Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [vb pp] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 But there are times when the analogies get stretched so far that the brain starts to lose contact with the original image .
2 FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM .
3 Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light .
4 But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers .
5 She said : ‘ Things have progressed so quickly since the initial idea last year that we are now seeking bookings a good bit earlier than expected . ’
6 THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend .
7 Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are .
8 the numbers , unc not in general constant under transformation ; but if the iterations have proceeded so far that I is in the quasi-triangular form , the trace and determinant of ( 3 ) are invariant , so that the complex roots are fixed .
9 SALARIES for university law teachers have slipped so badly and professional salaries risen so dramatically that experienced staff are being lost at an alarming rate , the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools reported this week .
10 In recent years , it has been argued that the position and powers of the Prime Minister have altered so considerably that it makes sense to talk about the rise of prime ministerial government and the transformation of the Cabinet into yet another " dignified " part of the constitution .
11 Around eighty galleries have confirmed so far that they will be attending more than this time last year and the organisers are presenting a positive front in the light of the art market recession .
12 ‘ Our preparations have gone so well that none of us can wait to get there and begin in earnest .
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