Example sentences of "[be] [adj] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By March this year the price of sorghum , wheat and maize in local markets had been depressed so far that farmers were complaining . |
| 2 | It is important that this potentially very valuable approach safeguards itself so far as possible against misinterpretation : in particular , that the content of religious belief does not really matter , that knowledge of religious tradition is unimportant , and that any opinions and beliefs are acceptable so long as they are sincerely held . |
| 3 | What they have grasped is that the other is a dubiously soft touch who knows she 's been lucky so far and feels guilt-ridden enough to want to put something back into the public melting pot which has been kind enough to approve of her . |
| 4 | If an Act of Parliament says that A ( who may be a minister or a commission or a local authority or an individual ) shall be the person to settle certain specified questions and that there shall be neither appeal to nor review by any other body or person ( including the courts ) , then A's decisions are unchallengeable so long as ( a ) it is A , not another , who decides , ( b ) A decides those specified questions and not others and ( c ) A does not act in bad faith or with similar impropriety . |
| 5 | But make m n no mistake , make no mistake , the situation is still difficult , because the Government imposes conditions and changes are all so often that the resolution of problems is difficult , as you will see from the Director of Education 's statement . |
| 6 | In sum , it is probably time to overcome the politics of standardization — ‘ standards are good so long as you adopt mine ’ . |
| 7 | This seems a paradox but it is not : the system is geared to the needs of the operating units but the units are expendable so long as the system remains intact . |
| 8 | All this will be possible so long as the materials … possess the qualities of being first hand , sensory , within the pupil 's experience , limited in quantity , and making human sense . |
| 9 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 10 | This will be fine so long as I obey the ‘ point cam moving rule ’ while doing this and for every move thereafter . |
| 11 | They believe that it will be fine so long as more money is put into it . |
| 12 | It must be very difficult to be objective so far as the curriculum and level of knowledge of certain subjects are concerned . |
| 13 | that statement is presumed to be exhaustive so far as that matter is concerned . |
| 14 | She 'll be okay so long as no one over-cooks their second shot . |
| 15 | An extra incentive can be useful so long as it does not become a too regular ( relied upon ) habit . |
| 16 | He could make concessions to his allies and all would be well so long as they did not come into conflict with one another . |
| 17 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 18 | The catapult ought to be safe so long as nobody knew its name . |
| 19 | It was remarkably easy because she was n't the sort of woman to be star-struck so easily and quickly . |
| 20 | It need not be accurate so long as it shows the disposition of the rooms — — information which will be of great value later . |
| 21 | There were interviews of which oral evidence was given in the inquiry ordered by the visitor but these were found by Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle to be neutral so far as the question at issue falls to be considered . |
| 22 | We see no reason why the decision should be unanimous so long as there is a majority in favour . |
| 23 | A consequence of this is that women with undiagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes , which is potentially as risky for the pregnancy as insulin dependent diabetes , are lumped together with women who have abnormalities of glucose tolerance that are trivial so far as the index pregnancy is concerned . |
| 24 | ‘ In the first half I thought we played some great stuff , but football is all about what happens in front of goal and we were disappointing so far as that was concerned . ’ |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal held that those transactions were valid so far as they were entered into for the purposes of interest rate risk management and not for trading purposes . |
| 26 | Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years . |
| 27 | Actual attacks on humans are rare so far and more likely to be the work of strays than of truly feral animals . |
| 28 | Whether the victim did believe that immediate violence would be used is immaterial so long as the offender intended to cause the victim to have that belief . |
| 29 | Damp is acceptable so long as the cellar is not in use and so long as it does not rise above the ground floor dpc . |
| 30 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |