Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] so " 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 | In contrast , the to infinitive could not be used in the following two sentences , where reference is made to nonce happenings : ( 119 ) I never knew anyone do so much in so short a time . |
| 3 | The hand of friendship , extended so warmly by so many , was rudely brushed aside by those who believed they knew best . |
| 4 | Consequently , even if a non-member country may possibly be entitled not to recognise a flag granted in a manner contrary to the Geneva Convention , it can do so only in so far as there is no ‘ genuine link , ’ regardless as to its nature , between the vessel and the state whose flag it is flying . |
| 5 | I think having I think having waited so patiently for so long that you can wait a little lo further . |
| 6 | As Federation secretary she was much involved in arranging Saturday lectures , concerts , jumble sales , theatre visits and suchlike for the branches : ‘ these would probably be arranged by the Federation officials without me , but perhaps not on so large a scale ’ . |
| 7 | We can not be sure that they do so directly for so far no adult eel has been caught in mid-Atlantic . |
| 8 | He wanted to say her name but he could not remember it ; he wanted to engage in the physical endearments and gentleness he so much prided himself on bestowing and was received so gratefully for so doing , but this lean , hard-bodied girl would have none of it . |
| 9 | All I can say is that at the time everything fitted together perfectly into so glaringly obvious a pattern that I was amazed I had never seen it before . |
| 10 | Fires banked down so strongly for so long … |
| 11 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 12 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 13 | It paves the way for George Bush to speak of a ‘ new world order ’ , while simultaneously launching the largest military operation since World War II to preserve the ‘ old world order ’ that has served he and his colleagues so well for so long . |
| 14 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 15 | With Windows NT still a gleam in Bill Gates ' eye , OS/2 2.0 can lay claim to the goodness high ground , and it is difficult to see what more IBM could have done to make it electable — its erstwhile friends would say that it has cynically ditched all its principles — of closed systems , tight central control , the whole ‘ nanny knows best and you 'd better believe it ’ ethos that served the company so well for so long , and led to a string of successes at the ballot box in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 16 | I suggest that he and his friends in Ealing , North — which he has represented so well for so many years — put together a festival that would be of interest to young people , and also to the important artists whom he mentioned . |
| 17 | I say may be , because cask-conditioned beer is being reinstated so fast in so many pubs that it is becoming almost impossible to keep up with the total . |
| 18 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 19 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 20 | Those places in army units were invariably awarded through political interest , though admittedly rarely in so blatant a manner as that adopted by Sir David Cunynghame , a West Lothian politician , when disposing of the junior medical officer 's place in his regiment in 1760 . |
| 21 | All the while a dark suspicion was growing in Nora 's mind : a ringer that broke and ran dead straight for so many miles . |
| 22 | Well only in so much as we do n't get big bills . |
| 23 | Reference is made to the report for the hearing for a fuller account of the facts in the proceedings before the national court , the course of the procedure and the written observations submitted to the Court of Justice , which are mentioned or discussed hereinafter only in so far as is necessary for the reasoning of the court . |
| 24 | ‘ I played pretty well for so early in the tournament , ’ said Seles after handing the French girl her third successive first round defeat here . |
| 25 | trills , very loud for so small a bird . ’ |
| 26 | A big THANK YOU to those teachers who have worked so very hard in so many various ways to encourage this scheme and above all a big THANK YOU to our class members who after all are the backbone of our Society ; it would be impossible to raise money without their help . |