Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With her heart thudding so loudly that she felt sure he must feel it through her ribcage , she took another gulp of tea and waited , knowing he must speak , explain somehow what it was that had suddenly flared between them again . |
| 2 | Let's have a defence review so both the military and the industries are prepared for change when it comes . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is doubtful that the 1703 visitors were looking at ‘ pickle ’ since the anthropoid shell fits so tightly that no additional liquid could have been introduced . |
| 5 | None of the officers had much money to spare so practically all their clothes were hand made , including their uniforms . |
| 6 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the progress made so far in reforming the European Community 's common agricultural policy . |
| 7 | 24 Johnson Matthey responds to The Call the progress made so far in fund raising for Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund |
| 8 | But others say that this definition of rape will undermine the progress made so far in getting the courts to take rape seriously . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hitachi was one of six Japanese companies invited to invest in Kaleida ( CI No 1,931 ) , and of the other five , only Toshiba Corp has so far stuck its head above the parapet with an agreement with Apple to license Kaleida technology and use it in jointly developed products ; others invited to join were Matsushita Electric Industrial Co , Sharp Corp , Sony Corp and NEC Corp . |
| 11 | British Rail has so far totally failed to do so . |
| 12 | For these reasons I conclude that as a matter of interpretation the powers of the Director do not cease , as regards the questioning of the person under investigation , when he is charged ; that the principle of common sense , expressed in the maxim generalia specialibus non derogant , entails that the general provisions of the Code yield to the particular provisions of the Act of 1987 in cases to which that Act applies ; and that neither history nor logic demands that any qualification of what Parliament has so clearly enacted ought to be implied . |
| 13 | The adrenalin hurt : her shallow , panicked respiration frizzed in her brain and her heart beat so fast she felt sure it would burst . |
| 14 | But she was so tired and her heart beat so quickly . |
| 15 | Ludwig is also the Emperor 's bodyguard and his mere presence has so far proven enough to discourage any attempts on the Emperor 's life . |
| 16 | The current project will extend previous work by presenting the homograph primes so briefly that the subjects are not consciously aware of them . |
| 17 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 18 | But ahortly after the heavens opened and the river level rose so high the work had to be abandoned . |
| 19 | Why has British industry failed so comprehensively in these ways ? |
| 20 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 21 | So why has the performance of manufacturing industry fallen so dangerously low ? |
| 22 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 23 | All the effort and all the investment made so far has effectively gone to waste . |
| 24 | But it was also a religious movement : the invasion by Christian knighthood of the infidel world ; it aroused the savagery for which war in the name of religion has so often been the excuse . |
| 25 | The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis . |
| 26 | The Advanced Courses Development Programme has so far involved two phases of pilot courses , each phase having represented a stage in the progression from the current Advanced Courses system to a system based on the principles in the Policy Paper . |
| 27 | They can calculate all too clearly that the average value of sterling has fallen 17.5 per cent , ( and over 25 per cent against the dollar ) since September , and the price of fuel and raw materials for industry has so far risen by just over 10 per cent , while retail prices have actually fallen . |
| 28 | But a bungled , unlawful business deal has so far cost them £5.3m and led to the sacking of all the BRDC 's 12 directors . |
| 29 | An appeal fund set up after the tragedy has so far raised £149,664 in memory of James . |
| 30 | Our starting point for analysing structure happens to have been with an exercise , the form of drama popularised by Brian Way , and yet little attempt has so far been made by him or by anyone else to show how these apparently slight adjustments within the structure of the exercise can seriously affect the outcome . |