Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 2 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 3 | The Yorkshire boxers ' misfortune at having to box twice so soon before the N-E Counties finals can only help the N-E division winners , who laid on another fine night of boxing at Gateshead Leisure Centre on Friday . |
| 4 | my copy of the constitution that I filed away so neatly when I received that months ago . |
| 5 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 6 | Er not very long because he er he started a business and er and he did n't do ever so well cos times were bad in the twenties you know as you know . |
| 7 | I did n't see why I should enjoy living again so soon when poor Catherine had had all that she valued slowly torn away from her … ’ |
| 8 | Most ceremonies take place in a synagogue , but can be performed anywhere so long as they are under a chuppah ( wedding canopy ) . |
| 9 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 10 | The system can function only so long as the financial stability of LCH 's position is preserved so that the risks normally inherent in futures and options trading are effectively balanced . |
| 11 | A tail-wheel with a rubber tyre will resist skidding sideways over tarmac , but it will not grip quite so well when it is bouncing over rough grass . |
| 12 | No man , nor even a dog , a monkey or a dolphin , would be fooled quite so readily as the robin , though we too react according to habituated mental patterns . |
| 13 | The desired formula ( strictly valid only if constituency seats and list seats are equal in number ) will then show that the system will function tidily so long as there is no party for which x exceeds 2y . |
| 14 | The two biggest Third World countries , China and India , were , by contrast with Brazil , doing well so far as growth rates are concerned . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew that my horse was capable of running well so long as he was all right . |
| 16 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 17 | Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations . |
| 18 | It 's just , I I you know , we were there and we 'd sort of gone past so rather than reverse |
| 19 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 20 | Through the winter months , the larger firms gave further assurances that they were willing " to take immediate steps for the gradual reduction of female comps " ; some it seems went even so far as to dismiss women . |
| 21 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 22 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 23 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 24 | How could he stand there so innocently when he 'd abused me ? |
| 25 | Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy . |
| 26 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 27 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 28 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 29 | He had left home so hurriedly as to have packed not one of the poetry volumes that he was very seldom without . |
| 30 | The LTE objected to the direction on the ground that it failed to have regard to the LTE 's financial duty under section 7(3) to break even so far as is practicable . |