Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 2 | Japanese money alone has so far created 4 1/2 thousand new jobs . |
| 3 | While survey or statistical research is often geared towards testing some specific hypothesis or , at least , examining the relationship between clearly defined conceptual categories , ethnographic research rarely proceeds so smoothly ( cf Rose , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Observers who have been taken by Paisley 's personal influence over his followers have often missed the point that those who supported Paisley only did so conditionally and the condition was that he continued to articulate traditional unionist positions . |
| 5 | Those who persisted with their postgraduate study often did so purely in order to go abroad . |
| 6 | In a passage which reads very oddly indeed today and betrays his naïveté , Durkheim even went so far as to claim that such was the depressing degree of homogeneity in primitive society that its members were actually physically indistinguishable from each other ! |
| 7 | As we filmed the elephants in Amboseli National Park , East Africa , the animals sometimes wandered so close to us that we could hear their trunks ripping the grass and their stomachs churning . |
| 8 | Despite the budget 's eye-catching austerity , and a recession in France that continues to deepen , complaints from unions and opposition parties alike have so far been muted . |
| 9 | For example , if continued family contact is in the child 's best interest , social workers should make sure at the matching stage that the proposed new parents really believe so too . |
| 10 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 11 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 12 | The basal conglomerate in England is full of boulders of a distinctive purple , " liver-coloured " and white quartzites that have been matched with the Gres de May and the Gres Armoricain right across the other side of the English Channel in Brittany ( though I regard with some scepticism the notion that the boulders here travelled so far ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The engine then answered so much better than anything which had been tried before that the same principle has been followed ever since . ’ |
| 14 | James Bond never lived so luxuriously . |
| 15 | In the first set he simply was n't in the same class as his 21-year-old opponent in the huge Olympic Hall , at times pleading theatrically with Ferreira not to hit so hard , and giving his racket to a ball-boy as if to say , ‘ you have a go , you ca n't be worse than me . ’ |
| 16 | The package not discussed so far is ADRS . |
| 17 | I just wish they 'd stagger lecture finishing times because the corridors just get so totally packed |
| 18 | Interwar balcony-access flats are the most reviled and degraded of all local-authority housing types , so it 's odd to find the Butlins versions still functioning so well for their temporary inhabitants . |
| 19 | Above all , I do not believe the people of Britain want to see our constitutional monarchy , the ‘ eternal jewel ’ with which our political liberties are bound up , brought into danger or contention by the deceptive device once adopted so ill-advisedly so many years ago for a purpose that is past . |
| 20 | Well no , the reason I and because these things just go so quickly |
| 21 | The children had also done their share , not always wholly willingly , to help the family whose problems now seemed so closely linked with their own . |
| 22 | Those who fled during the Cultural Revolution often did so alone , others carrying two children on their backs across the Himalayan mountains to join the 100,000 strong refugee communities in India , where today a committed group have devoted their lives to working for the Tibetan cause . |
| 23 | Some farmers even go so far as to grow continuous cereal crops indefinitely — barley on the lighter land and winter wheat on the strong clays . |
| 24 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 25 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 26 | The duty to a lawful visitor only extends so long as , and so far as the lawful visitor is making what can reasonably be contemplated as an ordinary and reasonable use of the premises by the lawful visitor for the purposes for which he has been invited . |
| 27 | The Mother Superior noted this at once , but was far too wise to press Topaz , and warned the other Sisters not to do so either . |
| 28 | The British War Cabinet even went so far as to create a special committee to guide Swinton during the talks . |
| 29 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 30 | Cash 's liberalism only extends so far — he has always stood for old-fashioned values like God , country and being handy in a knife fight . |