Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building materials are currently running a small surplus , but imports far outstripped exports in the housing boom of the late 1980s and can be expected to do so again when the construction industry picks up . |
| 2 | Finally , if misconstruction is to be avoided , it may be useful for legislation to explain how gradation is intended to operate so far as the charging and prosecution of offences is concerned . |
| 3 | I hope it will be agreed that those who think that the tax law is justified do so partly because they believe that there is in the circumstances imagined a reason voluntarily to contribute a sum which is equivalent to a just tax . |
| 4 | They are required to ensure so far as is reasonably practicable that any plant ( machinery , equipment or appliance ) is so designed and constructed as to be safe and without risk to health . |
| 5 | Not until 1859 , when he was forty-eight years old , did he publish it and even then he was driven to do so only because another younger naturalist , Alfred Wallace , working in Southeast Asia , had formulated the same idea . |