Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Those who fled during the Cultural Revolution often did so alone , others carrying two children on their backs across the Himalayan mountains to join the 100,000 strong refugee communities in India , where today a committed group have devoted their lives to working for the Tibetan cause .
2 Japanese money alone has so far created 4 1/2 thousand new jobs .
3 Above all , I do not believe the people of Britain want to see our constitutional monarchy , the ‘ eternal jewel ’ with which our political liberties are bound up , brought into danger or contention by the deceptive device once adopted so ill-advisedly so many years ago for a purpose that is past .
4 The duty to a lawful visitor only extends so long as , and so far as the lawful visitor is making what can reasonably be contemplated as an ordinary and reasonable use of the premises by the lawful visitor for the purposes for which he has been invited .
5 The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time .
6 ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ )
7 However , support workers who worked with more than one client generally did so sequentially : no one was helping more than two clients ( unless they were giving temporary relief ) at any one time .
8 While survey or statistical research is often geared towards testing some specific hypothesis or , at least , examining the relationship between clearly defined conceptual categories , ethnographic research rarely proceeds so smoothly ( cf Rose , 1982 ) .
9 ‘ In my own time we 've lost four cham always do so well before losing our way in the second half .
10 This bid for greater accessibility only extends so far to mainstream and international subjects — many of the most interesting studies on medieval art are by German authors , and these are published in German only .
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