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

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1 Study of this has so far been limited , but several aspects have emerged .
2 The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) .
3 The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) .
4 Still , most of those quoted so far are real proverbs as the place-names of the Shire are real place-names , and they have a similar function : to draw us in , to make connections between experience inside and outside the story .
5 Other costs are usually obtained as standard company percentages of those estimated so far , arriving at labour , materials and overhead or the LMO level .
6 Other costs are usually obtained as standard company percentages of those estimated so far , arriving at labour , materials and overhead or the LMO level .
7 A total of 16 have so far been released , including two women .
8 There 's very little way , bearing in mind that an accident like this happens so very quickly and no doubt traffic was using all 3 carriageways on the northbound , that they could have avoided an impact .
9 If we should wish to tell you how every one behaved himself in this battle , it is a thing which could not be done , for all did so well that no man can relate their feats .
10 Chief executive John Wyatt said he was still hopeful the target of 78 house sales by the end of the year would be achieved , with 41 sold so far .
11 A different approach to management motivation from that considered so far is adopted by the behavioural school , whose members insist that it is inappropriate to regard the company as engaging in maximising behaviour of any kind , be the maximand profits on the one hand , or growth , or some other determinant of management utility , on the other .
12 A project to clean up the Ganges which had started in 1985 had so far cost US$115 million and was due to be completed by the end of 1991 .
13 Schmidt 's study differs from those discussed so far in that it does not quantify network structure at all , but uses the concept to account for differences between speakers which emerge from a quantitative analysis of linguistic data .
14 Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge .
15 If we wish to know why hysteria is now so rare and why modern forms of psychopathology in general seem so often removed from their classical , nineteenth and early twentieth-century manifestations , we may now be in a position to give at least part of the answer .
16 Such an obligation seems to be a factor different in kind from any considered so far .
17 I have little in common with the ideal woman that male artists in particular have so often painted .
18 They are the holders of the Welsh Brewers Cup , the competition for second-class clubs , and are unbeaten in any match so far this season .
19 This dilemma was starkly perceived in June 1950 and answered in a way directly contrary to that anticipated so widely in the spring of 1948 .
20 3–8- The Free Presbytery of Islay met and resolved to constitute themselves a Kirk Session , and on 30–10 did so again , considered nominations and elected Neil McNeill of Laggan and Charles McNeill of Lossit elders .
21 If ever it were possible to agree upon a scheme of regional government , then there might be a basis for regional representation , but attempts at this have so far failed .
22 His arm , at first placed so firmly and impersonally around her , relaxed and instead his hand moved at her waist , caressing its curve .
23 The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill .
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