Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 2 | CAP has so far failed to tackle the disadvantages or to help to secure the benefits of the few comparative advantages of the DRAs . |
| 3 | She hesitated , sadly , desperately anxious to accept , absurdly delighted that he had asked her , that he had so coolly bothered to cross the room to ask her , and yet at the same time horrified by the thought of displaying herself , by the thought of dragging her hideous dress from its hole-in-the-corner obscurity , by the thought of dancing at all , for she did not know how to dance . |
| 4 | Fortunately many of our hill railways and tramways have so far managed to escape the nightmare of the gricer archaeologists — landscaping and land reclamation — because their earthworks , light though they may be , are hard work even for modern ploughs . |
| 5 | Courts in Banbury , Woodstock and Aylesbury have so far refused to allow the so-called friends to give advice . |
| 6 | Neighbourhood Watch vigilantes have so far failed to apprehend the culprit . |
| 7 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 8 | Investigations have so far failed to identify the cause . |
| 9 | Only Germany and Denmark have so far agreed to adopt the 20 per cent cut as a target . |