Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 For Henry Thomas had left Tredegar for railway employment in Swindon and one of his sons , the Uncle Harry who features in the Swindon holidays described so lovingly in The Childhood of Edward Thomas , was a fitter at the Swindon GWR works until he set sail for South Africa in 1891 .
2 One reason , for example , why the Falklands issue figured so infrequently on the agenda of the Cabinet 's Oversea and Defence Committee before the Argentine invasion of April 1982 is that Lord Carrington , then Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , disliked bringing Foreign Office business before committee meetings of his colleagues .
3 Translucent shapes undulated through the jungle , glimmering in the sunlight : the only life the Lucifer System had so far offered up for study .
4 The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town .
5 The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned .
6 Some of Fleet Street 's finest wind-up merchants have been put on the case , but the search for the Kinnock temper has so far been fruitless .
7 Unlike the Central Veracruz raised fields , however , most of the Maya ones discovered so far , Siemens reports , are irregularly shaped and none seems noticeably oriented in any special way .
8 Reports in Washington suggested that the Gulf states had so far refused to allocate any money to Jordan because of its apparent support for Iraq [ see also p. 38024 ] .
9 Why , then , was the Banstead strategy conceived so early ?
10 And the Cid Ruydiez did so well , and made such mortality among the Moors , that the blood ran from his wrist to his elbow ! great pleasure had he in his horse Bavieca that day , to find himself so well mounted .
11 IT WAS supposedly a new instalment for a new golf season of the United States v Europe rivalry that the Ryder Cup brought so sharply into focus .
12 ‘ Hardly ever has a Goebbels article stood so much in the public eye as this one , ’ added the report , ‘ but his articles have probably never been so criticized .
13 ‘ I have never seen an England bowler swing so much a ball that is 60 overs old .
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