Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | None was admitted so long as Coleman was alive . |
2 | In fact time went so quickly that Shelley was surprised when the crowded room fell silent , and the sound of the church clock in the square drifted through the little café . |
3 | ‘ He was a soldier , you know , ’ she had said , podding peas so rapidly that Sally-Anne was full of awe for such expertise , pea-podding being difficult , she had discovered . |
4 | His condition deteriorated so rapidly that Brian was unable to reach his father 's bedside in New York before he died . |
5 | She walked from the herb garden so rapidly that Meryl was unable to utter another word . |
6 | Only in small things so far but Dexter was sure , thinking back to the taut image of the man sitting on his sofa the previous night , that he was lying about bigger things as well . |
7 | The churchyard had emptied , the wedding-carriages had rolled away , taking their fragile gaiety with them to another world so far as Cara was concerned . |
8 | For extra-Community trade , so far as Britain is concerned , the DNH has worked out how the two systems are to be meshed together , as the UK categories and monetary limits , although similar to those of the EC , are not identical . |
9 | My objections were originally on the grounds of freedom , rather than efficiency , although in the event , so far as Britain was concerned , socialism led more to stagnation than to tyranny . |
10 | Later he moved over and took his seat in Parliament , where he was able to exploit even grander notions , that public transport be nationalized and another Bill was placed before Parliament , with this in mind , at least in so far as London was concerned . |
11 | By December 1940 the news from the African front was very bad so far as Italy was concerned . |
12 | However , the most striking feature of the reforms resulting from the Maud Report , so far as England was concerned , was the institution of ‘ metropolitan counties ’ in the most heavily urbanised areas of that country . |
13 | He seems to have recognized — at least he did not dissent from the view — that so far as England was concerned , the choice lay with the king . |
14 | Beyond the immediate circumstances of this case , Anselm rejected , so far as England was concerned , the recent papal practice of entrusting to specially appointed legates large areas within which they had authority over all archbishops and bishops . |
15 | We happen to lie in the line of sight so far as Algol is concerned ( or nearly so ) ; if we were observing from a different vantage point there would be no eclipses , and Algol would shine steadily . |
16 | So far as Rome was concerned , they were , of course , rebellious outlaws , to be hounded , harried and ruthlessly extirpated . |
17 | In so far as Japan was concerned , it was apparent that all profits made from their ‘ British ’ made products went back to Japan to boost their economy and to further their influence into the European markets . |
18 | It sounded as if he needed another pair of hands for the trip ahead — which was another reprieve so far as Robbie was concerned . |
19 | From the lack of overlap between the patrons of the two ventures , it seems likely that the progressive bourgeoisie of ESPEW were not disposed to back the printing initiative supported by a more conservative section of the upper class , nor apparently was the venture connected to the NAPSS , which , as the Scottish Typographical Circular pointed out , " so far as Scotland is concerned , declined to have anything to do with the attempt to introduce women into the printing business " . |
20 | So far as Dicey was concerned Parliamentary sovereignty was ‘ a legal fact ’ and his purpose was to demonstrate that ‘ Parliament does constitute such a supreme legislative authority or sovereign power as , according to Austin and other jurists , must exist in every civilised state . ’ |
21 | It would not be the end of France 's participation in the alliance — although privately de Gaulle toyed with that step — but the end , so far as France was concerned , of participation in the structures and institutions of NATO . |
22 | She had no living relatives and , so far as Celia was aware , none of her friendships had survived her arrest . |
23 | So far as Andrew was able to think beyond himself , Nicandra 's beauty overpowered him . |
24 | And that arrogant devil Christie Goldsborough who 'd caused the trouble , so far as Frizingley was concerned at any rate , by egging Ben on to cut the wages at Braithwaite 's mill . |
25 | Whatever it might have been , it was short-lived so far as James was concerned . |
26 | So far as Balfour was concerned , Zionism was ‘ of far profounder import than the desire and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land [ of Palestine ] ’ . |
27 | This situation may best be illustrated , so far as Anselm is concerned , by examining his interventions on the subject of monastic vows . |
28 | So far as Hitler was concerned , and he was certainly the person who started the war , his objectives were , was to achieve a form of economic autarchy which involved the conquest of , of , of er territory in Europe er but which would not push his adversaries to the point of fighting a war of national existence . |
29 | Military service to France was actually performed by Edward in 1283 , in so far as Edward 's seneschal of Ponthieu arrived at Bordeaux with a contingent of men-at-arms , ready to serve in Aragon , but they soon returned home . |
30 | So far as Canterbury was concerned , the right of primacy over the whole of the British Isles was the greatest of all such gifts . |