Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 2 | Whilst to begin with inevitable , Hodge and his colleagues need not have relied so heavily or for so long on Japanese personnel . |
| 3 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 4 | America yielded first place despite its exports rising 8.5% in volume terms , compared with a rise of only 1.5% for Germany ; and it would still have done so even if unification , which added $22.5 billion to the exports of the former Federal Republic , had never happened . |
| 5 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 6 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 7 | ‘ Odd thing , ’ Flavia said , ‘ I should n't have thought so either and now I 'm convinced she does . |
| 8 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |