Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] so [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 2 | Thus in choosing between two alternative sets of pleasure one can not necessarily decide which is preferable by an arithmetical calculation , nor could one necessarily do so even if one was omniscient . |
| 3 | Finally , a reminder about circular knitting given in figure 2 will only work so long as there is n't a punchcard in the card reader . |
| 4 | Our sense of adventure only went so far and we relied on them to make the decisions . |
| 5 | She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned . |
| 6 | It had all happened so quickly that he could still not believe it . |
| 7 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 8 | Because if not , you 'd better say so now and I 'll go away and never bother you again . |
| 9 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 10 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 11 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 12 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |
| 13 | His arms were raised above his head but not raised so far that he showed any fear either . |
| 14 | But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’ |
| 15 | Such a population , especially if the average size of a family continues to diminish , calls for more looking after , medically and physically , than an equal population of lower average age : it does not die so cheaply and it does not , medically speaking , survive so cheaply . |
| 16 | Lévi-Strauss has rendered social anthropology an invaluable service in emphasizing the significance of such contrasting motifs ; although we need not go so far as him and turn our subject into an esoteric animal , vegetable or mineral parlour-game in which every card is a joker and can assume whatever meaning the player likes . |
| 17 | True , at death our essence is finally overcome so far as its actualisation in space and time goes , but as long as we live we can go on realizing it in as full a form as circumstances allow . |
| 18 | Initially , Wendy received six-monthly inseminations , but she felt ill-at-ease : ‘ They were always done so impersonally and I was going through such an emotional , personal experience . ’ |
| 19 | But there was a living to be made in comedy which he still did so well and he got on with it . |
| 20 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |
| 21 | Fearnley was by now talking so quietly that I had to lean close to hear him . |
| 22 | you 're five eight you 're five eight , you stand , you st I do n't think same size as my mum I do n't think so somehow cos my mums five eight and my mums erm quite tall |
| 23 | I 'll , I 'll ask this other girl who I do n't know so well but I 'm sure if she 's going that way , she , you know , she 's in that area anyway . |
| 24 | erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them . |
| 25 | I mean , we have n't done so far but we , that 's what but , this is stuff we got about hundred |
| 26 | I do n't mind , I do n't mind so long as I just get out a bit on , into town and |
| 27 | You do n't sleep so much as you get older . |
| 28 | They wanted him to like this house but he did n't , and he was n't saying so just so they 'd feel better . |
| 29 | They do n't forget so easily where I come from . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't seem so long since his birthdee , do it ? ’ |