Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pushing hard back against the mountain , he spun backwards out from the rock , curling over in the air so slowly that he could watch , in slow motion , first the passing overhead of the dark clouds , then the mountains , the far side of the valley , the meadow , the cabin , and , at last , the lake red with mud . |
| 2 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 3 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 4 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 5 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 6 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 7 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 8 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 9 | So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life . |
| 10 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 11 | Nobody destroys me , and nobody was going to destroy Johnnie so long as I could sit by his bed — some of his family tried to stop me — and will my life force into him . ’ |
| 12 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 13 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |
| 14 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 15 | Winter sweet , viburnum , and witch hazel were all in flower ; the air was so still that they could hear the distant gurgle of the river from down in the valley . |
| 16 | Swaddled in a large sweater , Travis sat with his arms about his legs , so still that he could have been a statue . |
| 17 | His head had flopped to one side and the thin neck , stretched so still that she could see the pulse beat , looked too fragile to bear the weight of his head . |
| 18 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 19 | Thus when determining what contracts fall within or outside the ambit of s 3 , issues of reasonableness , equality of bargaining power and the possibility of negotiation are in fact not very relevant , except in so far as they could move a judge to finding that terms were standard or not in borderline cases . |
| 20 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 21 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 22 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 23 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 24 | The Hepburns proved hardly more reliable , but did keep a hold on the castle and — so far as anyone could keep a hold on such a region — the lordship of Liddesdale . |
| 25 | The others , in so far as she could recover her feelings of the time , seemed to have involved love — inflammation of the senses , certainly . |
| 26 | So far as she could make out , Ven Gajdusek was more interested in enjoying his walk than he was in answering any of her questions . |
| 27 | They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all . |
| 28 | No one , so far as she could tell , hugged the doorways , folded into the shadows . |
| 29 | But only the occasional innocent — so far as she could tell — twang of the springs of the hideous black and red sofa punctuated the interview . |
| 30 | Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him . |