Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [verb] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately these proposals only exemplify the muddled thinking which seems so often to lie at the heart of Edinburgh 's traffic policies .
2 It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind .
3 They break the signifying chains which have so often bound the project of emancipation to a strategy of cultural assimilation .
4 Religious structures are another category which have so far escaped attention , even though temples are well-established features at many small towns .
5 We in the world campaign which has so far tried to stop armaments to South Africa and its nuclear build up we want to work if possible to build a common security er , arrangement in the region where peace will be everywhere if we can make it everywhere because the region has got so many weapons and arms and military expenditure is very easy to increase when you have growing number of nation states where the people really need food and development .
6 Bones which grow so fast need lots of calcium .
7 Project engineer Dennis Frost and his wife , Joan , launched the ambitious fund-raising effort to buy a Pegasus air bed , a specialised type which had so much helped their friend , Dottie Forrester , who was a patient at the home .
8 This is a key aspect of the refugee question which has so far received inadequate attention .
9 This is a distinctly unromantic sounding but buoyant group which has so far twirled its way round to records .
10 I sneaked a look at face , although I could scarcely see through the veiled curtain which had so mysteriously woven its way around my eyes .
11 In the year July 1797 to June 1798 Coleridge produced most of the verse for which he is now remembered , including Kubla Khan , Christabel , and The Ancient Mariner — for which Wordsworth suggested the albatross and the theme of the guilty wanderer which had so often appeared in his own recent work .
12 Fleetlands had no respect for the usual scenario which has so often rendered Alton a 2–1 win , and extended their lead in the 28th minute when John Mumford headed home Edney 's corner cross .
13 For the British driver , it would be just one more step towards the world title which has so far eluded him .
14 But it was a sign that those wartime conditions which had so much restricted him were being lifted when , in October 1946 , The Family Reunion was revived at the Mercury Theatre .
15 The old fulminations against political alliances will be heard , and the old predictions of financial disaster will be trotted out ; the old yarns about schemes of interested but impecunious politicians who desire to insert their capacious hands into our money chests will be ventilated ; we shall , in fact , be inundated by all the old bosh which has so long confused the issues and blocked the way to advance in the direction of cooperative representation .
16 FORTNUM & Mason , the Piccadilly store which has so far shrugged off the effects of recession , yesterday warned that it will be difficult to maintain profits in the 12 months to July .
17 It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand .
18 That 's what Mansell does — not merely racing , but striving for the supreme prize which has so far eluded him .
19 There are other problems also : one is how to overcome the environmental objections and the contracting and technical failures which have so far stunted the growth of nuclear power in the UK , and another is how to keep up the momentum of conservation ( or energy efficiency improvements ) in the absence of the price increases which have proved the prime motivation towards energy saving .
20 On March 12 Mandela , continuing a foreign tour which had so far included Zimbabwe and Ethiopia and Tanzania as well as Zambia , travelled to Sweden , whose government had shown the greatest support for the ANC outside Africa .
21 Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock .
22 I do n't think I 've ever experienced a recording which has so intensely provoked so many of my emotions .
23 This could be the year Nigel Mansell finally overcomes his great rival Ayrton Senna and clinches the world motor racing championship which has so far eluded him .
24 We will safeguard the abatement negotiated by Mrs Thatcher which has so far brought some £12,000 million in budget rebates to Britain .
25 This archive will make a significant contribution to a number of debates in social science which have so far lacked appropriate data .
26 This deficit model which has so patently missed the needs of children with special educational needs is being supplanted , at an increasing pace , through a whole-school approach .
27 However it is the quantitative measures which have so far dominated research in this field , and which will provide the basis for this review .
28 John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’
29 During the day he can often be seen looking like an overgrown pit pony in a thin , rather dirty New Zealand rug which has so far survived all his attempts at removal .
30 She was thankful for that , because it gave her time to think carefully about the extraordinary situation which had so unexpectedly arisen .
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