Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it only goes so far . |
| 2 | Japanese money alone has so far created 4 1/2 thousand new jobs . |
| 3 | but you see that only lasts so long they , they perish |
| 4 | Candida can convert to the hyphal form in infected areas of the skin or vagina , but it only does so partially — most of the Candida is still in the typical yeast form . |
| 5 | The duty to a lawful visitor only extends so long as , and so far as the lawful visitor is making what can reasonably be contemplated as an ordinary and reasonable use of the premises by the lawful visitor for the purposes for which he has been invited . |
| 6 | Cash 's liberalism only extends so far — he has always stood for old-fashioned values like God , country and being handy in a knife fight . |
| 7 | This bid for greater accessibility only extends so far to mainstream and international subjects — many of the most interesting studies on medieval art are by German authors , and these are published in German only . |
| 8 | I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman has made an estimate of the cost impact on British business or the United Kingdom economy of the proposal that he apparently makes so glibly . |
| 9 | Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , but then she always looks so much nicer than I do , ’ Belinda responded guilelessly . |
| 11 | It is his 81st , is dedicated to the pit communities for which he still cares so deeply even though the pits have all but vanished , and costs £1 for a miner 's sideways look at life which is probably no more . |
| 12 | Hobnobbing in TV circles he may even get to meet Richard Briars and solve a mystery that 's plagued him for years : Those voice-overs he does for ads on the telly , he always sounds so out of breath . |
| 13 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm a bit tired of being described just as a jazz singer or with words like ‘ abstract ’ , ’ she says , responding to reviews that have tried a little too hard to distance her from the rave scene she still feels so much a part of . |
| 14 | She reveals that she has always carried a photograph of Levy in her handbag and still does so today . |
| 15 | Shelley was not at his best , yet he always talks so beautifully . ’ |
| 16 | Since there still remains so much more archaeological work to do on Santorin , three more completely documented eruptions will be described in this chapter . |
| 17 | If a trailer begins to ‘ snake ’ , the swinging often develops so quickly that within seconds there is no way of stopping it and avoiding going right off the road . |
| 18 | And of course he really sounds so well spoken . |
| 19 | Furthermore , where either depression or schizophrenia are provoked or triggered by an event , disorder typically follows so rapidly that intervention after the event and before the emergence of disorder is unlikely to be a practical possibility . |
| 20 | He was a linebacker at Williams College yet another member of the so-called ‘ Williams Mafia ’ that now occupies so conspicuously large a percentage of the country 's key museum posts and served on a Navy ammunition boat in Vietnam before pursuing graduate studies in nineteenth-century American and European art at Harvard . |
| 21 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 22 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 23 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 24 | He even goes so far , as to claim that ‘ notionally , in the short term you could achieve the necessary revenue only with the IBM customers … |
| 25 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
| 26 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 27 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 28 | It really looks something , and judging from the amount of saliva I have to keep wiping off the top , everyone else thinks so too . |
| 29 | Well done , that was absolutely first rate , I mean erm , it was a difficult er , task you had , especially as the book was n't in the library , of which I am deeply apologetic , because I thought it was , and er , I thought you er , you coped with a very difficult assignment extremely well , and I think you can have an extra and I 'm sure everyone else thinks so too . |
| 30 | While survey or statistical research is often geared towards testing some specific hypothesis or , at least , examining the relationship between clearly defined conceptual categories , ethnographic research rarely proceeds so smoothly ( cf Rose , 1982 ) . |