Example sentences of "so [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We find that the pioneering work , the successful exporters , are really a handful of companies , maybe 100 or so right across the spectrum of technology .
2 So right from the beginning of the poem a sombre mood is present in the poem .
3 This dilemma was starkly perceived in June 1950 and answered in a way directly contrary to that anticipated so widely in the spring of 1948 .
4 It would not have been possible to tackle so many issues so successfully without the dedication of hundreds of volunteers working at both a local and national level .
5 NOBODY is sure of the distance to Betelgeuse , the red giant star that shines so brilliantly in the constellation of Orion .
6 Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies .
7 So much for the bird of ill-omen , she thought drowsily .
8 So much for the Secretary of State 's second argument .
9 So much for the way in which our furry fauna have captivated so many kite flyers ; now to the practical aspects of how to take the skydiver up to a safe release height .
10 So much for the handwringing about the decline of the political process that goes on in Washington .
11 Since herbs do so much for the flavour of food and its digestion , have such profound use in medicine , both for humans and animals , and have so much utilitarian value domestically in the home , and in the garden , it seems most unlikely that they will ever fall into such disuse again .
12 So much for the County of London .
13 So much for the death of St Pierre .
14 So much for the need of a Prime Minister to obtain the Sovereign 's ‘ permission ’ for a dissolution of Parliament .
15 So much for the matter of tracing .
16 Sums over histories also played an important psychological role in the development of physics since they led Feynman to propose his diagrammatic ideas about which I spoke so warmly at the start of this chapter .
17 I I I have to say that I I I I 'm not enthusiastic about using this which is so obviously at a report in support of the particular locations , to look objectively at the criteria .
18 She was sick with wretchedness , convinced she had only herself to blame — and of course the devastating effect Paula had on men — but still puzzled that it could have ended so suddenly without a word of explanation on his part .
19 We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces .
20 Neither Andy Forshaw nor Martin Langston stood out in the HDM event , so Clark , for so long on the fringe of national selection , could get his chance for England in the Buttermen Indoor tournament at Crystal Palace on December 29-30 .
21 The only real surprise about Danny Rampling 's fine debut single ‘ I Hate Hate ’ is that it 's taken so long for a DJ of his reputation to commit himself to vinyl .
22 It is extraordinary that it took so long for the importance of this to be realised in Britain .
23 How far would Rock Hudson have got if his true proclivities , hidden so long by a succession of girlfriends provided by the studios , had been known ?
24 What is remarkable is that Republican resistance continued for so long after the loss of the north in mid-1937 — a tribute to improved military organization and human courage .
25 The drift to a cappella solutions might also be interpreted as a reaction to the individualism and subjectivism of the 1960s , both of which have lingered so long in the performance of medieval and ( some ) Renaissance music .
26 Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline .
27 While setting up the calm surface of village life in a realistic manner , the film does so only as a contrast to the savagery that ensues : a priest is shot while making a stand against ‘ the enemies and oppressors of mankind ’ , the Post Office lady kills a German with an axe and is promptly bayonetted herself , and the vicar 's daughter disposes of the Quisling squire , to whom she had been amorously linked .
28 On behalf of the Crown it was contended that the law did not recognise any such general principle as was involved in the primary submission for Woolwich , that the facts of the case did not meet the established principles governing the restitution of sums paid under duress , and that the revenue were never under any obligation to make any repayment and did so only as a matter of grace .
29 To this end he eventually succeeded in rejecting ministers proposed by Abe and Watanabe , but did so only with the support of Takeshita and Ozawa .
30 The monarch was expected to govern , but to do so only with the consent of Parliament .
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