Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been described as " the affection of a man that clingeth to God , a homely and pious speaking , a standing of the enlightened soul unto enjoying for so long as may be " . |
| 2 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 3 | The analogy holds in so far as stylistic competence , like linguistic competence , is a capacity which we possess and exercise unconsciously and intuitively : only with special training can it be turned into explicit knowledge . |
| 4 | Technically it does not : the right is still upheld in so far as the jury are told that no inferences can be drawn from silence in the face of allegations . |
| 5 | This ‘ immediacy ’ of meaning in oral society he relates to the society 's functional needs , citing Malinowski 's claim that ‘ in the Trobriands the outer world was only named in so far as it yielded useful things ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 6 | We will not follow Gassendi in much of this , but it will be of interest to note what he says in so far as it relates to experience . |
| 7 | BCG does not say ‘ invest and grow ’ here , but implies that investment should be made in so far as it is needed to maintain a favourable position ; BCG seems to be ambivalent here about the need to invest to increase market share . |
| 8 | The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 10 | The only safe definition is negative : it is a school which admits pupils of all academic standards and without a test or assessment of ability ( save in so far as that may be used to secure what came to be known as ‘ a balanced intake ’ ) . |
| 11 | The latter was a prestige objective save in so far as it was a stepping stone to Indonesia . |
| 12 | 10.3 The Tenant acknowledges that [ its ] obligations under this agreement and the Lease shall not be affected or lessened in any way by the fact that there may now or subsequently exist any Restrictions and the Tenant shall with effect from the Possession Date comply with and indemnify the Landlord in respect of any liability under any Restrictions ( whether made before or after the Possession Date ) save in so far as such liability arises from failure by the Landlord to comply with [ its ] obligations under clause 2.2.2 It need hardly be said that the tenant 's solicitor should make all usual inquiries to ascertain whether any such restrictions exist at the date of the agreement . |
| 13 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 14 | The literary tradition is valued in so far as it offers a critical evaluation of this transformation and its consequences . |
| 15 | So she sent them on immediately , longing to know what they contained and never finding out , but supposing that so long as they did keep coming the worst could not yet have happened . |
| 16 | What I found , though , was that what appeared to be a very good erm system from an ideal point of view was actually terribly hard to cope with so far as the teachers were concerned . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , the Queen of the Night , always called your mother that , you know , because of her amazing devotion to sleep , which she seemed to prefer to almost any other activity , in particular to that which I believe today 's lovers refer to so elegantly as ‘ boffing ’ or ‘ shafting ’ … . |
| 18 | Knowledge , teaching and learning are only justified in so far as they contribute to that much more ambitious end . |
| 19 | Any deficiencies in this software may be forgiven in so far as it is distributed entirely free of charge ; no registration fee is requested by the author . |
| 20 | Secondly , agency discretion should be limited in so far as this is compatible with efficient operational decisions . |
| 21 | Moreover , the covenant to perform on the part of the original lessee is merely a covenant to perform in so far as another party , similarly liable , has not performed or otherwise discharged the obligation . |
| 22 | First , where the obligations are non-cumulative , i.e. the obligation of each is to perform in so far as it has not been performed by any other party , the acceptance of some other performance in lieu of the promised performance relieves the others . |
| 23 | The request that you have done me the honour to make , to receive the record of my voice , is one that I cheerfully comply with so far as lies in my power ; though I lament to say that the voice which I transmit to you is only the relic of an organ the employment of which has been overstrained . |
| 24 | He 's reduced the amount of water in his lavatory system and does n't let the tap run for so long when developing photographs in his darkroom at home . |
| 25 | The letter of the law was observed in so far as none of the names of the actual raped women were mentioned . |
| 26 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |
| 27 | The sickle lasted for so long as a harvesting tool for this very reason : it was still used in preference to the swap-hook and scythe in some areas because its use , although slower , conserved the grain . |
| 28 | ( 1c ) Finally , and this was the central issue in Benjamin 's ‘ The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction ’ , aura is lost in so far as texts themselves are reproducible . |
| 29 | The first is that the act of self-poisoning may have been rewarding in so far as any subsequent positive changes could be seen as resulting from the act itself . |
| 30 | ‘ I know you mean well , love , ’ he wrote , ‘ but Maureen and Chris have managed for so long because they have kept it so low key . |