Example sentences of "[prep] so [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planting , staking and feeding have been talked and written about so frequently that it really is astounding how many questions and problems still occur about these subjects . |
| 2 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 3 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 4 | ‘ I know you mean well , love , ’ he wrote , ‘ but Maureen and Chris have managed for so long because they have kept it so low key . |
| 5 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Hunt said of the changes in the poll tax rules for teenagers : ‘ A new wider exemption will apply to all young adults under the age of 20 for so long as they are still at school or in full-time further — though not higher -education . ’ |
| 7 | The House of Lords held that parental rights are recognised in law only for so long as they are needed for the protection of the child . |
| 8 | By his order dated 12 May 1992 Waite J. directed that in the interim pending a further hearing in the events that ( 1 ) J. 's medical condition changed so that his life was threatened but was capable of being prolonged by intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( 2 ) he was at that time in the health authority 's care and ( 3 ) the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority were to cause such measures , including artificial ventilation , to be applied to J. for so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 9 | Health Authority do cause such measures ( including , if so required to prolong his life , artificial ventilation ) to be applied to [ J. ] for so long as they are capable of prolonging his life . |
| 10 | The order which he in fact made was against the health authority requiring it to ‘ cause such measures ( including , if so required to prolong his life , artificial ventilation ) to be applied to [ the child ] for so long as they are capable of prolonging his life . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 10.7.10 The rights and licences hereby granted or agreed to be granted to a Non-academic Party pursuant to Clauses 10.7.2 b to 10.7.6 shall be exercisable on identical terms by any Related company of that Party for so long as it remains such , subject to the obtaining from such companies of suitable undertakings as to confidence and delivery up . |
| 14 | 8.1 Neither party shall be under any liability to the other if and for so long as it is prevented from or delayed in performing any of its obligations under this Agreement by reason of circumstances beyond its reasonable control . |
| 15 | Probably too much so on the political side , in so far that er er looking back , it seems that w w we were isolated from other young people , in so far that we were associated with straight political er activity and er straight political movement . |
| 16 | Er , in so far that my father had been dismissed from the er from the coal mining industry , er before just before nineteen twenty six , and he was officially unemployed . |
| 17 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 18 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 19 | But this was a drama , the story of the circumstances of Van Gogh 's life ; ‘ No attempt has been made , ’ wrote Meier-Graefe , ‘ to make a critical analysis of the pictures , which enter upon the scene only in so far as they concern the drama directly or indirectly . ’ |
| 20 | The republicanism of Irish socialist nationalists was of course logical in so far as they interpreted imperialism as an enemy of the indigenous population and as an expropriator of the people . |
| 21 | Leavisites , of course , claimed that they were committed to discussion , argument , the free play of mind ; in so far as they were , it was contained within the enclosing form of life , not directed against it , rather like arguments within Marxist-Leninist ideology . |
| 22 | Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters . |
| 23 | Except in so far as they publicized opinion poll findings , television projections of party credibility did not dictate public perceptions . |
| 24 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 25 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |
| 26 | But the distinctions between ‘ high ’ and ‘ low ’ in so far as they are doctrinal do of necessity affect devotional practice . |
| 27 | Even the cults of Real Soul , Third World Music and Go Go are forms of regressive rock , in so far as they 're fantasies generated within rock press discourse , and represent a retreat from the studio and technology in search of roots and ‘ raw truth ’ . |
| 28 | The better opinion is that the pre-1926 priorities of the legal over the equitable estate , and of the earlier in time over the later , still apply , except in so far as they are abrogated by the provisions of the 1925 legislation . |
| 29 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 30 | Secondly , the Rules were flawed in so far as they did not seem to anticipate the possibility of problems created by the piecemeal acquisition of bonds either by occasional buying out or by gift . |