Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains .
2 It is his 81st , is dedicated to the pit communities for which he still cares so deeply even though the pits have all but vanished , and costs £1 for a miner 's sideways look at life which is probably no more .
3 For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary :
4 HAVING ducked the bullets once , Dennis Conner must do so again today if Stars & Stripes is not to be eliminated from the America 's Cup defenders ' trials in a sudden-death sail-off against Bill Koch 's Kanza .
5 I know of my hon. Friend 's interest in the matter , following the report of the Select Committee on Employment , and I can give an assurance that if the consultants ' report to which I referred has not yet reached the Department of Employment , it will do so as soon as possible .
6 We are currently considering all viewpoints , and I can assure my hon. Friend that when we are in a position to announce our final decision , we shall do so as speedily as possible .
7 I love dressmaking but ca n't do so much now as my hands are stiff with arthritis .
8 Indeed , they can do so more accurately than traditional methods .
9 As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with .
10 His theory required him to specify a reason why the human branch of the evolutionary tree had advanced so much further than those which led to the living apes .
11 The only way to conquer a fear is to face it , and to do so as frequently as possible .
12 I not only want to get married but I fully intend to do so as soon as possible , and to you , not to Dana .
13 If he was going to adopt this strategy , it made sense to do so as soon as possible — before new legislative elections renewed parliament 's mandate and while Algeria was still fresh in people 's memories .
14 It is the responsibility of the counsellor to move into the difficult area of feelings , and to do so as gently as possible .
15 But no system can wholly protect fools from their own folly or from the knavery of others , and the advantages of trying to do so as fully as possible have to be weighed against the disadvantages of imposing fetters on business conducted honestly and efficiently .
16 It was able to do so more easily when large-scale music publication , including a high proportion of Italian music , spread from Italy to France ( with Pierre Attaingnant in Paris from 1528 and Jacques Moderne at Lyons four years later ) , Germany ( with Georg Rhaw at Wittenberg from 1538 and Montanus ( Berg ) and Neuber at Nuremberg from 1542 ) , and the Netherlands ( with Tylman Susato at Antwerp from 1543 and Pierre Phalese at Louvain in 1545 ) .
17 The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast .
18 Above all , a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties .
19 If it does n't mean so much today as it did , it 's because rock is n't as strong as it was , it does n't matter so much anymore . ’
20 And eh that just stuck and the joins were alright It just took so long before as well did n't it .
21 Overall television fulfilled its public service role of informing the electorate , and did so particularly well as the election drew closer ; while the press fulfilled its self-assigned role as pamphleteers within a libertarian system , and did so with increasing effect as the election drew closer .
22 They do so automatically even if raised on a bottle , by humans .
23 They do so proudly rather than furtively , reckoning that the partnership is of self-evident benefit .
24 Many workers in Britain have argued in favour of special family courts for divorcing families , and for divorce conciliation services , to help couples who wish to separate do so as amicably as possible ( see for example , Parkinson , 1982 ) .
25 4 If you need to phone back , do so as soon as possible .
26 Yes , machines can process walnuts , along much the same lines as almonds , but they do so very poorly if what you arc after is whole halves .
27 It does so more thoroughly than was possible in Dr Reaney 's general exposition .
28 This convention works so powerfully precisely because , in life , it is not like that .
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