Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Remarkably — or perhaps not so remarkably — Ungar 's mythic scotophobin had an amino-acid composition rather reminiscent of that of the endorphins and enkephalins .
2 Soon afterwards he left the Wang ( though Zervos tried to tempt him to stay by offering him an extra , wait for it , thirty-five cents an hour ! ) and started working days at the ice-cream parlour on Main Street which belonged , coincidentally , to Celia 's uncle ( or maybe not so coincidentally since , in a town like Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , most people ended up being related sooner or later ) .
3 Although thus easy so far — albeit unexpectedly — he could hardly have guessed at the difficulties ahead .
4 There are lots of screams coming from universities about them being hard done by , being cut back financially and so on so forth .
5 As a result of the invasion , the Iraqui invasion on August the second , many economies , especially in the third world countries developing countries , have been affected a lot by this crisis , not only in terms of erm world trade , the international security , the stability in the world , stability in the international markets and so on so forth , but also with regard to the ruminations from the ex-patriots living in the gulf area in general .
6 It was easy on Parky , not requiring a step-ladder , and not nearly so far to fall once aboard .
7 Viewed from the river bank John of Gaunt 's palatial residence looked magnificent , and even more so tonight with the festivities going on .
8 What we doubt may undermine our faith , and even more so how we doubt or why we fail to deal with doubt .
9 In a recent paper ( Isaacson , 1988 ) I put forward two theoretical constructs , coercive inducements and double conformity , which ‘ individually and even more so together offer powerful explanations and far-reaching insights ’ .
10 You pick who you want but you got ta justify it and er and then so so okay , for arguments sake you pick say , for arguments sake picks .
11 While de Gaulle quietly and sometimes not so quietly chipped away at a NATO defence policy integrated under American leadership , he also sought to assert French autonomy and leadership in Europe .
12 And quite rightly so too , but remember there 's a natural compound that 's simply been synthesised in nature .
13 I am also so excited , so appalled , so outside myself that I can look down at myself , so peculiarly detached , and yet also so vividly held stickily intact within myself that nothing makes sense and the moments do not join together in any comprehensible scale of time .
14 I never thought I would again , and certainly not so soon .
15 He flung the bedclothes back but not nearly so purposefully as heretofore , and he stayed on his back beside Clarissa who begged him not to go shouting just for once , because that was what the gramophone girl wanted , did n't he see ?
16 Instead , he had appeared happy to let her come and go unpestered , although , like Mary , but not yet so acutely , he had been aware of a deeper affinity .
17 They 'd seen it happen before to Gesner 's dancers , but not usually so early in the Season .
18 I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before .
19 Although China and Japan were the central areas for martial arts development over the last 2,000 years , many other countries in southeast Asia developed indigenous fighting systems , each of which , though perhaps not so well known , has produced great masters and thousand-years old traditions .
20 We knew each other before the Expo , though not quite so intimately as now . ’
21 She had been expecting him to call , though not quite so soon as this .
22 ‘ It can still be pretty hazardous , though not quite so bloody . ’
23 The opening of new offices may take place as part of a general expansion of the activities of a firm to additional locations ( though usually never so far away that they can not benefit from the goodwill attaching to headquarters ) or involve streamlining administration by establishing different departments in separate offices .
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