Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 2 | How the Mini Master will be regarded by Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority remains to be seen , but the CAA has indicated so far that it will expect pilots flying the aircraft to be holders of a multi engine rating , which currently costs around £1,200 to obtain on a conventional twin aircraft . |
| 3 | In many industrialised market economies collective bargaining has become so firmly established that it is sometimes regarded as being virtually synonymous with the prevailing system of industrial relations . |
| 4 | ‘ The most a contestant has won so far is a small jar of face cream ’ , said Edna caringly . |
| 5 | SCOTLAND 'S industrial base has shrunk so dramatically that there are almost as many people unemployed as working in manufacturing , previously unpublished figures showed yesterday , writes Joy Copley . |
| 6 | CA-Unicenter for HP-UX has performed so well at four major beta sites says Islandia , New York-based Computer Associates International Inc , that the company is bringing the systems management product for mission-critical applications forward and it will now be generally available in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 7 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 8 | I think that 's why the play has survived so long because it has this peculiar charm . ’ |
| 9 | Christopher Columbus did it with a smaller crew than Taylor has tried so far . |
| 10 | The plan to construct a political union in Europe on the model of the German Federal Republic betrays just this kind of defective level of political maturity from which Germany has suffered so badly in the past . |
| 11 | Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ . |
| 12 | That 's as far as my thinking has got so far . ’ |
| 13 | That the programme has gone so well is a measure of the enormous effort put into it by a partnership of centres and SCOTVEC . |
| 14 | One of the reasons why Montgomerie has done so well as a professional is that he has stayed basically with the swing which brought him Walker Cup honours in his student days in Texas . |
| 15 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
| 16 | ‘ But it was n't two teenagers getting married so quickly , it was two grownups , well into their thirties . |
| 17 | Would another actress have fitted so perfectly the pensive , slightly sad role she created that so encapsulated Sydney Newman 's wish for human characters in awe of their out-of-time surroundings ? |
| 18 | The full list of schools to have entered so far is : Harton Comprehensive School , South Shields ; Ian Ramsey School , Hartburn , Stockton ; Sedgefield Community College , Sedgefield ; Boroughbridge High School , Boroughbridge ; Greencroft Comprehensive School , Stanley ; Lanchester St Bede 's Comprehensive School , Lanchester ; Filey School , Filey ; Hermitage Comprehensive School , Chester-le-Street ; Ferryhill Comprehensive School , Ferryhill ; Scalby School , Newby , Scarborough ; Brackenhole School , Middlesbrough ; Hedworthfield Comprehensive School , Jarrow ; Royal Grammar School , Newcastle . |
| 19 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 20 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 21 | Rachel was invited to join them and she was happy to do so , but for the rest of the day she could n't forget that moment when David had moved so close to her ; she could n't forget the look in his eyes , a look that had implied that the conclusions drawn by others about his intentions towards her could be well founded . |
| 22 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 23 | Unlike the sycophantic official court chronicles — the Shah Jehan Nama that Dr Jaffery had spent so long transcribing — the accounts of the two European travellers were packed with reams of malicious bazaar gossip . |
| 24 | Knowing full well that it was n't on her account that Travis had worked so hard , Leith shrugged . |
| 25 | His own queen , whom Surere had revered so deeply , when she requested that she be buried not in the new City of the Horizon , but near her old home , in the Valley of the Dead across the river from the Southern Capital , had been granted her wish , though it had hurt Akhenaten deeply . |
| 26 | The Harris/ITN exit poll shows that , overall , one in five people who voted Labour had done so tactically ( nearly a third of Lib Dem voters also did so ) . |
| 27 | This involved the creation of an Intendant-General of Finance and a number of Secretaries of State : the cumbersome system of councils on which the Spanish Habsburgs had relied so heavily in the previous century began to fall into disuse , the Council of Castile alone remaining important . |
| 28 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 29 | The French negotiators had very little leverage , because their president had indicated so often and so publicly his determination to reach an agreement as soon as possible . |
| 30 | However , as I have said , by the time the case was before us W. 's condition had changed so drastically that , whatever may have been the previous position , the court would have been in dereliction of its duty had it not overridden W. 's wishes and effectively confirmed the order made by Thorpe J. that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit . |