Example sentences of "and [vb -s] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her pouch has a muscle around its mouth which contracts like a draw-string and shuts so tightly when she goes into the water that her young are in no danger of drowning . |
| 2 | The motives for seeking office are partly that the life of a backbench MP soon becomes unsatisfactory and offers so little scope for achievement , for registering even the smallest impact on a restricted area of.public life , that the average MP looks with envy on any minister who has a positive job to perform , however limited the field . |
| 3 | However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next . |
| 4 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 5 | fighting , yeah , well they finally get Spender and the bloke from the Sweeney and the trying to shoot him but Spender 's going that wo n't work , they do n't things like that any more cos they ca n't use shooters yeah , and then this flash guy comes up and goes so what are you gon na do |
| 6 | This is equally important and has so proved throughout ballet history . |
| 7 | She gives out so much and has so much to teach us . ’ |
| 8 | This is caused by the slow leaching of elements from the unstable early soda glasses , and has so far proved impossible to replicate . |
| 9 | This year 's best seller was Save The Earth by Jonathan Porritt which was published simultaneously in 17 countries in local languages and has so far sold more than 500,000 copies . |
| 10 | His work remains largely in the hands of private collectors , and has so far escaped the reassessment and appreciation give to fellow Cubists Picasso , Braque and Leger in recent years . |
| 11 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 12 | If one has to resort to such an intentional framework in order to make sense of the behaviour , in order to explain what the creatures are doing and why , and has so to resort after exhausting all possibilities of more austere , less anthropomorphic frameworks of explanation , then one is on the route to linguistic meanings . |
| 13 | The domestic programme kicked off in December and has so far rounded up 32 resellers out of a desired 50 with access to key accounts , Unix expertise and a vertical orientation . |
| 14 | The ratio between the number of contracts in the two legs of a spread can be termed ‘ the spread ratio ’ ( denoted p ) , and has so far been unity . |
| 15 | The legitimacy of present-day regimes depends to an overwhelming extent , and has so depended since the end of the Second World War , upon the effective promotion of a high rate of economic growth ; and if that rate becomes increasingly difficult to sustain , and tends to decline , as a result of both social and physical limits to growth , what will take its place as a legitimating purpose for governments ? |
| 16 | ‘ That the spy here must have special means of conveying such information to his master and has so far failed to use it . |
| 17 | It was flown by Benjamin , two days before Christmas 1991 , and has so far not shown signs of problems associated with the originals . |
| 18 | She 's such a sweet little girl and has so much energy . |
| 19 | Because it 's not every day , not even every decade , that a new car appears which bucks so many trends and owes so little to prevailing thinking . |
| 20 | It lasts 40 minutes and contains so much inventive material in its one-movement , arch-like structure that one sometimes feels Holloway did not know what to do with it all , a pleasing problem for any composer today ! |
| 21 | Everybody else in cricket claims to have been aware and says so readily . |
| 22 | But I can see circumstances in which a patient is unwilling to have certain procedures carried out and says so under the impression that in any event the emergency which would bring those procedures into play will not happen . |
| 23 | He finds no pleasure in the behaviour of the Romans after the destruction of Corinth and says so ( Book 38 ) . |
| 24 | In every society human beings come together in groups and subgroups so that their social and physical environment can be modified to improve the quality of life ( in food , shelter and leisure ) . |
| 25 | The new journal will encourage the publication of the essential information on screening performance and costs so that rational decisions can be made on screening practice . |
| 26 | The latter area is developing so rapidly , and sees so many new initiatives , that its shape is still relatively unclear and the techniques are still being refined ; but they are firmly based on the much longer experience gained through co-operation in the civil area . |
| 27 | Coleridge 's treatment of the topic is so varied , and takes so many forms , that to merely cite ‘ Creativity ’ as the subject matter of the poetry is to limit the range of Coleridge 's exploration . |
| 28 | Looking back at the works of Marx and Engels so far examined we can see that these leave a fairly clear picture concerning some topics , and major uncertainties concerning others . |
| 29 | Whenever the so-called yield gap ( long minus short rates ) goes negative , and stays so for longer than two business quarters , past experience suggests that the banks get badly bruised . |
| 30 | It 's treated like a child and gets so jealous . |