Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 2 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 3 | It does take a little time to right a market that has got so badly out of step . ’ |
| 4 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
| 5 | The study , carried out by researchers led by Steve Wilcox , of Cardiff University , shows that council housing transfers to other bodies have been taking place in England on a much larger scale than has happened so far in Scotland . |
| 6 | It seemed to John le Grant that having gone so far , this thought , at least , must be completed . |
| 7 | I think they felt that having survived so far , they were now leading charmed lives and nothing could get them . |
| 8 | ‘ I had insisted all along that we could not return until that was the case and that having waited so long , waiting a little longer would not matter . |
| 9 | The Polytechnic had argued convincingly in the first round that to have done so then would have simply involved the NAB in steering its ‘ service ’ work around . |
| 10 | Course and the bomb gone on the broke the winches and that , and that had gone so far , you know , that timber , that has crushed the timber all , more or less all together . |
| 11 | But in their determination to score , the team lost the tactical balance that had served so well before . |
| 12 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 13 | In 1806 , Napoleon made the most of his victories by imitating the Caesars and decreeing that a great monument should be set up in honour of the Great Army that had done so well . |
| 14 | Suggestion scheme secretary said : ‘ Suggestions are dealt with anonymously by a panel , so they were unaware that had done so well ’ . |
| 15 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 16 | This was worse — to have him apologise for something that had felt so right , so wonderful . |
| 17 | Her beautiful jet hair that had moved so provocatively on the yacht that night hung limp and lifeless at the side of her ashen cheeks . |
| 18 | What happens then is that faith runs up against an awkward question or a scornful dismissal , and suddenly everything that had seemed so unmistakably certain , meaningful , true , collapses like a balloon leaving the remnants of faith limp and deflated . |
| 19 | The water that had seemed so bitingly refreshing only moments ago was already feeling like a strait-jacket of ice tangling around Charity 's speedily numbing limbs . |
| 20 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |
| 21 | He arrived with a Radio Shack hand-held computer phone dialler and a two-speed microcassette recorder for Coleman to use with the code that had worked so successfully before , based on a standard telephone touch-tone pad . |
| 22 | The import of the Mallion lines could be considered the most beneficial thing that had happened so far in the breed . |
| 23 | Gilberto 's next words had shaken Zen more than anything that had happened so far . |
| 24 | It was because all that had happened so often that the baby was coming . |
| 25 | Municipal workers were dousing the remnants of the street fires that had burned so brightly the night before . |
| 26 | The Holy Week that had passed so harshly for the children in Sea House had passed less fearfully in Dynmouth itself . |
| 27 | I do not believe that it will necessarily enhance trade opportunities ; I think that those who have argued that have done so superficially . |
| 28 | So scorpion mating demands , for the first time among the animals that have appeared so far in this history , the ritualised safeguards and placations of courtship . |
| 29 | The Swiss outbreak is puzzling scientists , who can find no evidence that any of the 28 cows that have died so far of BSE have eaten any food originating in another European country , the usual route of infection . |
| 30 | Maidstone chairman John Waugh , who bought the club just three weeks ago , said : ‘ I feel desperate for the people that have worked so hard for the club . |