Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb base] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 2 | Does he realise that we need to deal urgently with the special car tax and to review the punitive arrangements affecting company cars that have so badly hit the Jaguar car company in my constituency ? |
| 3 | Those demands that have so far been made have come from Slovakia , the most controversial concerning a fourteenth-century Italian Gothic altar . |
| 4 | ‘ Despite the new Golf 's unadventurous styling , ’ I wrote , ‘ Volkswagen deserves an accolade for putting its commercial weight and influence so heavily behind safety and environmental concerns … consistent emphasis on durability and reliability … inspired engineering of the VR6 version … ‘ |
| 5 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
| 6 | They set about an extensive programme of repair and renovation of the complex and have so far successfully restored one of the Clutterbuck water wheels , as well as a Tangye Compound Steam Engine ( plus a portable boiler ) , that formerly powered stick making machinery . |
| 7 | Bricks and mortar so far as I 'm concerned . |
| 8 | That 's why Speedbird holidays give such pleasure and work so well . |
| 9 | A key question is how the management of the market imperfections that have so strongly influenced investment behaviour in the past will be conducted in the future . |
| 10 | The days of the truly great power portrait , the majestic Victorian and Edwardian canvases that hang so solemnly in the darker corridors of the National Portrait Gallery , have long since gone . |
| 11 | But the improvements that have so far been effective — the so-called Green Revolution programmes — have been highly energy-intensive because of their dependence on irrigation , fertilisers and mechanisation . |
| 12 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |
| 13 | He could n't tell when the singing came to an end , or the Archbishop 's voice was first raised , addressing the city ; offering it God 's peace and succour so long as the Feast of Christ lasted . |
| 14 | How forego thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined , to live again in these wild woods forlorn . |
| 15 | This ‘ splendid isolation ’ was explicable twenty or even ten years ago when the field of humanities computing was so wide open and the methods appropriate to historical teaching and research so poorly developed . |
| 16 | If that is what he thinks , he should withdraw his tax plans and withdraw his minimum wage plans and do so today . |
| 17 | The manager of the recruiting bureau may or may not be present at the interview , but may be present when discussion takes place afterwards , or may have submitted a written report on the recruit 's attitudes and progress so far in the bureau . |
| 18 | ‘ The National Front Disco ’ is such a self-evidently silly title and the sentiments and tone so obviously satirical that you 'd have to be pretty blinkered to be offended by it . |
| 19 | With the devoted assistance of several technical wizards we converted my A-frame into an alchemist 's chamber of optical and electronic apparatus with which to visualize the unseen dimensions of sound and form so often described by metaphysicians . |
| 20 | The inter-relationship of body and dress so self-consciously referred to in many of Kahlo 's most polemical works ( Fig. 12 ) has been strangely inverted by her current popularity . |
| 21 | When he was shot he was not wearing his jacket or tie so presumably he felt at home , wherever it was . ’ |
| 22 | As the view from its windows alters at sunset ‘ into a distant phantom ’ , so too will the house , ‘ not the first or the last of beautiful things that look so near and will so change ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he admits , ‘ I hear things that sound so ridiculously like something I do that it 's not funny . ’ |
| 24 | All this will be used as a basis for a critical scrutiny of the efforts that have so far been made to stimulate rural development , and the changing fortunes of the rural population in this part of Pakistan . |
| 25 | And with unnerving certainty she knew that something was in the corridor with her — something that blended its colour and shape so perfectly that it was invisible . |
| 26 | I did n't even notice that , but I did notice her across the road at Mrs and know so right she 'd been there I just did n't notice where she went , but I heard the bell ring and I could see this anorak through there and me mind thought Mrs , perhaps it 's Mrs but then when I saw this this lady well I just did n't know what to think really . |
| 27 | ‘ Out of these two movements which follow upon each other and fuse so successfully , is born an art that is simple and noble , expressive and precise , passionate in its search for beauty , and ready to tackle those vast subjects which yesterday 's painters feared to undertake , leaving them to antiquated , boring and pretentious daubers of the official Salons . ’ |
| 28 | Louise was equally anxious to see this man who had had the power to persuade her niece to go against her upbringing and character and behave so recklessly after such a brief acquaintance . |
| 29 | They also agreed to send observers into potential flashpoints of neighbouring Kosovo and Macedonia to prevent a repeat of the civil war in two regions that have so far escaped violence . |
| 30 | The existence of this ring had been inferred after the fly-by of Pioneer 11 in 1974 , which was the second of four spacecraft that have so far been to Jupiter . |