Example sentences of "[vb infin] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Anglers are presently major users of the Derwent and would remain so even if the river were reinstated for use by power craft . ) |
| 2 | you 're five eight you 're five eight , you stand , you st I do n't think same size as my mum I do n't think so somehow cos my mums five eight and my mums erm quite tall |
| 3 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 4 | His insecurity will persist so long as he bottles up change , no matter how well his ruling party behaves . |
| 5 | ‘ How can an athlete train and prepare so well and be so good and take so long to recover ? |
| 6 | All their friends are doing it , and they are aware that never again will they be in the situation where young people of similar ages , interests and academic abilities can mingle so freely and in such numbers . |
| 7 | Your employer may behave so foolishly or ruthlessly that a sensible settlement of your differences seems impossible . |
| 8 | He was certain that Scarlet would never behave so irrationally but could not quite rid himself of the image of the breakfast table . |
| 9 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 10 | Besides , if Maidstone could predict so accurately when Elsie would appear then it would be a simple matter to find her again — perhaps at the same time tomorrow . |
| 11 | I 'll , I 'll ask this other girl who I do n't know so well but I 'm sure if she 's going that way , she , you know , she 's in that area anyway . |
| 12 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 13 | It 's odd how you can chat so animatedly whilst someone you 've only just met is poking your most intimate spots , is n't it ? |
| 14 | Share prices could fall so far that his cash offer for DRG , the Basildon Bond company , starts to look attractive . |
| 15 | You must never allow yourself to be crowded out , neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary . |
| 16 | The older the child the longer you can wait so long as there are no other signs of serious illness . |
| 17 | Such prejudices will flourish so long as hard facts are unavailable , and facts about sex in schools are practically non-existent because no education authority is likely to commission research on the subject . |
| 18 | Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ? |
| 19 | and because they wo n't break so easily and erm , they 're light because you do n't want to drag down to the floor do you ? basically |
| 20 | There is one potential hazard associated with dense ivy growth on a living tree — it may grow so rapidly and thickly that any fungal growth may be hidden . |
| 21 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 22 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |
| 23 | If the language is slang , what does it matter so long as the preachers are radiant with the experience they speak of , and live in the midst of the same social situation , with all its problems and difficulties , as the listeners ? |
| 24 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |
| 25 | Fortunately the coughing did n't really matter so far as Tinkerbell was concerned … the light is supposed to flash erratically … but the noise was rather off-putting . |
| 26 | You swore each and every one of you to undertake this task , you must do so fearlessly and without fear or favour consider the evidence … |
| 27 | You swore each and every one of you , to undertake this task , you must do so fearlessly and without fear or favour consider the evidence and let the chips lie where they fall . |
| 28 | I 'll name no names at this stage , but will do so fearlessly if the exhibition continues much longer . |
| 29 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 30 | erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them . |