Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 2 | ‘ But it was n't two teenagers getting married so quickly , it was two grownups , well into their thirties . |
| 3 | The full list of schools to have entered so far is : Harton Comprehensive School , South Shields ; Ian Ramsey School , Hartburn , Stockton ; Sedgefield Community College , Sedgefield ; Boroughbridge High School , Boroughbridge ; Greencroft Comprehensive School , Stanley ; Lanchester St Bede 's Comprehensive School , Lanchester ; Filey School , Filey ; Hermitage Comprehensive School , Chester-le-Street ; Ferryhill Comprehensive School , Ferryhill ; Scalby School , Newby , Scarborough ; Brackenhole School , Middlesbrough ; Hedworthfield Comprehensive School , Jarrow ; Royal Grammar School , Newcastle . |
| 4 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 5 | It was , wrote the best-known and most influential of them , the Abbe de Saint-Pierre , ‘ that vain Idol to which the Nations have Sacrificed so blindly , so fruitlessly , and for so long a Time , so much Blood and Treasure ’ . |
| 6 | One of the reasons why the polytechnics have done so well in the past 21 years is that a clear decision was taken by Governments of both parties to separate funding and quality control . |
| 7 | But there are times when the analogies get stretched so far that the brain starts to lose contact with the original image . |
| 8 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |
| 9 | The Communists had gone so far towards accepting any ally that the Daily Worker expressed hopes that " this may prove to be a new , broad democratic movement , based primarily on the youth of the country " . |
| 10 | How he misses the good old days when he would punt out OTC stock , even though the punters had invested so often in vain . |
| 11 | If Harry 's circumstances had changed so vitally , so too had hers . |
| 12 | The general opinion is that Third World countries have suffered so dreadfully under the debt burden , they would not make the same mistake again . |
| 13 | Contributions which he and his workmates have made so far exceed a splendid £1,576 . |
| 14 | FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM . |
| 15 | Nothing the Conservatives have said so far has caught my fancy , still less warmed my heart ; or , I am glad to say , shocked me to the core . |
| 16 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 17 | Why should the North American glaciers have melted so irregularly ? |
| 18 | ‘ But KITS has expanded so fast we 're permanently short of capital . |
| 19 | Polls suggested that Kennedy 's approval rating amongst his Massachusetts constituents had fallen so dramatically following the episode that he might fail to secure re-election in 1994 . |
| 20 | A few governments have done so quite openly and unpretentiously , by establishing laws of censorship as in Ethiopia , Niger and Cameroon : military regimes have generally had no qualms about controlling the press . |
| 21 | This poverty has become much more visible in recent years because the number of lone-parent families has increased so dramatically . |
| 22 | But none of the larger firms has done so yet , so the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that either they prefer to live dangerously or they still do n't believe that anyone would actually go after them for their personal assets . |
| 23 | However , by then things had gone so far , outside Parliament , that some change was necessary . |
| 24 | Our UNICEF field workers and medical teams have worked so tirelessly in recent years to bring immunisation to the children of the world . |
| 25 | You may be surprised by the success our direct actions have achieved so far . |
| 26 | ‘ We are heartened by the fact producers have responded so quickly to the system . |
| 27 | ‘ I was aware when I came that I was only Warrington 's third choice , after Michael Hagan and Trevor Kissell , so I feel doubly lucky that things have gone so well . ’ |
| 28 | But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers . |
| 29 | But I do n't think things have gone so far between us that |
| 30 | She said : ‘ Things have progressed so quickly since the initial idea last year that we are now seeking bookings a good bit earlier than expected . ’ |