Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 2 | It is doubtful that the 1703 visitors were looking at ‘ pickle ’ since the anthropoid shell fits so tightly that no additional liquid could have been introduced . |
| 3 | The rather woolly nature of these claims aside , readers might be forgiven for wondering why , if the Cuk converter offers so many desirable features , it is not more commonly used . |
| 4 | Indeed , Eisenman goes so far as to suggest that the families of Jesus and John the Baptist may even have been related to that of Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots at the time of Jesus 's birth . |
| 5 | All this is a far cry from the usual tuck ribs and jacquards which the Duomatic knits so beautifully . |
| 6 | If the trial goes so badly that the plaintiff wants to take the money out during it he must , as was decided in Gaskins v British Aluminium Co Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 524 , make an application to do so , and he must have the defendant 's consent even to make the application . |
| 7 | Hitachi was one of six Japanese companies invited to invest in Kaleida ( CI No 1,931 ) , and of the other five , only Toshiba Corp has so far stuck its head above the parapet with an agreement with Apple to license Kaleida technology and use it in jointly developed products ; others invited to join were Matsushita Electric Industrial Co , Sharp Corp , Sony Corp and NEC Corp . |
| 8 | British Rail has so far totally failed to do so . |
| 9 | Your heart beats so much you think you will choke , you feel sick , your innards churn , you shake , you sweat , you 're pale and weak . |
| 10 | This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights . |
| 11 | so what 's the winning formula … how come Swindon has so many young golfing greats … |
| 12 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 13 | For these reasons I conclude that as a matter of interpretation the powers of the Director do not cease , as regards the questioning of the person under investigation , when he is charged ; that the principle of common sense , expressed in the maxim generalia specialibus non derogant , entails that the general provisions of the Code yield to the particular provisions of the Act of 1987 in cases to which that Act applies ; and that neither history nor logic demands that any qualification of what Parliament has so clearly enacted ought to be implied . |
| 14 | An in vivo uptake of polypeptides by human enterocytes has so far not been demonstrated , however . |
| 15 | Q Your long hair looks so healthy . |
| 16 | The proliferation of this literature has so simplified going into our wilderness areas that readers are literally taken by the hand . |
| 17 | Ludwig is also the Emperor 's bodyguard and his mere presence has so far proven enough to discourage any attempts on the Emperor 's life . |
| 18 | Meat-eating causes so many problems . ’ |
| 19 | The current project will extend previous work by presenting the homograph primes so briefly that the subjects are not consciously aware of them . |
| 20 | Pausanias does not consider the authorship of the metopes , but the difference of approach we noticed between the two groups corresponds so exactly to the difference between the gables that we can safely postulate one designer for the sculptures at each end of the building ; but can it be one man who designed both ? |
| 21 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 22 | West Germany has so far denied , although with a detectable degree of ambiguity , that any deal was made , preferring to point to the humanitarian reasons for allowing an evacuation of the embassy , and the pressure supposedly exerted on East Germany by the Soviet Union to bring the occupation to a speedy end . |
| 23 | … the city of Chichester doth so fast decay and run to ruine , and the multitude inhabiting there so fast growe too beggary that except for remedy thereof some speedy order bee taken it is very likely the multitude of poor in the liberty of that city increasing will cause the better sorte ( being few that can contribute towards the releefe of the poore ) by reason of charges to wex weery of inhabiting the city . |
| 24 | Norman Mailer thinks so |
| 25 | But it was also a religious movement : the invasion by Christian knighthood of the infidel world ; it aroused the savagery for which war in the name of religion has so often been the excuse . |
| 26 | Then he tells me about the clothes allowance , and then I know why Sue looks so dishy three times a week , and then I start to salivate because you get to keep them ! |
| 27 | The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis . |
| 28 | The fighting has so disrupted the country that some observers believe it may divide between north and south along ethnic lines , or into a patchwork of Islamic fiefdoms controlled by the Mujahideen tribal warlords . |
| 29 | The Advanced Courses Development Programme has so far involved two phases of pilot courses , each phase having represented a stage in the progression from the current Advanced Courses system to a system based on the principles in the Policy Paper . |
| 30 | A simple , non-invasive method which could be used in clinical pharmacology to monitor the close relationship between these two variables has so far been lacking . |