Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these conditions , the type of homosexuality that is mediated through pop music can only go just so far : in a perfect paradigm , Frankie Goes to Hollywood exploited the gay image of lead singers Paul Rutherford and Holly Johnson — for ‘ Relax ’ — and then dropped it like a hot potato as soon as another marketing device — this time , nuclear war became available for ‘ Two Tribes ’ . |
| 2 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 3 | To take an obvious case , modern manufacturing industries can only go on so long as there are capitalists and workers . |
| 4 | This may not fall quite so easily into the category of a communications medium as you see it , but its relevance will be glaringly obvious later . |
| 5 | Realizing the extent of the betrayal , it was clear to both of them that they could not hang around so close to the target area hoping for survivors . |
| 6 | If the grid lines are printed in blue they will not show up so clearly when the plot is photocopied ( which is usually an advantage ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Those bastards do not give up so easily , eh ? |
| 8 | He specified certain military installations " which Russia can not give up so easily " , and the legislation affecting the Russian-speaking population of Latvia and Estonia , specifically the citizenship laws [ see p. 38880 ] . |
| 9 | Wayne Larkins did not begin quite so strikingly but was an undeniably happy man . |
| 10 | A rival cheetah that does n't have such big leg muscles may not run quite so fast , but it has resources to spare for making an extra lot of milk and therefore perhaps rearing another cub . |
| 11 | A tail-wheel with a rubber tyre will resist skidding sideways over tarmac , but it will not grip quite so well when it is bouncing over rough grass . |
| 12 | Since culture did not hammer quite so hard on Mrs Frizzell 's door , she had more time to plan parties . |
| 13 | Serious collapse was avoided ( though , as one official involved recalled , ‘ it was pretty close at the end ’ ) , but the new style of government as a whole did not stand up so well . |
| 14 | But the pomp and splendour did not go down so well with Craig Chalmers . |
| 15 | That may not go down so well in the middle of Leicester Square if you are wearing a suit . |
| 16 | Drinking coffee from bowls was universally thought to be charming , but other eccentricities did not go down so well . |
| 17 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 18 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 19 | ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true . |
| 20 | The theme of instrumentality does not come through so strongly in relation to personal care as it does in other types of support . |
| 21 | But his mother did not come through so well . |
| 22 | He says that he would not get on so well with her if he had his meals with her , but as he lives quite separately they are very friendly and he likes to know that they are near if he wants company . ’ |
| 23 | Where Foster and old Mond might not get on so well is in the argument of research-driven v market-driven advance . |
| 24 | They can not get around so nimbly in scrub vegetation as the Norfolk lurcher ; they are really for coursing , for a long chase after hares , and my animals are not used for that . |
| 25 | They would not get away so lightly today . |
| 26 | If we do not invest our oil reserves wisely , for the future , we may not get off so lightly next time . |
| 27 | I find that the full needle welt is kinder to the mature figure ( like mine ) when it is to be followed by a tuck stitch fabric as it does not pull in so quite much as the 2x1 rib . |
| 28 | However , fostering does not always work out so well . |
| 29 | In practice they do not always turn out so much better , for a number of reasons . |
| 30 | ‘ The balls did n't often come quite so far . |