Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 2 | That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus . |
| 3 | The last words came so vehemently that she almost choked on them . |
| 4 | In the cases that followed ( ie the disposal of the whole of the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 3 ) ; a conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 4 ) ; and the conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to a third party ( Chapter 5 ) ) , once the husband had disposed of his interest no further tax considerations applied so far as the husband was concerned ( unless there was an element of gift involved in the conveyance not at arm 's length and the husband died within seven years , thus bringing in a charge to inheritance tax ) . |
| 5 | FitzAlan 's gaze immediately flashed to her mouth , his eyes darkening so abruptly that Isabel 's knees went weak . |
| 6 | In some rocks their shells lie so thickly that they form solid bands . |
| 7 | The purpose of looking at Hansard will not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear . |
| 8 | Finally , in rejecting the submission that relaxing the exclusionary rule could amount to the courts questioning proceedings in Parliament contrary to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights , Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ the purpose of looking at Hansard could not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear ’ . |
| 9 | Many of the animals swim so quickly that they do not stay in sight for long . |
| 10 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 11 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |
| 12 | Basil was the exact opposite of those to whom words come so easily that they do a minimum of preparation , and afterwards the listener has difficulty in remembering what has been said . |
| 13 | certain of the elements combine so naturally and with so powerful an effect that we pursue that path of combination as a path in its own right and forget about the problem we are trying to solve . |
| 14 | He could never trust his legs , especially when his shoes pinched so badly that they made his feet tingle and twitch with pins and needles . |
| 15 | As will be seen from the six volumes produced so far and — no doubt — their successors , many ( not all ) of the winning entrants use econometrics to establish that advertising is responsible for a specific sales effect ( or part of it ) . |
| 16 | A fanaticism for Romeo Gigli suggests he 's going to carry on doing things right ; Browns thinks so too and this month the shop is giving him prestigious South Molton Street window space . |
| 17 | They were generally larger than the buildings described so far and were often more elaborate , with hypocausts , painted wall plaster or mosaic flooring . |
| 18 | And even if you did , then who really wants to see tries scored so easily and so readily ? |
| 19 | They are advised that they are potentially highly infectious when the ulcers are present and should refrain from intercourse ( should they cent of patients who develop genital herpes go on to have recurrent attacks , and in only a small proportion of these do the attacks occur so frequently as to disrupt life appreciably . |
| 20 | In the same moment , she started to come , hips rising so fast that she almost bucked him off . |
| 21 | In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] . |
| 22 | The propagandists go so far as to assume , even to assert , that it would not result in any splitting of the party vote : in other words that votes transferred from Dandy or Deadman or Doughty would go to another of these three running-mates and not elsewhere . |
| 23 | Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine . |
| 24 | A local authority that spends less on special educational needs does so either because it has less incidence of such needs or because it is in dereliction of its duties to pupils with those needs . |
| 25 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |
| 26 | The pack also includes general guidance for employers and employees on the prevention of work-related musculo-skeletal disorders , and an assessment checklist designed to help most employers who have to carry out an assessment of their manual handling operations to do so quickly and at minimum cost . |
| 27 | This apparently arose because of the dryness of the site chosen ; an equivalent set left on the ground in much damper conditions disintegrated so quickly that no trace of them or their contents remained after 10 months . |
| 28 | The dynamo equations , including all the boundary conditions regarded so far as plausible , and the equations governing the magnetic field in that part of the mantle that is above the Curie temperature , are invariant under reversal of sign of the magnetic field . |
| 29 | Given that the majority was aligned on grounds which had nothing to do with policy , it was difficult for strangers to vote so publicly and at the same time to hold aloof from an alignment in which they had no personal interest , and which might even have damaged their commercial interests . |
| 30 | MORE THAN 98% OF THOSE WHO DRINK ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DO SO SENSIBLY AND WITHOUT HARM TO THEMSELVES . |