Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had felt that they were getting on so well until Edie appeared . |
| 2 | One might suppose it was already quite strong even if nothing else was done , especially so far as CD-ROM is concerned . |
| 3 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 4 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 5 | The jury 's verdict is " final " only so far as punishment by the criminal court is concerned . |
| 6 | Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects . |
| 7 | The bland Norwegian dropped it in so casually that Carrington made something of an idiot of himself . |
| 8 | Thus so far as difficulty in settling for ourselves , or agreeing with others , on the right answer to an ethical question turns on disagreement or doubt about factual matters , agreement on which would cause settled or agreed ethical attitudes , there is a place for reason in ethics . |
| 9 | I do guarantee it — just so long as Silvia passes her exams . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes I forget people too , but not so often as places . |
| 11 | Hungarians are no longer afraid , at least not so long as reformers run Russia , that Soviet tanks will snuff out their democratic experiment , as they did in 1956 . |
| 12 | But she had nice hair — not so long as Marie 's , but just as shiny . |
| 13 | Even more so now that victory seems to be slipping away from us . |
| 14 | Er not very long because he er he started a business and er and he did n't do ever so well cos times were bad in the twenties you know as you know . |
| 15 | Her eyes widened ever so slightly and Jaq regretted his phrasing . |
| 16 | The initiative for the change was British : full-backs , working in tandem , were catching forwards offside so often that games were becoming boring and gates were going down . |
| 17 | Also so long as consumption is not fully socialised ( surely an impossibility ) particular groups of workers will have an interest in raising their own particular level of consumption . |
| 18 | ‘ I have n't been up so late since Studio 54 closed , ’ confessed socialite Nan Kempner during a recent encounter . |
| 19 | She 'd never liked them much ; in fact she had only kept them up so long because Mary Connon long ago , almost on her first visit to the house , had been openly patronizing about them . |
| 20 | When , at last , she managed to speak , the words fluttered out so faintly that Melissa had to strain to catch them . |
| 21 | The two biggest Third World countries , China and India , were , by contrast with Brazil , doing well so far as growth rates are concerned . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proposals he has to improve marine safety , particularly so far as fishing boat losses are concerned . |
| 23 | Chung gains too from the fact that she is not balanced quite so closely as Perlman . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Informed sources say neither the more realistically-minded East German leaders nor the Russians believe that any sensible changes can be brought about so long as Mr Honecker , 77 , whose attitudes have become particularly rigid in recent months , is at the helm . |
| 26 | It is in Darién , however — at least so far as Panama 's administrators are concerned . |
| 27 | Still , to some extent , every modern economy , at least so far as ownership of some means of production or municipal enterprises or financial institutions are concerned , is a mixed economy . |
| 28 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 29 | To the outsider , psychoanalysis appears a pretty broad church , at least so far as dream interpretation is concerned . |
| 30 | Questions about the products suitability for use with forthcoming Apple products are met with a degree of silence reminiscent of a Trappist monk but the general assurance is that the product is ‘ future proof ’ , at least so far as Apple is concerned . |