Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [vb -s] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unions sources said last night that they think the move could have a knock-on effect at other firms , and could be seized on by unions at Ford — where the company has so far resisted demands to reduce the 39-hour working week , and whose workers at Southampton walked out yesterday in protest at the company 's pay offer . |
| 2 | Where the husband goes so far as to cause injury , there are available a number of offences against the person with which he may be charged , but the gravamen of the husband 's conduct is the injury he has caused not the sexual intercourse he has forced . ’ |
| 3 | The private rented sector as you should be well aware , is in fact declining quite rapidly in this country and no measure that the government has so far taken has managed to rev reverse that trend . |
| 4 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 5 | Maybe it 's because their queues are so much more miserable that the waiting seems so long |
| 6 | It is perhaps not so surprising that the penis becomes so wilfully difficult in later life when you consider the punishment that is doles out to it in adolescence . |
| 7 | ‘ The fact that the regime has so quickly and so completely imploded in East Germany could risk a reunification of Germany almost by default before long , ’ one diplomat said . |
| 8 | Although the company has so far finished only four chips , all seven should be ready for the prototypes that the company will exhibit at the Berlin Radio Show in August . |
| 9 | If the trial goes so badly that the plaintiff wants to take the money out during it he must , as was decided in Gaskins v British Aluminium Co Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 524 , make an application to do so , and he must have the defendant 's consent even to make the application . |
| 10 | Nevertheless there has been little interest in exploring for Zechstein gas in the North Sea and the test results so far encountered have been very discouraging . |
| 11 | In Hong Kong the No. 3 warning is hoisted : a little coloured blip appears at the bottom left of the colony 's television screens , a constant reminder that a typhoon alert may soon be declared and the emergency drills so well practised in the territory brought into force . |
| 12 | A point deep inside the joint is skilfully selected and the pain grows so fast I have to tear my arm from her hands . |
| 13 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 14 | Shares rose sharply at the beginning of the year in anticipation of an economic rebound , but the recovery has so far been very sluggish . |
| 15 | Spokeswoman Wanda Anderson said : ‘ There is a danger that because the hospice runs so efficiently people may forget how heavily it relies on public donations and fund-raising . |
| 16 | An appeal fund set up after the tragedy has so far raised £149,664 in memory of James . |
| 17 | This is more than a million million million times as long as the universe has so far existed . |