Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the so-called ‘ welfare state ’ has so far appeared unable to remedy any but the grossest forms of economic and social deprivation or effectively to restrict the range of wider socio-economic inequalities , in spite of the fiscal burden imposed on the population and the productive system as a whole . |
| 2 | The relevance of such multiple sensory realities to conventional evolutionary theory has so far remained unconsidered . |
| 3 | The pattern of ultrasonics at Rollright has so far remained elusive . |
| 4 | The only state that has so far escaped severe drought is Western Australia . |
| 5 | This is a key aspect of the refugee question which has so far received inadequate attention . |
| 6 | Disappointingly , the committee has so far felt able to recommend only a tiny step towards establishing acceptable levels of medical staffing in the NHS . |
| 7 | It may seem paradoxical , but New Historicism 's acknowledgement of a great complexity and subtlety between text and history and its hesitancy to make generalised claims for a culture has so far produced critical analysis of texts which tend to be recognisably similar to one another . |
| 8 | While such Parkinsonian notion has an attractive simplicity it has so far eluded empirical verification ( see Blumstein , Cohen and Gooding , 1983 , for the refutation of one such claim ) , it is clear that under certain circumstances capacity may act as a brake on population expansion . |
| 9 | But only one , the Advanced Battery Consortium , has so far attracted significant federal funding , with half of its four-year , $260-million programme being financed by the Department of Energy . |
| 10 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 11 | it is clear that the machinery of representative parliamentary democracy has so far proved unsuitable as the mechanism for translating personal preferences into day-to-day practice . |
| 12 | In fact , the search for universal criteria of rationality has so far proved fruitless . |
| 13 | This is caused by the slow leaching of elements from the unstable early soda glasses , and has so far proved impossible to replicate . |
| 14 | Mr Major says it has so far proved impossible to visit all areas of the UK . |
| 15 | But none of the various attempted explanations has so far proved satisfactory . |
| 16 | Needless to say it has so far proved difficult to find any sacrificial lambs among the building trade . |
| 17 | The reactions of an educated élite , the study of whose reading matter has so often given social and cultural historians their main access to the past , no longer remains the only documentation by which we can get at the culture of ‘ the common man ’ . |
| 18 | Most Escherichia coli promoters studied so far form stable open complexes with σ 70 -RNA polymerase which have relatively long half-lives and , therefore , are resistant to a competitor challenge . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was caused by the complicated influences of the valley where the men seemed so often to remain unmarried , sometimes perhaps because , as Beuno held , their mothers said there was no one good enough for them , sometimes because there simply was n't anyone . |
| 20 | That devil , born of isolation , he had seen so often destroy young men through exhaustion , frustration and despair . |
| 21 | Yet , tragically , the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years . |
| 22 | But then making life easier for the passenger is what BAA is all about , and to do so successfully takes careful planning . |
| 23 | Even the article ‘ Conductor ’ in the New Grove dictionary of opera is , unfortunately , misleading : for all its caution , it attempts to paint the whole period from 1750 to Napoleon , and in doing so unjustifiably reinforces certain impressions we recall from the powerful pens of the Encyclopedists : |
| 24 | Those surfaces you dismiss so readily have hard edges . |
| 25 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 26 | We fail so utterly to reward responsible married women that if we give anything at all to single mothers we appear to be placing a premium — ‘ |
| 27 | The reluctance of the odd electron to engage in bonding appears to be retained in these complexes and the few X-ray structures obtained so far indicate unusual bonding . |
| 28 | Such rulers could defend the social order by force assuredly ; but by replacing the moral authority of the totem-father with the force of arms and the ingenuities of police control they ran the risk of invalidating the purely psychological and religious prohibitions which had supported the old order and had so successfully promoted human social advancement . |
| 29 | That the dominions which he had so laboriously assembled fragmented upon his death ( indeed , his position in Norway had collapsed before it ) is a pointer to Cnut 's abilities , and of how individual , and hence transitory , political achievement could be . |
| 30 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |