Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was running , the geyser roared so loudly that the place felt like a rocket in the middle of a take off . |
| 2 | If the trial goes so badly that the plaintiff wants to take the money out during it he must , as was decided in Gaskins v British Aluminium Co Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 524 , make an application to do so , and he must have the defendant 's consent even to make the application . |
| 3 | The current project will extend previous work by presenting the homograph primes so briefly that the subjects are not consciously aware of them . |
| 4 | The TV afternoons and the hours went so slow until he came back and turned the lights on . |
| 5 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 6 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 7 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 8 | Many of the animals swim so quickly that they do not stay in sight for long . |
| 9 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 10 | The wind came so swiftly that within half an hour we were reducing sail , taking water over the deck , and beginning to lumber into a building seaway . |
| 11 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |
| 12 | The purpose of looking at Hansard will not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear . |
| 13 | Finally , in rejecting the submission that relaxing the exclusionary rule could amount to the courts questioning proceedings in Parliament contrary to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights , Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ the purpose of looking at Hansard could not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear ’ . |
| 14 | The plan worked so well that insurers Lloyd 's paid out the £1.8 million claim . |
| 15 | certain of the elements combine so naturally and with so powerful an effect that we pursue that path of combination as a path in its own right and forget about the problem we are trying to solve . |
| 16 | There was no brand name on the yarn and the work twisted so badly that she could not wear it . |
| 17 | That has now changed Eastern arts no longer support the gallery now one obvious reason for that is the gallery started so well because of the enthusiasm from a number of professional people who came along and gave their advice and much of their time and such a body of people has not been called upon for a number of years now and once again a request to discuss this with Mr was refused . |
| 18 | ‘ The abuse happened so often that I thought it was normal . |
| 19 | Unfortunately confidence in this practice was somewhat sapped when the House of Lords decided that , if the officer of the company who certified the transfer did so fraudulently and for his own purposes when sufficient share certificates had not in fact been lodged , the company was not liable . |
| 20 | In fact , the Committee goes so far as to assert that business and industry have no distinctive educational needs , and is thereby able to collapse point 2 in its terms of reference ( " the needs of business , the professions and the public services " ) into point 1 ( " the requirements of a liberal education " ) . |
| 21 | The roof , which is stripped of tiles , provides the water-supply ; the chimney smokes so thickly that the opposite wall is barely visible ; the few remaining window-panes are stained and the majority are stuffed with rags and paper . |
| 22 | The propagandists go so far as to assume , even to assert , that it would not result in any splitting of the party vote : in other words that votes transferred from Dandy or Deadman or Doughty would go to another of these three running-mates and not elsewhere . |
| 23 | Where the husband goes so far as to cause injury , there are available a number of offences against the person with which he may be charged , but the gravamen of the husband 's conduct is the injury he has caused not the sexual intercourse he has forced . ’ |
| 24 | A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static . |
| 25 | They are advised that they are potentially highly infectious when the ulcers are present and should refrain from intercourse ( should they cent of patients who develop genital herpes go on to have recurrent attacks , and in only a small proportion of these do the attacks occur so frequently as to disrupt life appreciably . |
| 26 | From about 1780 onwards , the population grew so steadily and so rapidly that by 1950 the number of inhabitants had again increased by seven times . |
| 27 | However the question in the present case was whether the duty of confidence which the defendant no doubt owed to the plaintiff extended so far as to bar disclosure of the report to the hospital or the Home Office . |
| 28 | They were generally larger than the buildings described so far and were often more elaborate , with hypocausts , painted wall plaster or mosaic flooring . |
| 29 | In general terms , however , the present state of the law is that an individual who has reached the age of 18 is free to do with his life what he wishes , but it is the duty of the court to ensure so far as it can that children survive to attain that age . |
| 30 | It is the stuff of or the basis of all the relations specified so far or still to be specified between cause and effect , causal circumstance and effect , and nomic correlates . |