Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to see how the courts can scrupulously review the reasonableness of police discretion where the case comes up so long after the event when the wording in the Act is so very wide in the first place . |
| 2 | Yin and yang ; animus and anima ; the pairing turns up so often , not surprisingly it is sometimes taken for a universal principle of human thought and categorisation . |
| 3 | But though Athens ' diplomatic interest in the west goes back so early , it seems that Syracuse 's aims of conquest long preceded and are independent of any serious commitment of men or money by Athens . |
| 4 | But the major problem with the curriculum has not so much been lack of vision or aims , as a failure to translate aims in a clear and logical way into a curriculum to achieve them . |
| 5 | However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence . |
| 6 | It is unfortunate that the talk comes quite so soon after Christmas , but I hope all members living locally will make every effort to come and I know that they will be glad they did . |
| 7 | Water resistance : little resistance to persistent rain but the fabric dries out so quickly after shows that it 's often not worth the bother of getting out your overtrousers . |
| 8 | Waiting in a traffic jam the engine turns over so silently Dominique has to rev to make sure the car has n't stalled . |
| 9 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 10 | The figure recedes , the circle dims , the piano plays softly so far away … |
| 11 | one 's hurting the other and the other hurts back so instead of maybe looking at one another , they just do n't work hard ! |
| 12 | If interpreted in this light , the argument becomes not so much an onslaught on the idea of identity as an attack on the idea of empirical things as basic particulars . |
| 13 | The Commission has not so far brought the matter to the European Court of Justice . |
| 14 | The government has not so far given ground on Mozambique , and has insisted that it is committed to keeping its troops in Cambodia . |
| 15 | The continued advertising and promotion of tobacco should be strenuously resisted , yet the government has not so far seemed inclined to upset the tobacco lobby . |
| 16 | To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic . |