Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] so [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 2 | He did not openly support the maintenance of the power of the House of Lords to veto legislation but he seemed to do so implicitly since he expressed concern that the authority of the Lords had been ‘ gravely diminished ’ He did , however , explicitly propose the introduction of proportional representation arguing that it ‘ may sometimes secure a hearing in the House of Commons for opinions which , though containing a good deal of truth , command little or comparatively little popularity ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ And stay in England ? ’ asked her mama , not wishing to lose a Sally-Anne who , for whatever reason , seemed to have changed so greatly since she had last seen her , as a spoiled , petulant and wilful child , thinking only of herself . |
| 4 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 5 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |
| 6 | Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty in Britain and have done so ever since the systematic studies of Charles Booth ( 1894 ) at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | It was very controversial at the time and it 's remained so ever since , and indeed in both Britain and America there are political movements right now to change minimum wage laws in , in ways that I think Florence Kelly would deeply have disapproved of . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ Things have progressed so quickly since the initial idea last year that we are now seeking bookings a good bit earlier than expected . ’ |