Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Support can be coerced for only so long , after which an acceptable degree of legitimacy must be developed in some form . |
| 2 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 3 | The late-night satirical shows such as Not So Much a Programme , More a Way of Life and That Was the Week That Was ( TW3 ) were among the first to cause the NVALA concern . |
| 4 | The essence of what Mr Hussain said was that following the marriage he would remain in England on a settled basis as a married man for just so long as his wife dictated . |
| 5 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 6 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 7 | Breeze and Gay went to meet her at Clyst St George station , and hardly recognized the ultra-smart figure which languidly emerged from the train , as the boon companion of not so long ago . |
| 8 | By appearing in only the Sunday episode of Not So Much a Programme , Crawford had been able to continue with other work , which included a run of The Striplings on stage at the New Arts Theatre Club , in London . |
| 9 | ‘ Every poor person in England used to wash that way until not so very long ago . |
| 10 | Here , you are at the very heart of this beautiful city , staying in not so much a conventional hotel , as a comfortable home from home where your welcoming hosts are Signor and Signora Farnetani . |
| 11 | That train must have been in ever so early . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do you know why Merymose was called away from here so urgently ? ’ he asked , as a body servant brought honey cakes and wine . |
| 13 | What 's that you 've put in there so far ? |
| 14 | She had no idea she 'd been in there so long . |
| 15 | no air in there so so what 's happened here ? |
| 16 | In fact the tray of acid will go in there so any splashing around I might do , any upward splashing is not likely to reach . |
| 17 | During the last war intelligence experts came to rely upon Ultra so heavily that if Ultra intercepts told them nothing they automatically assumed the Germans were doing nothing . |
| 18 | ‘ One interesting point concerns the two jack sockets on the face and edge of the body ; these were wired in parallel so either could be used . |
| 19 | Having a baby usually means not being able to have a job as well so most young mothers have to make do with the various state benefits they are entitled to . |
| 20 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
| 21 | Now if we get back to what we were talking about due to today so then you do a bit more and then it 's back to the sort of really . |
| 22 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 23 | But with you , there was nothing to hide — at least so far . |
| 24 | Because Burma is not a rich country the potential for racketeering is limited , and shrugged off , For those Burmese who want one foot in the material world , at least so far as the occasional bottle of Scotch is concerned , the black market exists . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State has in mind using the Records of Achievement as the repository of pupil achievements in the tests and assessments at age 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 — at least so far as the sole mandatory requirements are concerned . |
| 26 | He replied that on the facts as stated it did not appear , at least so far as the testator 's words were concerned , that it was entrusted to Pamphilus that he should make over a hundred . |
| 27 | At least so far as chess is concerned , working on the level of ideas , instead of specific calculations , seems to let a tremendous amount of imprecision into one 's thinking . |
| 28 | It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went . |
| 29 | It is in Darién , however — at least so far as Panama 's administrators are concerned . |
| 30 | Speaking at a conference on the ‘ Future of the Irish Country House ’ ( 26 February ) , the Prime Minister of Ireland , Albert Reynolds made a statement of profound importance about how Ireland has come to terms with its Anglo-Irish past , at least so far as its architecture is concerned . |