Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] so [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 2 | I 've just a hundred now you 're winning so far by fifty points . |
| 3 | The simple sieves we have been considering so far in this chapter are all examples of single-step selection . |
| 4 | The conclusion could hardly be avoided that the Führer , who only a short while before had been speaking so confidently of imminent victory , had been mistaken . |
| 5 | Things had been moving so slowly in recent months that some Conservative MPs , like Robert Adley , the railway buff who chairs the Tories ' backbench transport committee , were convinced that privatisation was about to be dropped altogether . |
| 6 | The assumptions we have been making so far about intensional relations and their combination and representation seem to deny us the chance of distinguishing two different structures here . |
| 7 | The population has been increasing so fast in most Latin American countries that despite out-migration , the numbers of the peasantry are still on the increase . |
| 8 | ‘ Roman and I have been working so hard on this business fair , he 's promised to take me away with him when it 's over ! ’ |
| 9 | Although many years later Braque recalled how strong an impression tribal art made on him , it is hard to see any direct reflection of this in the paintings executed at the time when Picasso was reacting so positively to tribal sculpture ; even in a painting like the Nu any influence from tribal art seems to have come at second hand , through Picasso 's Demoiselles . |
| 10 | He was doing so well for three months . |
| 11 | He warned that economic development was lagging so far behind that of the rest of the EC that the EC 's " course towards the single market , monetary union and European unification is in danger of being permanently undermined " . |
| 12 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |