Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 2 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 3 | Thus in choosing between two alternative sets of pleasure one can not necessarily decide which is preferable by an arithmetical calculation , nor could one necessarily do so even if one was omniscient . |
| 4 | Finally , a reminder about circular knitting given in figure 2 will only work so long as there is n't a punchcard in the card reader . |
| 5 | We can only go so far as union negotiators . |
| 6 | The duty to a lawful visitor only extends so long as , and so far as the lawful visitor is making what can reasonably be contemplated as an ordinary and reasonable use of the premises by the lawful visitor for the purposes for which he has been invited . |
| 7 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 8 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership . |
| 11 | True , at death our essence is finally overcome so far as its actualisation in space and time goes , but as long as we live we can go on realizing it in as full a form as circumstances allow . |
| 12 | He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff . |
| 13 | But they always do so anonymously because every playing contract contains a self-signed gag . |
| 14 | A small chorus has applauded such a shift in resources , arguing that prohibition of drugs will always fail so long as Americans remain so determined to get hold of them . |
| 15 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |
| 16 | Fortunately the coughing did n't really matter so far as Tinkerbell was concerned … the light is supposed to flash erratically … but the noise was rather off-putting . |
| 17 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 18 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 19 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 20 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 21 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 22 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
| 23 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 24 | But , as Mr Nearn points out , it is a driver 's car , and motoring journalists have heaped it with praise for many years , one even going so far as to say that your smile ‘ will need surgically removing ’ after driving one . |
| 25 | ‘ For now , it seems , the prince has revealed to Sir Thomas the depth of his regard for you — even going so far as to say that if in due course he may not marry yourself , he will remain unwed . |
| 26 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 27 | Again the immigration people questioned him about his occupation , even going so far as to check the word antiquarian in an English-Spanish dictionary . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |