige , he attempted to do by negotiation what he dared not attempt by force and so conceived a plan for the purchase by France of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the acquisition of which would strengthen France 's eastern frontier . |
| 20 | They set traps of silk across the flyways between the branches and so continued to take toll of the insect population . |
| 21 | As they did so , they created new service industries for their feeding , lighting , cleaning and maintenance and so offered yet more chances of employment . |
| 22 | Never mind the fact they were as comfortable as wearing two fibre-glass tubes filled with iron filings , and stank like an incontinent old sheep dog when wet , they were natural wool and so considered correct . |
| 23 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 24 | This house , now the D H LAWRENCE BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM , provides fascinating insight into the working class origins that so influenced his writing . |
| 25 | Green gave an interesting account of how this fine bird suffered at the hands of the sheep farmers who had lost lambs and so had to destroy it . |
| 26 | Note that by issuing ‘ receipts ’ in excess of gold holdings , the goldsmiths were acting as bankers and so laid the foundations of the modern ‘ fractional reserve ’ banking system . |
| 27 | He was not primarily a bacteriologist , and instead of using the standard criterion of survival of the organism , growth in culture , he measured the uptake of oxygen by the cultivated organisms over short periods and so obtained results more quickly . |
| 28 | Laski suggested that it was ‘ probably undesirable ’ for law officers to be suddenly made judges and so required to act impartially . |
| 29 | Slavery meant that whites maintained their domination over blacks and so kept a rigidly structured inequality . |
| 30 | The law as so stated has , I think , been so understood for most of this century , at least at the level of the Court of Appeal ; but it has been the subject of increasing criticism by academic lawyers , and has been departed from in significant respects in some Commonwealth countries , both by legislation and by judicial development of the law . |