Example sentences of "[noun] so [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 2 | When the philosopher-agronomists advocated new crops and new methods they were met with the excuse so often given to Cavanilles on his tour of Aragon , ‘ We do as our fathers do . ’ |
| 3 | In both the cases so far considered in this Chapter , the customer took the goods under an agreement between himself and the dealer . |
| 4 | Here the answer must be found through small-scale sustainable business initiatives — difficult to foster without the huge scale of corporate funding so often avalanched into the developing world , but modestly emerging never the less . |
| 5 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
| 6 | She half held it out to Ellie as fair play so obviously fought with desire — and Ellie took the decision out of her hands by shouting , ‘ She 's found one ! ’ |
| 7 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 8 | Like the little half-eaten ostrich so expertly reconstructed by Gould back in England , much of what Darwin had seen on the voyage had to be reassessed and re-evaluated after the event . |
| 9 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 10 | The result is a very friendly room without the formality so often associated with many dining areas . |
| 11 | As Randolph Churchill so eloquently described in The Fight for the Tory Leadership , Macmillan had seen Hailsham on the Monday before the Conference and indicated that in the event of retirement he would support his candidature . |
| 12 | But it is gon na be a lengthy er injury and that is a major blow so successfully converted from centre half to striker . |
| 13 | Not only will the specialist interest programme go but so too will the minority programmes so carefully nurtured by organizations seeking to satisfy a broad spectrum of interests and groups . |
| 14 | Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 15 | * These are reprinted , along with other of Sickert 's writings in the invaluable booklet Walter Sickert ; Advice to young Artists so expertly edited by Lynda Morris , and published to coincide with the Norwich School of Art Gallery exhibition of works by Sickert in May 1986 , to which I am greatly indebted . |
| 16 | So I put it to him , ‘ Being famous does n't necessarily endow a guitarist with insight into the design and workings of the guitar , so why are artists so often asked for their input and reviewers almost never , when our job is to understand , examine and pass judgement on guitars on a daily basis ? ’ |
| 17 | Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas . |
| 18 | He had , quote , rarely seen a case so well managed as in this case , unquote . |
| 19 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 20 | I quote him at length , not only because he has drawn attention to a hitherto neglected type of Earth Mysteries site , but because his experience so entirely accords with my own . |
| 21 | With the kind of support so far received from SOED and SRC , the indications are that the learning and teaching of modern languages will become increasingly effective — especially for those children in need of support . |
| 22 | Such contracts so far account for around 15% of most institutes ' funds . |
| 23 | It was time to jettison a faith so badly shaken by events , and be a convert to outdated gradualism after all . |
| 24 | Yusuf 's forces returned in strength and began to win back many of the states so recently conquered by Alfonso and by El Cid in their separate campaigns . |
| 25 | But consider : ( 1 ) It is possible to follow periodic orbits numerically with changing parameter ( even if they are unstable ) ; every orbit so far examined in the Lorenz equations can be traced , at least in one direction , to a homoclinic bifurcation . |
| 26 | It was Metroland , the inter-war middle-class paradise so lovingly celebrated by Sir John Betjeman . |
| 27 | We know that niello is a metal sulphide , made by heating metal filings with sulphur , but could there be a continuity of tradition amongst the metalworkers of cultures so widely separated by time and geography ? |
| 28 | Even a Board of Guardians so unusually influenced by Labour as that of Poplar was reluctant to pay out-door relief to the unemployed . |
| 29 | His Lordship thought that it would be a strange doctrine of " looking for the substance " or looking through the documents which would produce a contractual intention so clearly negated by the documents and by oral evidence . |
| 30 | Perhaps the undramatic cosiness so often depicted on the screen is only a symptom of an unproductive cosiness in British film production . |