Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 2 | Descartes had held that such a language could be so devised as to ‘ assist men 's judgement , representing matters so clearly that it would be almost impossible to go wrong ’ . |
| 3 | You do n't enjoy things so much when you get older . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He was a soldier , you know , ’ she had said , podding peas so rapidly that Sally-Anne was full of awe for such expertise , pea-podding being difficult , she had discovered . |
| 5 | Of course , some people will refuse to co-operate at all , but once an interview is under way most people will be prepared to answer questions so long as they seem genuine and relevant . |
| 6 | Have you ever seen things so clearly as when you were first in love ? |
| 7 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
| 8 | They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house . |
| 9 | She somehow manages to put invitations so cleverly that I can hardly refuse them — will I advise her about a job move , will I try out a new restaurant with her before she entertains a client there ? |
| 10 | How many had been beggared while the war between the royal cousins had swept across their fields or through their towns , while the barons who should have protected them looked only to their own gain , shifting loyalties so often that the ordinary common man found himself constantly besieged and attacked by both sides ? |
| 11 | Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all . |
| 12 | The good readers , in contrast , seem to recognise words so quickly that the beneficial ( or harmful ) effects of context do not have time to take effect . |
| 13 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 14 | Sporting gentlemen of the pre-Victorian period saw no harm in making money through playing games so long as this was a matter of gambling ; nor did they mind mixing with others of a lower class , who derived the bulk of their income in this way , provided distinctions of birth were recognized and preserved . |
| 15 | RICHARD Gere is desperate to have children so long as he does not have to change any nappies . |
| 16 | This last choice is desirable but it only delays things so far as getting home is concerned , since the forest road stops on the frontier some three miles away , and there you can but turn round . |
| 17 | Officers should be allowed ‘ to take part in conspiracies to import drugs so long as they withdrew prior to importation . ’ |
| 18 | It seems to me that they all have implications so far as people 's lives are concerned — their activities , their rewarding work , in a sense . |
| 19 | The only purpose of this sweet liquid is to please insects so greatly that they become addicted to it and devote all possible time during the flowering season to collecting it . |