Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hardly surprising , in such a climate , that Israeli ‘ moderates ’ , like their Palestinian counterparts , should now look so earnestly to the third party , the US , as the only possible way of saving Israel from itself . |
| 2 | Between waking and full consciousness I see clearly that I should never have so casually left the inn once I had got there , taking it for granted I could get back quite simply . |
| 3 | I should bloody hope so too ! |
| 4 | You must never diet so quickly that you lose the muscle tissue that gives your body its shape , firmness , and definition . |
| 5 | An l.e.d. requires 2V approximately between its ends to make it work and the output from the stereo would hardly achieve this or might only do so intermittently with loud sounds . |
| 6 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 7 | Indeed , one might even go so far as to say that , were it not for the ‘ discovery ’ of Siberia 's seemingly inexhaustible resources of ‘ soft gold ’ , that is , an abundance of fur-bearing mammals — in particular the highly-prized sable — the Muscovite government would have been without the economic foundation for the growth of its political power . |
| 8 | We might almost go so far as to say that Lyly has embroidered an elaborate garment round the simple idea " Euphues was a young coxcomb " . |
| 9 | Sanitary legislation could only go so far in monitoring personal health ; what was vital was a popular campaign stressing the individual 's own responsibility to observe the rules of health . |
| 10 | He did not see how we could possibly do so under modern conditions . ' |
| 11 | If authoritarian welfare states fulfilled these atavistic needs in the Neolithic , there is every reason to believe that they could still do so today ; and certainly there is much evidence to show that modern police states , far from merely fulfilling some of the same psychological functions , even mimic their Neolithic forerunners in the details of their ritual and symbolism , and certainly seem to evolve their own thorough-going political religions . |
| 12 | It had always distressed him that the West and the Eastern bloc could both budget so generously for what he considered to be the evils of the nuclear industry while millions in the Third World were left wanting for food . |
| 13 | We 'd even go so far as throwing modesty to the wind , and say you wo n't find better value for money holidays or flights anywhere else . |
| 14 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
| 15 | ‘ If we were in funds , I 'd never leave so soon to Christmas unless there was a disaster somewhere . |
| 16 | But one could never speak so directly to a woman . |
| 17 | During the time that your body is trying to make the antibodies against the infection that infection may well spread so rapidly through your body that you become seriously ill , indeed , your life may be threatened . |
| 18 | Last year costs climbed faster than revenues ; this year they may well do so again . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield raised such criticisms in Committee and may well do so again later . |
| 20 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 21 | Not in those days , not for a good Catholic girl like Mary Moxton , who would only lapse so far , and abortion was a lot further . |
| 22 | Floristry comes cheaper , and I knew Gran 's money would only stretch so far . ’ |
| 23 | He would mysteriously shake so badly sometimes that old-timers recommended a large brandy . |
| 24 | He had n't put pen to paper since the day before Martin died , and he doubted if he would ever do so again . |
| 25 | She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again . |
| 26 | But they would slither out again , and they would probably do so quite quickly . |
| 27 | She would never do so again . |
| 28 | He was certain that Scarlet would never behave so irrationally but could not quite rid himself of the image of the breakfast table . |
| 29 | One may indeed go so far as to assert that the Japanese occupation of Indochina was the key issue in the conflict between Japan and the US which led to the attack at Pearl Harbor ; and after what was , initially , a rather lofty approach to the problems of Indochina and Southeast Asian security , America 's final demand that Japan remove its forces from both China and Indochina ( 26 November 1941 ) was met with the equally final Japanese rejection which manifested itself at Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Southeast Asia . |
| 30 | Similarly , a blouse which is purchased from a shop as an alienable commodity may then become so intimately associated with a particular individual that it may not even be borrowed by a sibling , After some time , however , the object may lose this close association , becoming , as jumble , an alienable commodity once again . |