11.   If life is hard on humans, of course, it is hardly less so for the birds.

12.   If the death penalty is a waste of time for cops, it should be so for us.

13.   It had been so for seven years, more than two without heat or hot water.

14.   It has been so for the past five years.

15.   It may be so for the month, and maybe the season.

16.   It seems so for now, as the Nets finally have a draft pick they can be proud of.

17.   It had been so for generations.

18.   Loew says that while agriculture may be big business in states where other vet schools are, it is not so for Massachusetts.

19.   Nearly all electric utilities are state-regulated monopolies, and have been so for most of this century.

20.   Not only that, but what he makes is invariably useful and will be so for years to come.