Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It blew open those divisions , but did not stop the present Prime Minister saying , when he spoke as Chancellor in that debate : ’ I believe that they will vote for the consistency , courage and conviction with which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has led this country so successfully for so long . ’ |
| 2 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 3 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 4 | And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ? |
| 5 | This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it . |
| 6 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 7 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |
| 9 | And if I 'm a wicked , evil news reporter , I 'm going to leave out all the nice , positive things that you said , because you went on for so long I 'm interviewing you at half past twelve for the one o'clock news . |
| 10 | This one has gone on for so much longer — two years so far with no sign of it coming to an end . ’ |
| 11 | The House of Lords held that parental rights are recognised in law only for so long as they are needed for the protection of the child . |
| 12 | But only for so long . |
| 13 | They could keep up between four and five miles in each hour only for so long , for even strong and accustomed muscles tired . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) The justices were under a duty to make any secure accommodation order only for so long as was necessary . |
| 15 | Perhaps we should not be surprised that Parliament is closing down for so long . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As for public protection , this depends on executive decisions with regard to release ; it fails to take into account whether it is necessary for public protection to keep ‘ lifers ’ in for so long . |
| 18 | To fill the vacant position , Sir Henry , still nursing ambitions for the club he had guided and invested in for so long , wanted no one else but the outstandingly successful manager of Huddersfield Town . |
| 19 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 20 | It was the same kind as he had once been kept in for so long . |
| 21 | But what is more remarkable is that so many farmers were sentimental ( and some impecunious ) enough to keep their hedgerows in for so long . |
| 22 | ‘ You have n't been pressured into any further interrogation , not only because of the condition you were in for so long , ’ Munro said , ‘ but because we know everything there is to know about Operation Eagle . ’ |
| 23 | We 've been back together for so long I 'd almost forgotten about it . |
| 24 | Gabriel held me together for so long . |
| 25 | We 'd never been alone together for so long before . |
| 26 | Letting Baptiste in where the two of them had reigned together for so long . |
| 27 | But the last thing she had expected was that John would take advantage of it , especially after so long an absence from her , and even more especially after the crisis they had endured and survived together these months past . |
| 28 | In other ways , however , there is a continuity in these policies , especially in so far as inner-city and urban initiatives specifically target defined spatial areas and direct resources deliberately towards them through special schemes . |
| 29 | Things happened in this period that profoundly influenced sociological thinking in particular , and especially in so far as it related to crime and criminals ; they led to a comprehensive rejection of the most cherished principles of positivist criminology . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the very pursuit of ‘ respectability ’ , especially in so far as it involved claims to status recognition and participation in local institutions , was a source of social tension , a focal point in the growth of class identity . |