Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The activities described so far have been concerned with periodically recurring factors relating to corporate planning and monitoring of results as part of functional management . |
| 2 | Ranged against the far more powerful pro-Israel lobby , the groups have so far had little impact on policy . |
| 3 | The technologies considered so far have been those relating to large-scale carpentry and items worn or carried , especially brooches and weaponry . |
| 4 | The authorities have so far managed to prevent a chain reaction . |
| 5 | All the characteristics listed so far tell of the leader 's relationship with God ( 'looking up' ) . |
| 6 | But the steps taken so far have been tentative ones , forced by bitter economic realities . |
| 7 | All of the solutions considered so far have involved only Legendre functions of even order . |
| 8 | It has indeed made a saving of some £3 billion , but the costs of the rebates paid so far has been estimated at around three times that much . |
| 9 | We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity . |
| 10 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |
| 11 | The points made , the order of delivery and even some of the phrases used so closely resemble Scott 's first letter to Palmerston that it seems likely that Elcho had been briefed by Scott . |
| 12 | The ideas developed so far provide a very incomplete story when the flow is adjacent to a solid boundary . |
| 13 | Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above . |
| 14 | All the experiments discussed so far have made use of a two-stage procedure — an initial phase of discrimination training intended to render the cues distinctive , followed by a test in which the nature of the task is changed but which still requires discrimination between these same cues . |
| 15 | Most of the studies reviewed so far focus on people 's attitudes to domestic energy use and equipment , an aspect of their immediate daily life . |
| 16 | The studies discussed so far have dealt with the effects of insulin deficiency in the experimental diabetic rat on prostacyclin production and the effects of insulin treatment . |
| 17 | Most of the studies discussed so far have used laboratory tasks , often ones in which the source of arousal is artificial and quite separate from the material to be remembered . |
| 18 | Moreover , as mentioned earlier , the figures presented so far do not include a range of fringe benefits usually the privilege of non-manual employees which have a real income value : among these are luncheon vouchers , company cars , credit facilities ( cheap company loans ) , and so on . |
| 19 | Proponents of this approach tend to feel that the changes made so far do not go far enough , however , and that excessive consideration for the biological parent-child relationship is still being allowed to put the child 's future at risk . |
| 20 | Accordingly when Bilbo and Frodo say they will pursue it , eagerly or wearily , till it is intersected by other roads , lives , wishes , and will then continue into the unknown , if they can , they are expressing a mixture of doubt and determination — exactly the qualities Gandalf so often recommends . |
| 21 | Such adaptations grab our attention because the characters seem so well designed for the job they perform . |
| 22 | The theories considered so far deal for the most part with major changes in the form of society , but it is evident that there are more continuous , relatively small-scale changes which affect political life . |
| 23 | Apart from the orthodox account , all the theories examined so far have something in common . |
| 24 | In this sense , all the themes discussed so far contain ‘ women 's issues ’ and have to be treated from women 's perspectives to arrive at true and complete reality . |
| 25 | The authors pinpoint the ailment of ‘ easy answers and one-off solutions ’ to which the selectors have so often resorted . |
| 26 | All the critics mentioned so far kept their criticism within certain limits . |
| 27 | The examples given so far relate to developments within a single national social order . |
| 28 | Most of the examples discussed so far imply that transfers of money are gifts rather than loans , although the distinction between these two is not always clear . |
| 29 | The examples discussed so far seem to be quite clear cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 30 | The results obtained so far suggest that shape-specific long-chain water polymers could be the something which produces the physiological and pharmacological effects which homoeopathic potencies exert on living systems . |