Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 2 | From October , with the birth of the British Athletics Federation ( BAF ) , British athletics should finally give the sport the constitution it has for so long struggled to devise . |
| 3 | The new Act abolished the old method of arranging with creditors by a deed of composition , assignment or otherwise ‘ which has for so long a time disgraced our law ’ . |
| 4 | The one at Marham in Norfolk incorporates a World War One aeroplane of unspecified type and that at Upwood the Canberra which has for so long been associated with the RAF station . |
| 5 | A recently released consultant 's report commissioned by the local authorities declared that the arrival of the Llangollen Railway in Corwen would be the single most important factor in the economic regeneration of the town which has for so long lived in the shadow of Llangollen , ten miles to the east . |
| 6 | The second site , at Chedworth , has for so long been accepted as the typical Romano-British villa , that one hesitates to question its function . |
| 7 | ‘ It can therefore be seen that variation from place to place in climax tropical lowland rain forest , which has for so long intrigued and challenged ecologists , is not open to any single or simple explanation . |
| 8 | But if the physical violence that Dick Francis writes of so well , without glorying in it , without dismissing it in the way cruder writers do as they allow a hero to leap into action after some terrible beating-up if this does not fire your imagination you can still write suspense novels that will satisfy readers every bit as well . |
| 9 | The analogy holds in so far as stylistic competence , like linguistic competence , is a capacity which we possess and exercise unconsciously and intuitively : only with special training can it be turned into explicit knowledge . |
| 10 | We will not follow Gassendi in much of this , but it will be of interest to note what he says in so far as it relates to experience . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 12 | She fits in so well . |
| 13 | of other things so er so that 's er seems like so far so good almost |
| 14 | The preventative , the word preventative comes in so frequently , and particularly in the children 's services , I agree with the second one , it but I would like to have a more detailed report er , on that second element which is on page seven , the last item before you get to elderly people . |
| 15 | And then that 's where the Mac comes in so importantly , because it gives you that straightaway . |