Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] so [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the red tape that so often seems to characterize bureaucracies need not be a manifestation of bureaucrats ' love for due process . |
| 2 | One intended to go to Gateshead college full time for a year to do five GCSEs , but was unable to get a grant or income support because she did not qualify under the 22-hour rule and so reluctantly decided to attend part time instead . |
| 3 | I love this club and so only wish to offer encouragement . |
| 4 | Well , pardon me for belching , but what we 're talking about here is a virtually unparalleled ( in this musical medium , at least ) honesty and open-ness that so far has hampered the Kitchens ' career like a rucksack full of rocks . |
| 5 | The Scottish Consumer Council , Transport 2000 , Bus Watch and so on have urged that consumer interest should be statutorily enforceable by the Bill , but the Minister has rejected such recommendations . |
| 6 | And they realized that all their efforts in controlling quality by inspection and so on had failed . |
| 7 | He had searched for this assassin by silent threat and bribery but so far had discovered nothing . |
| 8 | For 20 minutes the air will gradually charge , as Sidney 's fantastical imaginary seduction acts itself out through the medium of Byrd 's music , so neutral on the surface but so supremely calculated to carry such a sensual text . |
| 9 | Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality . |
| 10 | Convocation supports the Library through its continuing Library Appeal Fund and so far has raised £3000 . |
| 11 | If this is so , the legal model of the company as so far described needs to be rejected in favour of one which does not explain the rules of company law exclusively in terms of the rights of owners , but which instead regards members and employees as joint stakeholders , each with legitimate demands that the company be run for their benefit . |
| 12 | It had been intended , purely and simply , as an insult , but it had come out with just a hint of that genuine curiosity that so unexpectedly had afflicted her just a moment before . |