Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thick forests growing on the flanks of the volcano were completely levelled , in some cases so completely that it was hard to tell that there once had been trees growing there . |
| 2 | Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all . |
| 3 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 4 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 5 | All except Lord Diplock ( and in this he positively disagreed ) held that the GLC had to have regard , when making a grant , to the LTE 's obligation to run its operations so far as practicable , on a break-even basis ; so the GLC could make grants to the LTE only to make good unavoidable losses and not to further a particular social policy . |
| 6 | Some dealers find it hilarious when clients take their investments so seriously that they investigate the OTC companies personally . |
| 7 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 8 | Candidates are awarded credit for individual areas of study as these are completed , and no time limit applies to the length of time it may take to complete either the professional certificate or diploma programmes so long as these programmes are still offered by HCIMA . |
| 9 | We are , as ever , delighted with the responses we 've had from artists so far and we are currently working with a superb international line-up which includes Alexei Sayle , Spinal Tap ( reforming specially for the show ) , Spitting Image , Julian Clary , Dave Stewart ( performing a specially composed number ) , Jason Donovan ( duetting with Kim Wilde ) , Tom Jones , Roger Daltrey ( with The Chieftains ) , Lisa Stansfield , EMF , Seal , Beverley Craven , Midge Ure , Mica Paris , and , as they say , many many , many more . |
| 10 | The statutory scheme for bankruptcy is to be found in the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Insolvency Rules 1986 and has the following main objectives : ( 1 ) to enable the bankrupt 's affairs and dealings to be investigated under the control of the court ; ( 2 ) to provide the statutory machinery for the collection and rateable distribution of the bankrupt 's available assets ( or those assets which ought to form part of his estate ) with a view to satisfying his debts so far as may be practicable ; ( 3 ) to rehabilitate the bankrupt through the process of discharge . |
| 11 | She had never met anyone who expressed her opinions so convincingly and who was so unfailingly wrong about everything as Evelyn . |
| 12 | In most subsequent cases , it became clear that considerations of comity would not prevail against the usual procedures of the Federal Rules so long as deponents or documents were to be produced within the United States , from whatever source . |
| 13 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 14 | By the third day they were quarrelling openly and at times so fiercely that the knights standing around went for their swords . |
| 15 | The important words so far as this appeal is concerned are the words ‘ any enactment or rule of law … restricting the right of any other person to recover possession of the premises . ’ |
| 16 | The good readers , in contrast , seem to recognise words so quickly that the beneficial ( or harmful ) effects of context do not have time to take effect . |
| 17 | The passing of the Victorian age , significant in so many spheres , brought no great change in this area ; there is no magic in the divide between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries so far as the scope of judicial review is concerned . |
| 18 | In a corner of the Salon Imperial of the Hotel Intercontinental , Paris , Harriet Varna braced her back against a statuesque pillar and looked steadily into the viewfinder of her camera , concentrating on her subjects so fiercely that she was almost oblivious to the electric atmosphere that surrounded her , bouncing off the Viennese décor and the sumptuous rococo ceiling along with the heat and the light as the models of the House of Saint Laurent moved gracefully along the hundred yards of catwalk to display the new season 's couture collection . |
| 19 | Welcome back:A new clinic … the first of it 's kind in Britain … is cutting hospital waiting lists so fast that it 's been described as a runaway success . |
| 20 | You can avoid any foods you do not like and replace them with others from these lists so long as you do not exceed your daily calorie allowance . |
| 21 | According to the Smallholdings and Allotments Act of 1908 , a smallholding was defined as ‘ an agricultural holding more than one acre and not more than 50 acres in extent , though the area may be extended beyond 50 acres so long as its annual value for the purpose of income tax does not exceed £50 ’ . |
| 22 | ( Incidentally , most bureau will buy in typefaces for clients so long as either the client pays for it or there is going to be sufficient volume of work to justify it . ) |
| 23 | About 300 metres of each , I 've torn to make the covers so far but I 'm still doing it because each one has to be the right size and colour-coded by room . |
| 24 | We are unlikely to follow the example of the Japanese , who tax their second-hand cars so punitively that you would be grateful to buy new . |
| 25 | The intention is thus to narrow the matters in dispute between the parties so far as possible and , in theory at least , to give both parties advance notice of what the other case is . |
| 26 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 27 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 28 | Invective flowed from the pens of all parties and violence from their partizans so long as the feud between the Sailors and Firemen and the Seafarers continued . |
| 29 | They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house . |
| 30 | ‘ None of the calls have hit me between the eyes so far as the vital piece of information , but I 'm still hopeful that what we need may be in there , ’ he said . |