Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 But Allied and neutral losses continued to mount so steeply that the Germans supposed a further five months would see Great Britain subdued .
2 But there are times when the analogies get stretched so far that the brain starts to lose contact with the original image .
3 FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM .
4 But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers .
5 She said : ‘ Things have progressed so quickly since the initial idea last year that we are now seeking bookings a good bit earlier than expected . ’
6 THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend .
7 The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support .
8 the numbers , unc not in general constant under transformation ; but if the iterations have proceeded so far that I is in the quasi-triangular form , the trace and determinant of ( 3 ) are invariant , so that the complex roots are fixed .
9 SALARIES for university law teachers have slipped so badly and professional salaries risen so dramatically that experienced staff are being lost at an alarming rate , the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools reported this week .
10 The next few seconds seemed to move so fast that none of the witnesses to it , eagles or people , could ever quite remember the sequence of events .
11 In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details .
12 Around eighty galleries have confirmed so far that they will be attending more than this time last year and the organisers are presenting a positive front in the light of the art market recession .
13 Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw .
14 ‘ Our preparations have gone so well that none of us can wait to get there and begin in earnest .
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