Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] so [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 2 | Not only do the results have no bearing on rankings — and therefore do not matter — but they are forgotten so far as historical records are concerned almost before the players have walked off the court . |
| 3 | They are expected so far as practicable to make decisions on benefit entitlement within 14 days , but this time limit is frequently exceeded . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the relatively few persons for whom special knowledge and training are reserved are freed so far as possible from the obligations of simple labour ’ ( Braverman , 1974 , pp. 82–3 ) . |
| 5 | It can not be argued so categorically that this was the sole source of the style in the twelfth century or that it would not soon have developed in a similar manner elsewhere if the Île de France had not then produced it . |
| 6 | ( d ) Party not to take advantage of his own wrong A lease will be construed so far as possible so as not to permit a party to it to take advantage of his own wrong . |
| 7 | All Yugoslav nationals in Eighth Army area were to be returned so long as this did not involve the " use of force " . |
| 8 | TNO vice-president Arthur Rörsch says that the government is pleased that the centre is valued so highly but that , ‘ against a background of budget cuts , with health budgets particularly under fire , it is not really easy to be optimistic ’ . |
| 9 | It has been suggested so far that many academic lawyers and policemen share the view that where a woman has sexual intercourse with a man , she should be regarded in law as having consented to it save in exceptional circumstances as where violence or the threat of it is used . |
| 10 | This was written so quickly that several errors occurred , one being the omission of the name of the person who had done much of the work since September : Marvin Hawkins , the graduate student . |
| 11 | It was opened so forcefully that one of the straps broke . |